Lately I've been brushing up on some of my lost math abilities. I found an old college algebra book and noticed all of those complex pages in back, so full of strange shapes and variables they look like a physical burden to the eye, which I've never gotten to. So, in the pursuit of knowledge, I've taken it upon myself to devote some time (almost) everyday bearing towards the inside of that back cover. Learning new skills is something unlike anything else. Different every time. Refreshing. Somewhat akin to riding a roller coaster for the first time, falling off of a bike, or better yet like burning your hand on a stove top for the first time. The difference between these learning experiences and making yourself learn something long winded like math, reading, writing, typing, sciences or otherwise, is how much there is to learn and how quickly it happens. We all understand why a person learns not to touch a hot stove very quickly after doing so. So I'm thinking, wouldn't it be nice to trick your brain into learning the latter mentioned as if they were fire on a stove top? Could we learn that life is painful without them in order to more easily accept new ideas like these and commit them to memory? I think probably that it is possible, but not without conjuring some bad dreams and psychiatry bills later on in life. All the same though, that would be stellar.

Laurie

A nice story from another time and place. Laurie.

And, furthermore:

An essay on laziness.

Awwww...

SO emo

Makes me tear up a little...

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Answer the question already...

This is taken directly from this page here, and I think it hit the mark.

I think that it must have been extremely frustrating for the moderator to continually ask questions that just plain don't ever get answered, and then get overlooked altogether. I've watched both debates so far, and my impression so far is this: of the four people who have been on stage, Obama has been to the only one to give direct answers the questions asked by the moderator, at least 80% to 90% of the time. Sure, each one has had his or her moment of truth, but for the most part these people have treated this as nothing more than a moment in the spotlight, as if the man or woman standing in front of them asking questions was only a formality. If Sarah Palin was so concerned with the straight talk that the american people want, she would have answered the questions that the american people have asked of her. My biggest beef, and I realize that this is just how politicin' works, is that the response to most questions directed at person a are constantly redirected to be accusations about person b without ever answering the question. I should have known though, when Sarah got on stage and changed the rules right away. She said right in the beginning that she was not going to answer the questions asked of her by the moderator. Well that's great, cause then she can read a story to the people watching the debates, that which has been written for her on the note cards.
At least we know she can read...


-Joe

Hooray!

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Yippee! The debate rages on! How very American of John to decide that debating as a running Presidential candidate was a better idea than contributing nothing to a room full of people who weren't expecting him to show up. I'm proud of him.
And I'm excited to watch.

Speaking of being a United States citizen:



I witnessed this man yesterday at a gas station in downtown St. Paul. This proud American took the words "gas station safety" and replaced them with comedy, dangerous, and patriotism(because it gave me such a huge feeling of pride for my country to watch him do this, not that this doesn't happen in other countries). He's a badass. When I arrived I watched this man get out of his car with a lit cigarette in his mouth, step right up to the pump and proceed to grab the gas nozzle, which he promptly stretched over to the far side of his car where the gas cap was located. It didn't reach, the first time. This is where I snapped the picture, hoping that if he blew us up, or my phone blew us up, somebody would have picture evidence and think that they know who to blame. Luckily, when he discovered it didn't reach, his car was still running, so he set the nozzle down on the ground and shimmied his car just a little bit closer as you can see here. By the time I finished filling my own car, our antagonist was on his cell phone, car still running. Clearly this man knows better than everyone else since the gas station didn't blow up, and if I know anything about science: that right there is foolproof evidence. I know, I know, I grabbed my cell phone while I was at the pump, I guess it was just a dangerous day there at that gas station. But I'd rather like to think that I was just a small contributor to that danger.

Has everyone seen this yet? Pretty fun to watch, and it makes me glad those dolphins can find something fun for themselves AND the crowd all by themselves.

Also: in case you haven't seen or heard of it: Letterman was upset over some political issues.