Wed 29 November 2006 8:55 PM
scat
Thou hast made me so sore afeared
that by the way as I ran before thee
I did shite
three
great turds.
Wed 29 November 2006 3:43 PM
Jumping the Gun
Let me beat all the godfuckers to telling you exactly how you're supposed to think about the holidays season.
Sol Invictus is the Reason for the Season:
Mon 27 November 2006 8:12 PM
scĪtan
I am a thegn of Saxon Britain,
A Senior Member of the Witan.
And, when the Witan is a-sittin',
If I with U.B.M.* am smitten,
There is a privy i can sit in,
And do my bit of shit for Britain.
And, since I know full well what's fittin',
I've never shat --- I've always sciten.
* urgent bowel movement
Sun 26 November 2006 10:04 PM
GTrends
Could the seemingly coincident spikes in 'infinite' and 'hasselhoff' be due to the infinite crotch gif?
Tue 21 November 2006 4:34 PM
w00t
I'm not sure what his dataset is.
Tue 14 November 2006 8:39 PM
Query
Are the volume controls on head units in the UK predominantly on the right side?
Tue 14 November 2006 10:44 AM
Monkeys
Nietzsche was just another monkey.
Mon 13 November 2006 12:24 AM
Identity
Identity seems to be a function of position and time. That is, all 'things' with the same s(t) function possess the same identity. While a given rock is sitting there, no other rocks can take that spot. The rock is that rock, and none of the other rocks around are the same rock because they are not 'there' 'now'.
Or another example to try to blur the lines.
Class Thing
Property X as Double
Property Y as Double
End Class
Public Sub Main()
dim obj1 as Thing
dim obj2 as Thing
set obj1 = New Thing
with obj1
.x = cdbl(1)
.y = cdbl(1)
end with
set obj2 = New Thing
with obj2
.x = Cdbl(1)
.y = Cdbl(1)
end with
msgbox "at this point, the two objects are indistinguishable."
End Sub
However, if you look at a low enough level, obj1 is a pattern of
electricity in one area of physical memory and obj2 is the same pattern but
in a different area of physical memory. obj1 and obj2 each have their own
identity because they physically occupy separate points in space-time.
Even though 2 things may present the same pattern, because of their different s(t) curves, they have the potential to deviate from one another, that is, to evolve along their own separate histories.
Of course, the pattern is the really important part when it comes to personal identity. If the rock gets buried deep into the crust of the earth and is transformed into quartz, it's probably not going to be considered the same rock afterwards. However, human beings rearrange and regenerate the matter making up their self continuously, and yet we consider beowulft2 to be the same, in some way that everyone easily understands, but cannot easily explicate, as beowulft1. It's not so much the matter that is traveling along "beowulf's" s(t) curve that matters as it is the particular pattern of that changing matter - information.
I become fatter or thinner and my skin changes tone along with the color and pattern of my hair. Not only that, but my thoughts and opinions and fundamental assumptions about reality change over time, but in some sense I'm still me - everyone agrees about that. So, even though this pattern and the matter it's made of changes over time, there's some core to the pattern that persists (or does it? is persistent identity a necessary illusion that the pattern must maintain about itself?). If this "core" is real, what is it? It's not genetics exactly because identical twins share the same genome. It has to be the accumulated experiences from traveling a unique s(t) function. Twins have separate histories and perspectives and therefore must have separate identities - or maybe saying they have separate histories and perspectives is the same thing as saying they have separate identities.
Does this hold up under scrutiny, though? I don't think so, particularly at the level influenced by quantum mechanics. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle holds that conjugate variables can only be known to inverse levels of accuracy. As position is more accurately measured momentum or velocity measurements are less accurate. Wave-Particle duality. The wave function for two particles can overlap for certain probabilities. As a consequence it becomes impossible to know (on a small enough scale) whether two particles share the same s(t) curve. Actually, it becomes unclear whether there's such a thing as an s(t) curve. The Pauli exclusion probably has something to say about identity as well, but I don't really understand the Pauli exclusion principle beyond some vague recollections about electrons; s, p, d, and f "shells"; and quantum number tables. Besides, I'm not made up of bosons.Tue 7 November 2006 10:23 PM
Reverend Beat-Man
Voodoo Rhythm Records Movie Trailer - feat. Rev. Beat-Man and the Rev's video for "Get on your knees".
Fri 3 November 2006 10:46 PM
Datei
As I was sitting on my front porch, I lamented the fact that I hadn't had the foresight to bring a watch and a piece of paper to mark the time of arrival and number of trick-or-treaters that stopped by my house.
If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge.
Fri 3 November 2006 10:18 PM
I Found Out
i tol' you befo'
stay away from my do'
don't give me that brother, brother, brother, blather
them freaks on the phone
won't leave me alone
don't give me that brother, brother, brother, blather
nooooooooooooooooooooo!
I
I Found Out
I
I Found Out
now that i've shown
just, what i've been through
don't take nobody's word
for what you can do
there ain't no jesus
gonna come out the sky!
now that i found out
i know i can cry!
I
I Found Out
I
I Found Out
some of you sitting there
wi' your cock in your hand
don't get you nowhere
don't make you a man
i heard something 'bout
my ma and my pa
they didn't want me, so they made me a star!
I
I Found Out
I
I Found Out
ol' harry kicked some ass
got nothin' on you
just keep you crazy
with nothin' to do
keep you occ-o-pied
with pie in the sky
there ain't no guru who can see through your eyes!
I
I Found Out
I
I Found Out
seen it through junkies
i've been through it all
i've seeked the religion from jesus to paul
don't let them fool you
with dope and cocaine
they do you no harm
so feel your own pain!
I
I Found Out
I
Found This Out
I
I Found Out
Out!
Out!
Out!
Ooooooooooooooooout!
Out!
Out!
Out!
Out!
I Found Out
I Found Out
I Found Out!
I Found Out!
I Found Out!
I Found Out!
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Found Out!
Out!
Out!
Out!
Out!
Thu 2 November 2006 12:50 PM
Roxanne
Wed 1 November 2006 1:13 PM
Firmicutes
Sulfate reducing bacteria that create waste usable by other organisms in a deep subsurface, radioactive environment. This is way cool.
"In a way, Firmicutes serve the same function as photosynthetic organisms, such as plankton and trees at Earth's surface, that capture sunlight energy ultimately to the benefit of everything and everyone else. In the deep subsurface case, Firmicutes species are the producers, capturing the energy of radiation-borne hydrogen gas to support microbial communities."
Wed 1 November 2006 9:48 AM
he said slot
Hey, baby. That's a nice 5.25" slot you got.
Wed 1 November 2006 9:41 AM
query
How can Firefox 2.0 be utilizing 97% CPU and over 300MB of memory (physical + virtual) and still take 2.5 seconds to display a tab after I click it?
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