"That is why we have an Achilles' Heel, the educational system. Again, sociology majors are not going to be the ones determining the future of Silicone Valley, but physicists, engineers. We need more of them, not less." -- Michio Kaku

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I don't even remember ( Read more... )

For the most part, this semester has been surprisingly successful and rewarding. Since I have used the previous semesters as primarily "busy work," I made sure that the classes I chose this semester felt real, relevant. Strangely, half of my classes are online classes, which means that I submit homework and tests through an online system called ( Read more... )

The movie Sphere was, by many definitions, a very flawed movie. I always found it a guilty pleasure because I feel that it honestly tried to deal with the unknown, and the unknowable-in-a-realistic-fashion unknown. In the movie, the found a space ship from the future buried in goal in the middle of the ocean. All geological phenomenon occur at very ( Read more... )

Today is the last day that I have marijuana. I smoked my last: It is gone. I'm going to go dry for a while just to see if I can. I think I can...but the first few weeks might be "itchy ( Read more... )

For the second night in a row, I've had this reoccurring dream. In this dream I am me: that is; I am lucid, and I am looking at a once-beautiful mountain. Crawling up the side of this mountain is new urban sprawl: McMansion houses; big trucks excavating the soil; destruction. I am standing in the older part of this urban sprawl and I notice the ( Read more... )

Not too long ago, like maybe 10 minutes ago, I was a 5.5 on my 6-point scale of intoxication. I mean, I actually had to pull out the waste basket in the kitchen just to make sure I didn't puke on the floor anywhere in the house. I don't feel really puke-y right now, but before I thought I was going to expel the chicken stuffing and Rum & Coke I had ( Read more... )

I had an interesting, depressing weekend:

• On Friday I received a panicked email from my mom stating that Julie the cockatiel was very close to death. I called my mom on Saturday and she was an emotional wreck. Maybe her feelings would have been buffered by time and acceptance, but I called her one hour after the bird died in her hands. Mom was not ( Read more... )

Julie, the cockatiel, died this morning at 8:30am EST. The time was nigh for this bird, considering he was almost 20, I think. My mom was telling me how he was acting over the past week, and it was pretty tragic. He was being aloof, and had a really difficult time staying awake. He was also starting to lose his feathers, even though birds don't ( Read more... )

I'm having the weird, emotional day ( Read more... )

Oh, brother. I get really sick and tired of ranting about the goddamn environment ( Read more... )