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Here are some pictures of my aunt and uncle’s dogs. I just met them this weekend. There are more pictures of galaxy because she looked at the camera more often. Also, she’s prettier than Beowolf, and due to her husky genes she reminds me of Bandit (RIP).


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Eve Muses While Writing Essays

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Here’s an idea: thought’s main purpose is to make sense of our environment in order to survive in it and make more humans, right? Which is why there’s no real thought inside the womb; it isn’t needed to avert death. You’ve got everything you need: umbilical sustenance, amniotic protection, big-screen TV. So this would logically mean that humans who remain in the womb throughout their lives wouldn’t develop thought because it wouldn’t be necessary. (They’d be moved into larger wombs according to growth, of course, like gardeners change plant pots.)

If this is the case, then what’s up with The Matrix? They wouldn’t have needed it for more than a generation before they could just harvest thoughtless babies and scrap the illusion program. Would the prophecized freedom fighters ever be found? Or would Morpheus become just as non-badass as his stimulus-free kin? Would there still be a “One” to save us all? And most importantly, would there still be sweaty underground dance orgies?

A world without these things is a frightening thought, but at least we’re still of the generation that has the capacity to consider them. Our children, on the other hand… *ominous music*

Side note: What is up with The Meatrix?

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My response to The Atheist Test

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The Atheist Test is an attack on the theory of evolution, and misuses logic terribly. One of the arguments in the tract is that evolution cannot explain the banana’s design, and yet the evidence for this is even more ridiculous than its big bang analogy. There is no way to respond to it, except with the following.

Note that your mom:

  1. Is shaped for the human hand
  2. Has a non-slip surface
  3. Has outward indicators of inward content
  4. Has a tab for removal of wrapper
  5. Is perforated on wrapper
  6. Has a bio-degradable wrapper
  7. Is shaped for the human mouth
  8. Has a point at the top for ease of entry
  9. Is pleasing to the taste buds
  10. Is curved towards the face to make the eating process easy
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Anyone up for a game of internet risk?

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Litter

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Kitty Litter?

Industrial Solvent?
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For the record…

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I’ve finished my Astrophysics assignment, and studied for my exam today. All I have to do is write it. In the meantime, I should be allowed to blog, right? So, for the record:

You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?

Inothernews…

  • I was checking out the Blogathon website, because I’d forgotten when it was and I was worried I’d miss it. Lo and behold, the next one isn’t till 2005!! Shashi, this is awful! What will we do?? Obviously, a grassroots blogathon must be organized.
  • Darren Barefoot has put out a call for bloggers, both n00b and otherwise.
  • The Disembodied Brain talks about Hellboy.
  • It’s amazing what certain fonts can bring to mind. Take Frutiger, for example. It reminds me of German airports. Turns out it was created in 1968 for an airport in Paris, so I wasn’t that far off. *Sigh* This font makes me want to return to Europe.
  • Check out these album covers redrawn from memory in MS Paint. They’re hilariously terrible. For example: In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson and Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden. And for Tavis… (Cheers, Accordion Guy)
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How cool a name is Quaoar?

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I think Quaoar might replace Extopalopaketl as the name I’m going to give to my first-born. Wouldn’t you love to be named after a planetoid? No? Well, it’s better than Dweezil.

A new planetoid has been found that’s even further than Quaoar. To paraphrase the report:

A frigid, planet-like body about three-quarters the size of Pluto is thought to be the most distant object known in our solar system, NASA said Monday. The shiny, reddish object is located three times farther away than our furthest planet. Astronomers said the sun appears so small from that distance that you could completely block it out with the head of a pin. The object has been unofficially named Sedna after the Inuit goddess credited in tribal myths with creating the sea creatures of the Arctic. The formal designation for Sedna is 2003VB12.

Sedna: Coolest Place in the Solar System. I would have called it Vogon. Or hey, could we have pulled out Vulcan again?

There are two cool things about this post:

  1. There’s already an entry about this planetoid in Wikipedia. Instant information! The Uncle Ben’s of encyclopaedias.
  2. While trying to find a Wiki entry for Dweezil Zappa I discovered that, coincidentally, there is an asteroid named after his father called (3834) Zappafrank. I can’t find out anything about this guy that isn’t cool. What we need now is a Jay-Zappa remix. They did it with Weezer, why not the Great One? (Cheers, Richard.)
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