December 2010
Pictures: Loong Con cave system in Vietnam →
Today has really just sucked
I am in a terrible mood toward some people right now. Then cleaning all day. Hopefully kids coming over will improve things.
Today
was such an excellent day. Got to see Liza, then read my book, and then we went to see CoN: Voyage of the Dawn Treader which turned out much better than the book had been for the most part (I always struggled with not getting bored with it for some reason). Then went to dinner at Pi and made another gloriously delicious pizza with the lady. Took a turn on the ferris wheel which was a blast, then...
Found APUSH winter assignment
Only 1240 words, was not as bad as everybody is making it sound like! =D
Fitness to Survive in the Wild →
Mentioned it, she laughed it off. Successs
I am loving all of this that Dylan is posting tonight
Music
One of the greatest things about music for me is associating particular bands/songs with specific memories. It’s usually a completely subconscious process, but when I hear a song months later, one memory or another will always come to mind. I think as far as bands go, “The Academy Is…” and “We The Kings” have the strongest associations. Though there is a number...
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Scientists are so badass
Reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. He is currently describing the lengths that were went to in order to obtain empirical data supporting Newton’s theories. It is all super legit stuff, for example most of Western Europe banded together and sent their scientists out to gather information on Venus that could be used to calculate the distance to the sun, and people...
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Y U NO LET ME APPLY ITALICS TO QUOTES???
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“The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was...”
– Hans Christian von Bayer, Taming the Atom
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“Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
God said, let Newton be! and...”
– Alexander Pope
ToK Presentations: WikiLeaks
Julian Assange interview - FROST OVER THE WORLD - Al Jazeera English
Why I’m Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange | MichaelMoore.com
A sad day for the US if the Espionage Act is used against WikiLeaks | Stephen M Kohn | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Assange’s hero status means keepers of secrets have lost - Herald Scotland | Comment | Ian Bell
WikiLeaks and Assange arrest a testing...
“Courage is contagious”
– WikiLeaks’ slogan
Al-Jazeera's Top 10 Stories of the Year. A good... →
Common Misconceptions about Islam →
Although Cracked usually has their facts straight, I try not to cite them too much. However, this article is more of a humorous attitude against common anti-Islamic propaganda, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
We could be heroessssss
Just for one day
Listen
Bees are crazy →
Why I am IB →
Human Migration Patterns from our "Eden" →
Cookies, baby hole and nerdiness all night. Then running I guess. Whatever
Two
entirely different philosophies. It is amazing that it still generally works so well
