Some people watch poker on TV because they like poker. I am not one of those people. I watch poker because I like the little probability box that comes up next to the player's hand. Two aces versus two jacks, and player one has an 80% chance of winning, or something like that ( Read more... )

Now we've even got this stupid Ethnic Studies requirement where we make people study American cultures where the idea is you're supposed to celebrate various forms of really quite ordinary phenomena. There's nothing intellectually special about having been born a certain race or a certain gender. ~ John Searle

Back at school. Moving in. What a pain. Maybe I'll do some updates now though.

I thought that the International Baccalaureate was bad. And it is. The thing is that I can't seem to escape horribly implemented cosmopolitan ideas about education and critical thinking and writing and all sorts of crap like that. Here at Case they call it SAGES. Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship. My ass ( Read more... )

I got pwned today. Possibly the worst I've ever been pwned by a single person ( Read more... )

Today is Thursday. Thursday is a good day for me. My classes don't start until 1:15 in the afternoon. It is sushi night. And also I won tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra concert this evening. Beethoven's 4th and Nielsen's 5th. Yay ( Read more... )

I blame the SAT. I think I could make a case lumping all that is wrong with the nation on standardized testing. It is to blame for our country's ignorance, for our high divorce rate, for our supposedly incompetent government, even Texas. Yes, even Texas is the College Board's fault ( Read more... )

Roscoe Purkapile ( Read more... )

An amusing quote, quoted in my Psychology text ( Read more... )

Knock knock.
Who's there?
The pope.
The pope who?
Dysentery!