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Random Chat / Re: Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog
« on: July 21, 2008, 05:47:17 PM »
Man, it was SO AWESOME.
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Random Chat / Re: Lame Replies Thread, With A Vengeance
« on: July 06, 2008, 01:28:39 AM »God, I ate so much pizza at work today. I had six slices. SIX. in a 6-hour period. Christ, I don't normally eat that much.Well, shit, I'd
They ordered about 30 pizzas in a few hour intervals over the course of today and again tomorrow as an incentive to get people to work extra hours this weekend.
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Random Chat / Re: Drugs, Alcohol, etc.
« on: July 04, 2008, 02:34:41 PM »Do you know what a high dose of caffeine feels like? after a certain point, it feels different than the regular awake and energetic and such feelings you usually get.Cool, but I've never had that much caffeine >=(
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Random Chat / Re: Drugs, Alcohol, etc.
« on: July 04, 2008, 09:44:33 AM »sounds like caffeine. If you drink caffeine, or ate lots of sugar, this usually can happen. Both the comedown from the caffeine and insulin have been known to me to do this, I'm suspecting this to be the cause. While I don't doubt the existence of water fountain drug-terrorists, it seems unlikely. I'd definitely try to remember what you had eaten that day.But the thing is that I rarely ever drink soda or coffee, and one or two sodas has never made me go fucking crazy. And it was just a weird time to start feeling like that y'know? So that's why I am confused and asking silly questions.
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Random Chat / Re: Drugs, Alcohol, etc.
« on: July 02, 2008, 10:58:49 PM »
oh hi thread that I haven't posted in yet
Jesus is ashamed of all of you you're all going to hell for doing drukqs etc. etc. etc.
P.S. do you think it'd be possible to somehow get some sort of drug on a water fountain faucet and then take some of it when you drink from the fountain because one time during math class and a bit after when I got home (math class is my last period) my hands were suspiciously jittery like I had absolutely no control of them. I'd just think of something to write and it was like somebody else was controlling what I wrote. I had to focus to write somewhat legibly. The sensation was extremely unfamiliar to me, having only done pot once and that was oh six months ago; this was a month and a half ago.
P.S. on second thought it's probably a really stupid question :< but it was weird as hell.
Jesus is ashamed of all of you you're all going to hell for doing drukqs etc. etc. etc.
P.S. do you think it'd be possible to somehow get some sort of drug on a water fountain faucet and then take some of it when you drink from the fountain because one time during math class and a bit after when I got home (math class is my last period) my hands were suspiciously jittery like I had absolutely no control of them. I'd just think of something to write and it was like somebody else was controlling what I wrote. I had to focus to write somewhat legibly. The sensation was extremely unfamiliar to me, having only done pot once and that was oh six months ago; this was a month and a half ago.
P.S. on second thought it's probably a really stupid question :< but it was weird as hell.
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Random Chat / Re: Stuff that fries your potatoes with olive oil of HAPPY.
« on: July 02, 2008, 10:49:01 PM »My problem is vocabulary. I can learn basic grammar (enough to read the more complex sentences as well) very quickly, however, especially in a language such as Japanese, learning the vocabulary is a big stepping stone. In the case of Japanese, you have to deal with learning the kanji, as well as learning the pronunciation.Yeah, same here. Grammar comes really easily and vocabulary is a bitch. I was annoyed by how quickly my classmates forgot the conjugation of some verbs in two different tenses after a three week tangent considering we spent oh who knows how long on it beforehand. But it seems like everybody else has no problems with vocabulary, while I have to study it and use the worst tricks ever to remember the words (e.g. peinarse means to comb... I remember that because it's a "pein" in my "arse" to get the knots out) (not that those tricks aren't totally amazing... but I just feel like it should come more naturally for me).
Now it's definitely harder to learn a kanji AND the normal, phonetic word on top of that, but as far as my experience goes, learning definitions for kanji is pretty easy. I know quite a few and I don't even actually care for Japanese; I just have Rikaichan in my browser and I've taken note of a lot of kanji definitions. I could probably write approx. 20 kanji with their English definitions (excluding numbers rofl that's cheating). But that might just be how I learn things.
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Random Chat / Re: Stuff that fries your potatoes with olive oil of HAPPY.
« on: July 02, 2008, 10:52:43 AM »
The only reason I'd ever want to learn French is to be able to read the text on my Erik Satie sheet music and Les Miserables in their original forms.
Japanese wa for otakus desu lol kawaii desu ne.
Spanish is where it's at for foreign languages.
Oh and German simply because TimJing is learning German.
But mainly Spanish. Second most useful language ever if you're American. (Hey, guess what's first most useful!)
As for having classes... that's fine, but having a book for Spanish is also lovely. And I also have Pimsleur audiotapes which are awesome as fuck. Sorry if you disagree but I really like the "infer how it works" method. It really helps me learn how to truly manipulate the language. Also, I shat bricks when I learned that castellano is another way of saying Spanish in Spanish.
Also maybe one of the reasons why you could never get the hang of a language is because you never stuck strictly to one and persevered. I make sure to study Spanish at least 15 minutes every day on my own. I've been stepping it up a bit more now that I'm on summer vacation, e.g. whenever I walk to get lunch I make sure to go to a specific pizza place far away from my house so I can listen to (almost) two Pimsleur lessons throughout the round trip.
Japanese wa for otakus desu lol kawaii desu ne.
Spanish is where it's at for foreign languages.
Oh and German simply because TimJing is learning German.
But mainly Spanish. Second most useful language ever if you're American. (Hey, guess what's first most useful!)
As for having classes... that's fine, but having a book for Spanish is also lovely. And I also have Pimsleur audiotapes which are awesome as fuck. Sorry if you disagree but I really like the "infer how it works" method. It really helps me learn how to truly manipulate the language. Also, I shat bricks when I learned that castellano is another way of saying Spanish in Spanish.
Also maybe one of the reasons why you could never get the hang of a language is because you never stuck strictly to one and persevered. I make sure to study Spanish at least 15 minutes every day on my own. I've been stepping it up a bit more now that I'm on summer vacation, e.g. whenever I walk to get lunch I make sure to go to a specific pizza place far away from my house so I can listen to (almost) two Pimsleur lessons throughout the round trip.
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Random Chat / Re: Four day at the wheel of a hydrogen powered car
« on: June 29, 2008, 10:44:22 AM »Except that water is cheap as fuck, and makes the oil companies nothing. A water powered car would be the end of oil companies, since water needs next to no processing for something like that. Sure, car companies would make a killing, but it would completely upset the economy. The price of oil would drop like a rock, and instead water would become expensive. (At least, for any motor that would consume the water)Nobody cares about the economy when they make a decision to $$$.
People are afraid of change, and large companies are much more afraid of change than single people are. Just look a the RIAA/Record companies. They are completely outmoded and totally unnecessary now, and they are fighting like mad to keep in the game, simply because they are greedy. Oil companies are much greedier, and have a lot more lobbying power, too, which means anything that would fuck up the oil economy like a water powered car would be VERY quickly snuffed out/slowed down.Uh no I don't really think a motherfucking water powered car could get the could shoulder if it were feasible in any way.
The car industry isn't that oligopolistic. There are plenty of individual firms ready to rise up when they get their shit together. Especially with people hating gas now that it's expensive.
Edit:
Okay so basically here's a link that totally dispels this sham for what it is:
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1769/69/
It basically goes over what I did before (second law of thermodynamics, chemistry, etc.)
Some people are so convinced that there's a solution and that there has to be a way and that the oil companies are so fucking evil* that you'd insist that this crap is real.
*well they are, but that doesn't have that much to do with car manufacturing and I'm sure an individual oil company would love to be the first to get their hands on this stuff and move from oligopoly status to monopoly status, so yeah.
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Random Chat / Re: Four day at the wheel of a hydrogen powered car
« on: June 29, 2008, 08:47:31 AM »Except of course that the people who make gas and have a strangle hold on the industries related to or relying on gas smother stuff like that pretty quickly anyway.No not really if this were really feasible the car companies would fucking shit themselves to try to make the first water-powered car. Dude, who the fuck doesn't want a water-powered car? People would pay so much for that shit, and you could get so much government funding for it.
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Introductions / Re: Happy, TimJing
« on: June 29, 2008, 08:43:58 AM »
You still probably wouldn't recognize if I told you "lordcarbo" so I'll just say I'm new.
Hai.
Hai.
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Random Chat / Re: Drugs, Alcohol, etc.
« on: June 29, 2008, 02:47:39 AM »That "Montana Meth Project" picture is kinda funny just for the fact that it's almost implying that prostitution is okay as long as you're getting reasonably compensated.Hey, man, I have no problem with that. Prostitutes need money, too. And some of us really need sex.
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Random Chat / Re: Four day at the wheel of a hydrogen powered car
« on: June 29, 2008, 02:38:45 AM »
Sagan's simple observation is a step in the right direction, but for those who rely on actual science over signaling and probability, then don't fret (let's not underestimate the power of those tools though). From a chemical and thermodynamic perspective, a water-powered car sounds suspicious.
Although I've honestly never taken chem, I'm pretty sure that
2H2 + 02 -> Energy + 2H20
If I'm right, which I'm pretty sure I am, then
Energy + 2H20 -> 2H2 + 02
Worse still is when you think you can start with H20 and end with H20 and still make energy out of that. I've actually seen some people claim that on stupid nonsensical YouTube videos: "oh look it runs on water blah blah blah and look it emits water, too." What the fuck?
Edit: Also Sagan links to Wikipedia which explains it. See I didn't know it was called electrolysis or any of that crap. Good to know.
Although I've honestly never taken chem, I'm pretty sure that
2H2 + 02 -> Energy + 2H20
If I'm right, which I'm pretty sure I am, then
Energy + 2H20 -> 2H2 + 02
Worse still is when you think you can start with H20 and end with H20 and still make energy out of that. I've actually seen some people claim that on stupid nonsensical YouTube videos: "oh look it runs on water blah blah blah and look it emits water, too." What the fuck?
Edit: Also Sagan links to Wikipedia which explains it. See I didn't know it was called electrolysis or any of that crap. Good to know.
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