So I finally learned the algorithms to solve a rubik's cube today - it is pretty easy, only took me a day to learn them, and I can finish a cube in sub-three minutes. I won't consider it much of an accomplishment until I can get below the one minute marker.
BTW, supergoober, thanks for the reminder on The Hospital... I had forgotten about that (don't worry, I still remember how it ends, just forgot to finish writing it). Incidentally, I am in a better mood now - four days averaging less than two hours of sleep a night does some strange things to your mind - lets just say the gun barrel joke came from a serious curiousity and leave it at that :)
But I got five hours of sleep last night and I feel much better. Though the good thing about sleep disorders is that you do burn more calories being awake - I did nothing different in the past four days (except not sleep) and lost five pounds from the anxiety - what a perfect crash diet - I wonder if I could sell it to Hollywood model/actress types?
Well, that's it for right now, I might do a more serious one tomorrow, if I finish writing my practice final exams for my classes and posting them on my website in a timely fashion - they dont have the final until december 19th, but I figure that they can have more time to study this way.
Maybe one of these days, I will just right a post listing a bunch of hotbutton issues and topics, but never actually discuss them, and see how many hits I get from people who just monitor this stuff because they have little else to do... seems like fun, huh?
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About Me
- theprofessor
- What is there to know? I teach math and science, I write, I waste time spewing stuff into the vast void of the internet that no one is ever going to read. Then I practice martial arts and play video games and RPGs (the pencil and paper kind). All my remaining time I devote to my wife, who is gracious enough to put up with me.
Common Abbreviations and Their Definitions
BW - a shortening of the quote, "Brevity is the soul of Wit", I use this whenever I have more to say on a topic, but doing so just becomes a one-sided rant, so I am just stopping at that point. I may take up the point later, after someone contributes a point that is valid, or a point that needs countering, but for the time being, it stops where the BW is, so that I don't get excessively boring or one-sided (common online sins).
nCr - short for neo-Conservative-rant (also the mathematical notation for the number of combinations for a given number of sets with a given number of elements, I couldn't resist the pun), just a little warning to my liberal friends who may want to avoid the infuriating content to follow, or to steel themselves against the inevitable cognitive dissonance that will follow the exposure to "conservative" philosophy. In actuality, I consider myself a liberal in the truest sense, I am willing to listen to and evaluate an argument in opposition to mine and modify my opinion based on good information, or attempt to persuade in the case of less than relevant information.
GE - short for Grammatical Error. It means that I know there was a grammatical error in the previous sentence, and that there will be more forthcoming. I leave them in either for emphasis, comic relief, or colloquialistic readability. I also persist in using the genderless plural pronouns they and their - I don't know why, but the gender neutral aspect sounds better in certain discussions even though it is grammatically incorrect.
CW - short for Circuitous Wandering. The following passages may have only tenuous links to one another, but they fit the spider-webbing connections that are my fertile (or was that foetid) mind. Just be aware that there may not be a consistent theme, and I am just wandering the dank corridors of my mind, and you are invited to join that sometimes less than pleasant course.
nCr - short for neo-Conservative-rant (also the mathematical notation for the number of combinations for a given number of sets with a given number of elements, I couldn't resist the pun), just a little warning to my liberal friends who may want to avoid the infuriating content to follow, or to steel themselves against the inevitable cognitive dissonance that will follow the exposure to "conservative" philosophy. In actuality, I consider myself a liberal in the truest sense, I am willing to listen to and evaluate an argument in opposition to mine and modify my opinion based on good information, or attempt to persuade in the case of less than relevant information.
GE - short for Grammatical Error. It means that I know there was a grammatical error in the previous sentence, and that there will be more forthcoming. I leave them in either for emphasis, comic relief, or colloquialistic readability. I also persist in using the genderless plural pronouns they and their - I don't know why, but the gender neutral aspect sounds better in certain discussions even though it is grammatically incorrect.
CW - short for Circuitous Wandering. The following passages may have only tenuous links to one another, but they fit the spider-webbing connections that are my fertile (or was that foetid) mind. Just be aware that there may not be a consistent theme, and I am just wandering the dank corridors of my mind, and you are invited to join that sometimes less than pleasant course.
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