MightyBobX Quotage

there's nothing that looks like more fun than having herpes; just take a look at herpes medication commercials. those people with herpes are having way more fun than i ever did.

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -Thomas Jefferson

And then there were six...

So hot

Anyway, dr. ridpath from the ARI spoke today at ucla on the morality of capitalism. it's not his conclusions and main points that were so impressive; it's how amazingly he gives them and his methods for explaining them. it's hard to appreciate such things when you don't try to do it yourself, but explaining really difficult topics in epistemology and morality is an amazing thing when done well. pat and corey said they were kind of bored since they'd heard it before, but i thought it was spectacular because i've treid so often myself to really understand it the way the objectivism guys do. it was fantastic.

Awesome stuff site. I want to have its babies.

goldenpants78: monotonic sounds like it should be a drink
goldenpants78: like, you mix monotonic and bounded and you get a convergent sequence of drunk people
MightyBobX: "the night will only get better"
goldenpants78: and one brand of monotonic could be "supremum"
MightyBobX: "Supremum: there's nothing greater... by definition"

there have been some rather erroneous conclusions made.
first of all, learn to not read between the lines. i say what i say, and mean what i mean. if i say i had a great weekend, then i had a great weekend. it doesn't mean i'm "starry eyed" or "swept off my feet", it means i had a good time. to add more to what i said than what i said is to inject your own feelings into my writing, which is, of course, silly.
secondly, keep in mind context: this is a blog, not a best-selling memoir. my goal is not to write eloquent descriptions of my life that truly let you empathize with my goings on; my goal is to write brief descriptions of what i do with mild commentary so that, if interested, you can then go "hey chad, you did this thing, let me ask about it". thus only mild and yes, even possibly repetitive descriptions are appropriate to such media, and mean only that if you want to know more than things were "good" or "great", you can ask, rather than assume that's all i have to say on the subject.
thirdly, there are apparently some bizarre views of sexuality floating around. guys do more than fart and fight, girls do more than hair and gossip. massages and fancy skin treatments are anything but unmasculine, and if you try and find any objective reason to the contrary, you'll find yourself coming up empty handed. such things are objectively beneficial to human health, male or female. the fact that girls may be typically more into such things than men is also of no consequence: i'm sure girls eat more salads than men do, but clearly eating such things is not a sign of femininity

ah, a fresly vacuumed apartment

Ah, crazy good weekend. A couple weeks ago Michelle told me to save this weekend as completely booked, but didn't tell me what was up. She just gradually hinted that we'd be going somewhere, and little other clues. It turned out she reserved the weekend at a hotel in santa barbara, and we had a super awesome time. We got there late friday afternoon, and she'd gotten us roller blades, so we skated up and down the beach, which was really nice. Then we went to a fancy italian dinner and went drinking, which was pretty fun too. Saturday morning, went to a cool breakfast place, then we kind of wanted to go to a spa but couldn't find one with hot baths. we went up to the hills and hiked around in the botanical gardens, which was really cool, then we went back to the beach. it was kind of windy, so we dug a hole and cuddled up in it (so cute!) then we did manage to find a hotbaths place, and we had the best bath anyone in the world has ever had. fancy lights and soaps and salts and things... felt super good. sunday morning we did the other part of her gift, which was a full-body massage at a really nice massage parlor. it was soooo good. hehe, i'm pretty sure part of their "aroma therapy" involved nitrous oxide. but it felt amazing. I want one of those every week. And michelle was super nice and sweet all weekend, and we had a super-great time. best weekend ev4r.

goldenpants78: i have termed this phenomenon "the jellyfish controversy"
goldenpants78: and it has something to do with the inverse of the linearly independent column vectors of a matrix
goldenpants78: or, that's what the little controversial-jellyfish drawing on my homework claims
DvsGrimReaper713: hehe
DvsGrimReaper713: hows it controversial
goldenpants78: cuz fuzzy thinks its not a jellyfish
goldenpants78: and has touted such heresy on many recent occasions
goldenpants78: of course, the jellyfish heresy (to which it shall now be referred) is really a device to console myself on how sore my hand is from mastur---i mean writing out 12 pages of linear algebra homework
DvsGrimReaper713: you and your ... "linear algebra homework"...bating

hehe, adult swim censored futurama's "sweet zombie jesus"

goldenpants78: :(((
DrBoskoniFuzz: You stupid bastard.
goldenpants78: what
goldenpants78: it's a sad jellyfish
DrBoskoniFuzz: That is not a jellyfish.
goldenpants78: tell that to him
DrBoskoniFuzz is away at 8:31:27 PM.
goldenpants78: fhfhfhfhuzhhhyyyyy
goldenpants78: whyryryryryyy do you think im nrnrnrnroooot a jellyfhfhfhhhhish

haha, simpsons just totally zinged seth mcfarlane. the italian police were looking up images of various crimes; and they flip to a picture of peter griffin, and it says "plagarismo", then to one of american dad with "plagarismo de plagarismo"

Hehe, michelle and i went to some italian restaurant in westwood, Mio Babbage. the food's ok, but they put us in a corner, the waiter came by once, just to take our order. we were visited two more times, when the busboy brought our drinks and our food. he forgot the wine i ordered, and my salad was late. needless to say, there was no tip. he did however provide the wine gratis when he realized he forgot it, so i wasn't planning on holding a grudge against the place. so michelle and i leave and start walking towards the movie store. about 2 blocks later, we here someone running behind us, and it's the waiter. he's like "hey, you forgot to leave a tip... was there something wrong with the service?" and we're like "yeah, there was" and start to list the reasons, and he just scoffs, shakes his head, and walks away, going "where you from, man? that's just rude". which is of course why i dont' like tipping at all; it doesn't act as an incentive, because everyone just expects it. they think it's part of the price. if you want it to be in the price, just put it in there. anyway, that place is dumb. michelle and i couldn't stop laughing at him as he walked away.

saw dukes of hazzard. it wasn't very funny, but now i know the basic characters and stuff. hehe, one super funny thing though. farva from supertroopers is in it, and he was ok; but later on, they're driving around a university and get pulled over by the campus police, and it's the guys from super troopers. and they say exactly teh same lines to the duke boys as they did to the reefer kids in the beginning of supertroopers. it was so goddamn funny. just to hear him say "sweet mother of god" again.

also saw corpse bride. very mixed feelings. the idea is clearly my thing; the romance with the undead thing just does it for some reason. and the tim burton style on the two ladies was great, and a lot of the scenery was really fantastic. but so much of it was either really bad or just a big dissapointment. most of the songs were terrible; they were stupid shit about where they were going or stupid expositional things; very little emotional character development. the bride's song with the spider and worm is a good example: parts of it were really good, where she was singing about herself and about the way she felt about the situation; the parts with the spider/worm singing were dumb. just tons of poor word choice and very bad mood building. nbx did way, way better in terms of that. the actual story was pretty decent, though the ending didn't make sense and kind of killed it (rof rof). the whole thing i was torn between how good some of it was and how lame the rest was. i still wanna buy it, maybe it'll grow on me more

tallbladeofgrass:
e^x and a constant are walking down the street together when the constant sees a differential operator coming their way. He starts to run away, and e^x asks "Why are you running away?" The constant answers "That's a differential operator. If it acts on me, I disappear." e^x says "I'm e^x, I don't have anything to worry about." and keeps on walking. When he reaches the differential operator, he says "Hi, I'm e^x."

The differential operator responds, "Hi, I'm d/dy"