November 2010
Breaking News: This Theme Makes Me Feel Like A Journalist
Yep.
I passed by a gas station in Clayton today
that had the freaking Triforce as their emblem.
Sistine Chapel 360 →
vatican.va
I wish this was my room. Music included, and no one can talk.
I would get so much thinking done.
Those with higher intelligence tend to be night owls. →
psychologytoday.com
“…general intelligence is its own module handling only evolutionarily novel circumstances.”
“Because the nocturnal lifestyle allowed by electricity didn’t exist 10,000 years ago, we must now rely on general intelligence to override our early-to-bed instincts.”
Night LightsBedtimes and wake-up times for Americans in their 20s by IQ.
Very Dull (IQ < 75)
Weekday: 11:41 P.M.-7:20 A.M.
Weekend: 12:35 A.M.-10:09 A.M.
Normal (90 < IQ < 110)
Weekday: 12:10 A.M.-7:32 A.M.
Weekend: 1:13 A.M.-10:14 A.M.
Very Bright (IQ > 125)
Weekday: 12:29 A.M.-7:52 A.M.
Weekend: 1:44 A.M.-11:07 A.M.
Honestly, they all look pretty late to me. On the week days I aim for 11 or earlier, because I love sleep so much, and on the weekends generally twelve or one. I don’t see a huge difference in bedtime preferences through IQ with that information, but whatever.
Trying to make Triforce bokeh
NEED SMALLER SCISSORS
My Day Today.
Half-Life.
Ocarina of Time (bombed some dodongos).
Lunch.
Resident Evil 4.
Alien Swarm.
Dinner.
Oh, how the days go by!
Play
also: WHAT GIVES?
Meow…
T...Ta...TAKE IT OFF!
“I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.”
—Blaise Pascal
Sometimes, people tell me to get a life.
I just remind them that I’ve already got four fairies in bottles. What more do they want?
Also
</half-lifejoke>
Just made the Kessel Run
in under 12 parsecs.
This is why Revenge of the Sith, the book by Matthew Stover, is fantastic.
~an excerpt from the elevator shaft scene on Grievous’s ship~
Obi-Wan Kenobi opened his eyes to find himself staring at what he strongly suspected was Anakin’s butt. It looked like Anakin’s butt—well, his pants, anyway—though it was thoroughly impossible for Obi-Wan to be certain, since he had never before had occasion to examine Anakin’s butt upside down, which it currently appeared to be, nor from this rather uncomfortably close range.
And how he might have arrived at this angle and this range was entirely baffling.
He said, “Um, have I missed something?”
“Hang on,” he heard Anakin say. “We’re in a bit of a situation here.”
So it was Anakin’s butt after all. He supposed he might take a modicum of comfort from that. Looking up, he discovered Anakin’s legs, and his boots— and a somewhat astonishing close-up view of the Supreme Chancellor, as Palpatine seemingly balanced overhead, supported only by a white-knuckled death-grip on Anakin’s ankle.
“Oh, hello, Chancellor,” he said mildly. “Are you well?”
I wish the Owl from LoZ would just go back to the Hundred Acre woods and teach Pooh a lesson, who probably needs more instruction than the hero of Hyrule.
Just sayin’ (though the first picture is the owl from Link’s Awakening).
- Anakin: Stars can die?
- Obi-Wan: It is the way of the universe, which is another manner of saying that it is the will of the Force. Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out. This is why Jedi form no attachments: all things pass. To hold on to something--or someone-- beyond its time is to set your selfish desires against the Force. That is a path of misery, Anakin; the Jedi do not walk it.
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"What Makes People Vote Republican?" →
disinfo.com
“Conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death. People vote Republican because Republicans offer “moral clarity”—a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate. Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason with their long-winded explorations of policy options for a complex world.”
As a liberal, I’d like to completely embrace this. But then I read this:
“In the psychological community, where almost all of us are politically liberal, our diagnosis of conservatism gives us the additional pleasure of shared righteous anger… Our diagnosis explains away Republican successes while convincing us and our fellow liberals that we hold the moral high ground. Our diagnosis tells us that we have nothing to learn from other ideologies…”
A little biased is our diagnosis, hmm?
