Hellooooooooo Linear Algebra…
Haha, hooray for more school. Abnormal Psychology looks fun and interesting. Linear Algebra, on the other hand, does not.
I get it, I just don’t like it. And I’d forgotten how much I loathed the setup of math books.
Blah.
Oh dear
So what is it about dubbed Spongebob videos on YouTube that make me laugh so hard?
This one’s great ‘cause the dubbing is incredibly…man, I don’t know, half of it’s so horrible it’s hilarious and the other half is just hilarious. They’re so angry while they dub.
Best lines:
“Spongebob, it’s not fucking ten feet from your big ass!”
“Spongebob to Patrick…fuck yourself…over.”
“I’m gonna have a can of BALLS.”
“I was just fine until you launched that piece of shit into my windpipe!”
The rest of it past 2:09
Silly MSN Conversations with Maggie
Haha, Maggie, we are weird people when we get on MSN Messenger together.
For some reason I decided to read our message history tonight. Here are some of our more random, um, “conversations.” Maggie’s in blue, I’m in red.
hi, i’m wearing pants!
Aloha! I’m wearing tacos!
Oh noes! They’ll still stone you!
so I’ll be stoned?
The bad kind, not the fun kind!
Coming back up, are you? (forgive how sexual that sounds)
yay cookies.
Oh yes. Yes yes yes.
good time to do laundry, i guess.
or maybe it’s a plot of the penguins
Prime mating time, perhaps??
hmmm do the penguins require washing machines to mate?
Reminds them of shifting glaciers
ah
so the penguins are ordering me to do laundry at two AM because they’re all horny?
Heck, if I were a penguin, that’s what I’d be doing
heck, that’s what i’d be doing even if i weren’t a penguin…
I think I’ll be purple for a while…
Purple=sex!
yay sex!
I basically have a grab bag of insanity for my classes (this was last spring, when I was only taking 20 credits. Haha, I had no idea what I had in store for myself later…)
I’d do Amazon
And I’d buy the book from there, too
But it’s HUMP DAY!
and the ones who get offended if something you say is even *slightly* sexual?
OMG THATS SEXUAL YOUR TEH ANTYCRIST
those people need to die.
A horrible, penis-filled death
why does the phrase “penis-filled death” make me laugh?
Cause it’s got the words “penis” and “filled” in it and they’re both funny words when put together?
I want a penis-filled death
Or life
need distraction from brain… AUGH!
Sounds like a good reason to go milk pirates (in reference to the Hebrides songs we played last spring. Haha, wow, this sounds really disturbing without that reference…well, I guess “even more disturbing” I should say).
The most I’ve ever truly done in a math class was draw a little flip book of a stick figure tripping over pi
I spent geometry making fun of perfect squares and got detention for it
“Why aren’t there perfect hexagons LOL” kind of crap
I totally deserved detention
I have this sudden desire to go streaking down my hall…
With all the poking we’ve been doing on Facebook, shouldn’t we have crapped out a combined 200 or so kids by now?
I cannot arrest children for being rude.
what a lame rule.
I totally arrest children for that all the time
I think I’d like to die in the making of the bonfire that destroys the Sistine Chapel…
that could be fun.
omg jesus’ ass is on f–*bursts into flames*
If I die doing that, I want the full description of what I was doing on my tombstone…
Done
hey, i just realized that my week started today…
Ah
Happy MMSAP!
that’s a fun acronym…
sounds like a bad song…
Like MMMBop!!
Foooood yaa
German, yaa
I didn’t know studying Islam made me speak with “yaa” at the end of each sentence
Yaa
well, try not to let Islam destroy thine mind.
take a RAB break.
I just might
And then I’ll DO SOME MOTHERFUCKIN’ DRUGS!
I’m staring at pictures of naked people with pizza.
while listening to the Canticle of the Virgin Mary.
Irony?
Does constipation cause arousal?
and can arousal cause constipation?
Haha “Oh god honey that was so amaz–oh, hold on. Laxative time.”
All of these are from the night we spent in Ridenbaugh before going down to Boise.
I want to (flap) you (the “(flap)” was a little animated stick figure flapping his penis around. Just FYI.)
LOL
LOL
LOL
LOL
STFU I try to do flash!
Your music sucks!
I know, I know!
Turn your damn music off, hippie!
You’re no fun, George!
My teeth are wooden, what do you want!?!?!
Why aren’t you people talking to me?!
I’m right here!
LOL
THAT IS NOT A SUFFICIENT RESPONSE! I HATE YOU!
I still want to (flap) you
I want to play truth or dare, does that mean I’m a preteen?
wifey
wifey!
wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey!! wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey wifey
Shut the hell up!
Good times. We’ll definitely have to hang out in Ridenbaugh before we go down to wherever the hell we’re going this year. Yay!
Ugh.
HOLY CRAP I SURVIVED.
Sorta.
Right now I’m dead, due to my frantically moving out of the dorm this afternoon.
Therefore I bid you goodnight. Or whatever.
Happy birthday, Rob!
It’s 4:45 AM…do you know where your daily blog is?
Right here!
So I’m done with all the actual tests for finals week, but I still have my written final for Modern Philosophy due tomorrow. Or today. Whatever the hell you qualify 5 in the morning as.
Yes, I stayed up this late (early) ‘cause I had basically NO TIME to write this final until about 4 this afternoon, and, me being me, I procrastinated until about 11. The essay on Hume I cranked out in like 15 minutes, but I’ve been slowly and painfully churning out this damn Berkeley essay for the past six hours.
But now I’m done! DONE WITH FINALS WEEK! So of course, since I did my Modern final tonight, I felt it necessary to list the philosophers we covered in order from my favorite to my least favorite. Hmm, what will my #1 be…?
1. Leibniz
I LOVE THIS MAN WITH ALL MY SOUL. I really, really like the way he works through the logic of his philosophy, even though his writing style basically looks down its nose at you, insulting you under its breath because it’s not totally obvious to you right away. But yeah, this guy has taken over my life.
2. Kant
Kant freaking rocks, and not just because his name can be used in a lot of stupid puns. I loved the way he demonstrated that math is not something of which we have a priori knowledge, and I just love the way he basically redefined how we should go about doing philosophy.
3. Hume
I like Hume, but I’m not a fan of the way he argued his way down to that there is no such thing as causality (cause and effect…if I hit the billiard ball with the stick, it will move forward), but because that’s the only way we can get around in the world, we can rely on it. But he does aggressively argue against something that we all take for granted to be true.
Take that, causality!
4. Berkeley
Berkeley interests me, and I don’t really know why. I think it’s because I totally disagree with his “to be is to be perceived” idea, and therefore I want to argue against it. So Berkeley would be in pretty good standing on this list, except for the fact that I had to write something like this at 4:30 in the morning because of him:
“The ‘common sense’ factor of Berkeley’s philosophy is explained as this: it is not simply the lack of direct perceptions of material substance that causes the belief that it doesn’t exist—it’s also the fact that there is no way to explain its existence. There is no reason for the material to exist if perceptions are sensory and can be linked to something that already has reason to exist, like the mind. Qualities do not need something on which they must be projected if they already exist in and out of the senses and are perceived that way. The absence of the material world preserves the parsimony Berkeley so strongly desires.”
5. Spinoza
AAAH SPINOZA! Despite the fact that I don’t know what to think of his philosophy (his logic works out so that his philosophy proves itself), he’s a cute, innocent looking little guy who was excommunicated ‘cause of what he believed. Poor little Spinoza. I sympathize for him.
6. Descartes
I love Descartes. Descartes is great. He’s the founder of modern philosophy, guys! But the reason he’s so far down on this list is because of his whole “evil deceiver” thing. Yes, the extreme doubt is good, but seriously, Rene…the evil deceiver? Ah, well. He had to get his ideas past the church somehow. Sneaky little guy.
7. Locke
Locke bothers me. I don’t really know why; I didn’t really pay that much attention those few days we were covering him. They were right before Spring Break. Haha.
So there you go.
Stress relief via the internet!
Hahaha, holy crap, three finals right in a row, with Symbolic Logic smashed right in the middle.
Fun times. Though I do think I got the quantifier proofs right, and if I did, it would be the first three times that I got quantifier proofs right.
So.
Tonight I took an online test that was structured after Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory, which states that there are several different types of intelligence and that people have strengths and weaknesses in the various types. I took one early tonight, but I misplaced my results and didn’t want to go back and do it again, so I did a different one here.
My results (the higher the number, the stronger I am in that area):
Linguistic: 9
Logical-Mathematical: 10
Spatial: 10
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 6
Musical: 8
Interpersonal: 3
Intrapersonal: 9
A Short Definition of your Highest Scores
Logical-Mathematical – the ability to use numbers to compute and describe, to use mathematical concepts to make conjectures, to apply mathematics in personal daily life, to apply mathematics to data and construct arguments, to be sensitive to the patterns, symmetry, logic, and aesthetics of mathematics, and to solve problems in design and modeling. Possible vocations that use the logical-mathematics intelligence include accountant, bookkeeper, statistician, tradesperson, homemaker, computer programmer, scientist, composer, engineer, inventor, or designer.
Spatial – the ability to perceive and represent the visual-spatial world accurately, to arrange color, line, shape, form and space to meet the needs of others, to interpret and graphically represent visual or spatial ideas, to transform visual or spatial ideas into imaginative and expressive creations. Possible vocations that use spatial intelligence include illustrator, artist, guide, photographer, interior decorator, painter, clothing designer, weaver, builder, architect, art critic, inventor, or cinematographer.
Stress = stats ability?
Huh.
Um, wow.
You know that miracle that I was wishing for yesterday? Um, I think it happened. Either that or stress gives me incredible statistics abilities, ‘cause I swear that stats test was the easiest test I’ve ever taken.
What the hell.
Now to freak out about Symbolic Logic!
Sorry the blogs are short; I’m just in freaking-out mode.
The world! The world! The world is on fire!
Have you ever had a panic attack?
Have you ever had multiple panic attacks in a row?
Yeah. That’s fun.
Tonight I stood (or was curled up in the fetal position, rather) on the steps leading to the Statistics department for quite some time, due to the fact that I couldn’t really move. Or breathe, really. I have a big stats test tomorrow at 10, and I’m really, really freaking out over it, obviously. I’ve never felt so hopeless and utterly afraid in my life.
I need a miracle tomorrow, seriously. This 4.0 is desperately needed.
Indiana Jones and the 25 Credits of Doom
I’m sorry, Rob. I don’t mean to be so freaked out, but I’m under so much freaking stress right now I’m about to die.
Honestly, this 25 credit thing was basically a breeze up until dead week started. Seriously. Now it’s hell on earth.
Will that stop me from attempting to do 28 credits in the fall?
Of course not. You know me.
OOH! OOH! But guess what I found!
RICE UNIVERSITY.
Behold! This is one of the professors there:
Mark A. Kulstad
Emphases: LEIBNIZ, History of Modern Philosophy, Epistemology.
This man, I want him. If I can’t stalk Leibniz, I’ll stalk the guy who studies him.
Oh, and the school also held the first annual NORTH AMERICAN LEIBNIZ CONFERENCE back in January.
Amazing.
Action Leibniz!
Apologies, all. I’m really, really, really busy. Dead week sucks, but the weekend between dead week and finals week REALLY SUCKS.
I’m about ready to die. And the one thing I have to blog about tonight is the one thing that saved me.
So I was dinking around on the internet in between study sessions today—it was necessary to save my sanity—and I found these comics called Action Philosophers!
I bought them after I read the first preview (the one on Descartes). This looks like the funniest comic in existence.
Yay. Here’s hoping I can survive long enough to read them.
Yay Schedule!
Well, now that things have finally settled down, I think I’ve finally figured out my schedule for fall. But Flash is being dumb, so I can’t make a pretty picture for y’all.
And I’m really, really busy, you guys. Apologies if I cancel plans over the weekend. The grades come first, I’m sorry, but they do.
OMG 2 YEARS
Holy crap, people, I’ve been blogging for two years straight now!
Back on May 1st, 2006, I started blogging. Who knew it would turn into this? As per usual, I shall present you with my top titles, broken down into a couple of sections. I’d give you the best blogs, but that hasn’t changed much (yesterday’s was pretty good, though). Plus, it’s dead week and I want to shoot myself, so this is what you get.
Onward!
The “I pick some random dude(s) and ascribe to them some sort of personality quality in my blog title” titles
- Orson Welles, put your pants back on!
- Parmenides, is it really necessary to philosophize sans pants?
- No, Mark Twain, I don’t want to see your “Huckleberry Finn,” now put your pants back on!
- Mr. Gorbachev, first put your pants back on, then we’ll talk about the wall, okay?
- Ronal Reagan was a mean child, always destroying the walls of his playmates’ Lego creations
- John Adams, I do not feel you have the necessary capabilities to bring sexy back
- Machiavelli! No more bran muffins for you, young man!
- Spinoza! Descartes! Am I going to have to separate you two?
- Henry David Thoreau, get out of my pool!
- Blog 660: Leibniz, Leibniz, Leibniz! (Get out of my pool!)
Stupid puns, jokes, or plays on words
- This just in: geophagists across the globe are biting the dust!
This is one of Claudia’s blog titles if and only if it contains a bad joke about biconditionals
If Genghis Khan, You Can, Too! (Too Bad Immanuel Kant)
That’s the one good thing about standard deviates—they’re never mean
I used to teach a failing fly-tying class until I realized my efforts were all for knot
I used to work at a bridal shop specializing in headdresses. My work there was to know a veil
Hyperbole is the best thing EVER!!
I tried flying by the seat of my pants, but I couldn’t get them certified by the FAA
Silly Rabbit…Trix are for Magicians
A Dutch man once touched an electrically-charged French Petri dish. It was a culture shock.
The “If a tree falls in the forest…” series (I thought I had more of these)
- If a tree falls in the forest, can we still have sex later?
If a tree farts in the forest, do all the other trees fall over?
If a tree doesn’t fall in the forest and somebody is around, does the universe suddenly implode?
If a summer falls in the winter, does it spring back?
If a sound falls in a tree and no one is around, does it make a forest?
The “Waiter! There’s a…” series
- Waiter! There’s a Pythagorean Theorem in my Pi!
Waiter! There’s a Hippo in my Taco Grande!
Waiter! There’s a Freudian in my Id!
Waiter! There’s a Quadriplegic in my Jazzercise Class!
Waiter! There’s Voltaire in my English Book! (what’re the odds of that?!)
Waiter! There’s a Creationist in my Primordial Soup!
Waiter! There’s some Plato in my Play-Doh!
Waiter! There’s a Super Nova in my ANOVA! How in the world…?
Waiter! There’s an Intergalactic Star Cruiser in my Bran Muffin!
Waiter! There’s a Pisces in my Tropic of Capricorn!
Waiter! Why in the hell do you always bring me crappy puns?
Waiter! There’s a Matt Farnsworth in my Blog!
Waiter! There’s an e in my pi (thus meaning he brought me pie! Sweet!)
Waiter! There’s an Ethiopia on Djibouti!
Waiter! There’s kurtosis in my bimodal-distributed data!
Waiter! …Waiter? AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHDLFHGSLHDSL!!!
Waiter! There’s four and twenty blackbirds in my pie chart! (Confused? Understandable.)
Waiter! There’s a tree falling in my forest and I can’t tell if it’s making a sound!
Waiter! There’s some fuzzy logic in my dryer’s lint collector!
Waiter! There’s an…aw, screw it, can I just get some pasta?
Ones that I just like
- Jimmy crack corn one more time and I’m referring him to a specialist
Choco Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Cookies
The day that Camus backed into a sumac was the day the palindrome was born!
I think it was Socrates who said, “Hello! My name is Socrates!”
At first I was just friendly to the environment. But now we’re dating!
Sometimes I have the answers. Other times I’m just a toaster.
Where do the quadriplegics stand?
Get confident, stupid!
E = MC Hammer
Drugs: the anti…oh wait.
Hope to entertain you people for another year or two. Or forty.
U Can’t Prove This
OH MY GOD I SURVIVED SYMBOLIC LOGIC.
So in celebration of this, I wrote a song.
It’s sung to the tune of—of course—M.C. Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This.
Oh, and Dr. O’Rourke, if you EVER happen upon this for some reason, I want you to know that this is totally proof (ha! Get it?) that your class had an impact on me and that I loved it. This is dedicated to all of us who, for some reason or another, take a long time to wrap our heads around proofs. Where the free time to write this drivel comes from, I will never know.
Onward!
“U Can’t Prove This”
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
My, my, my, Symbolic Logic, it’s so hard
Makes me say oh my Lord
It seems okay when you’re doing truth tables,
Translations, worlds, you feel quite able
But then you get to problem set four
Crap like you’ve never seen before
Gone are the days of logic bliss
You throw up your hands and say, “u can’t prove this”
I told you, freshman, u can’t prove this
Yeah that’s how we’re graded and you know, u can’t prove this
Look at this statement man, u can’t prove this
Yo let me bust the logic lyrics, u can’t prove this
Boole and Tarsky, Wittgenstein
You start missin’ these guys when you enter the land
Of proofs, it’s quite sad
Who knew philosophy could kick your ass?
Can’t prove a thing without some guidance
Wish you’d taken computer science
But now you’re stuck
You know this class is gonna test your luck
Make it known you can’t get the groove
That this is a statement you can’t prove
Yo I told you, u can’t prove this
Why you standing there man, u can’t prove this
Yo sharpen your pencil, logic class is startin’, u can’t prove this
Then you start to understand
The relief you feel is oh, so grand
But then Prof says, “oh there’s more”
Gives new rules, subproofs galore
And now you’re screwed
Just when you thought your struggle was subdued
You’ve got this “if, then…”
So you go through the pain all over again
Assume P, or not P?
Who the hell knows, it’s all Greek to me
It’s hard because you know
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
Break it down!
Stop. Logic time.
Go with the flowchart it is said
If you can’t prove the former than you’re probably gonna dread
These quants—they’re real tough
You’re trying to learn more but you’ve had enough
Of these rules—they’re absurd
What do they expect, you’re no logic nerd
Backwards E’s and upturned A’s
Out the window flies your grade
A, B, C, D, F, yeah, u can’t prove this
Look man, u can’t prove this
You’d better do the extra credit, boy, ‘cause you know you can’t prove this
Ring the bell, it’s logic time, break it down!
Stop. Logic time.
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
Break it down!
Stop. Logic time.
Every time they see you, you’re working on these proofs
You’re hunting like a bloodhound, a modus pollens sleuth
Now how could you ever increase your proving speed
When you can’t seem to prove concisely what you need
You’ve done so much already, there’s so much more to do
It’s subproof new subproof ‘nother subproof twelve subproofs and you’re hardly half way through
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
U can’t prove this
Yeah, u can’t prove this
I told you, u can’t prove this
Too hard can’t prove this
Get me outta here, I can’t prove this
People underestimate the genius of Weird Al. This is hard. And it doesn’t help that this song is like five minutes long.
I call your number but I can’t get through…
It’s that time of the year again! Hooray for retaking personality tests.

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There’s also my trait snapshot: neat freak, organized, worrying, phobic, fears the unknown, irritable, pessimistic, emotionally sensitive, fears chaos, risk averse, fragile, unadventurous, depressed, frequently second guesses self, perfectionist, hard working, practical, ordinary, cautious, takes precautions, good at saving money, suspicious, mind over heart, busy, altruistic.
Waiter! There’s an Ego in my Eggo!
(Two years later edit: hahaha, ignore all this. What drama we lived in back then, eh?)
Ah, I hate it when this kind of thing happens.
I was going to leave this alone, I was going to let it all just go on, but recent events have, shall we say, forced my blogging hand, and therefore there will be a blog about it now from me. Just one, so that I can state my stance, then I’ll drop it.
Put it simply, I hate it when my friends have disagreements and stop talking to one another. It depresses me and causes tension, not to mention shoots a couple of my plans for the end of the semester to hell. For the record, I’m not saying “you all need to be friends again and love each other, etc., etc.!” I know the situation, I know the circumstances, and, thanks to frequenting the table as much as I’ve been doing, have heard it from many peoples’ perspectives. I have my opinions but they will remain silent because, hey, they’re just my opinions and have no value here whatsoever. What’s done is done.
That being said, here’s point two: I plan on remaining friends with all parties involved. That’s it, end of story. I know this might make one or more of you mad (or it may not—nobody’s really said anything about that), but it’s what I’m going to do. I was friends with all of you before this started, and I’m going to remain friends with all of you now that it’s happened. If any of you have an issue with this, please tell me, ‘cause I’d like to know. It’s either going to be all of you or none of you if issues flair up (I am not choosing sides, forget it), and I’d much prefer it to be all of you, as the “none of you” option would leave me pretty much friendless when marching band starts up again in the fall, and that would suck.
I will remain a sounding board for any of you who need to talk/complain/vent about things (related to this or in general), but keep in mind that that applies to all of you. My friendship with all parties will continue on, and I’m not going to apologize for it if it turns out that that’s a problem.
I will, for the sake of this situation, remain entirely neutral; I just thought it necessary for me to let you know where I stood. I may sound a bit overdramatic about it, but it’s big enough to cause the issues that prompted this blog, so from that I draw my justification.
There you go.
Waiter! There’s a god in my universe!
People! I found yet another cool website! And because MySpace is freaking stupid, I shall write out the URL so that you can go and copy it into a new window, ‘cause this link is totally worth it.
I recommend:
~The Do-It-Yourself Deity. My god got a 1.0 plausibility quotient! Yay!
~Battleground God. I survived with no injury. See? It does pay off to think about this stuff constantly.
~So You Think You’re Logical? Symbolic logic helped with this one. Scenarios change every time, by the way.
It’s fun. Hooray philosophy!
The things we do when we’re given messenger and free time…
Hooray!
So Sean gave me two projective personality tests tonight. One I’d taken long ago (so I question my answers a bit because I had the old template still in my head), but the other was new. I’ll just give you my results, just in case you ever take the tests, ‘cause I don’t want to skew yours.
Onward (these are in Sean’s words, by the way):
~I don’t see a lot of value in the status quo
~Anything noteworthy must be done, not discovered
~I have an artistic, visionary personality; I feel unique but a little disjointed from my surroundings
~I have a fairly broad group of friends; my friends are there, but not “inside” my circle
~my idea of what I want in a romantic partner is un-developed. Right now I don’t have a template, so at the moment “lover” is just a special case of “friend”
~I don’t see difficulties as being added factors, just the normal surroundings “flaring up.” I feel like I can weather the difficulty
~My material possessions are decorative and aesthetic, and they’re important to me
~Knowledge is important to me (but it doesn’t open anything…long story)
~I feel like things will block my path that I have no way of defeating, but they can be circumnavigated
~My love life is “big and scary.” I go in prepared and try to keep myself as safe as possible from getting pulled under
~I hide from danger until it goes away, but I try to approach with a solution as custom-tailored as possible
Hooray for early morning conversations!
It’s a good thing I enjoy this.
So it’s like 3 in the morning and I’m finally done with that damn Stat 422 project. So I shall now show you the basic results, minus all the fancy math and such.
Go!
The Number of Classes Offered by Each College
Agricultural and Life Sciences: 522
Art and Architecture: 209
Business and Economics: 188
Education: 606
Engineering: 647
Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences: 1,419
Natural Resources: 344
Science: 591
TOTAL: 4,526 classes offered
Percentage of Classes that Require Prerequisites, by College (estimated and actual, respectively)
Agricultural and Life Sciences: 25%, 21.6%
Art and Architecture: 25%, 24.9% (holy crap, I was so close!)
Business and Economics: 57.1%, 53.2%
Education: 21.7%, 15%
Engineering: 33%, 32.8% (pretty close here)
Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences: 16.7%, 11.7%
Natural Resources: 15.4%, 11.9%
Science: 36%, 36.5%
TOTAL: 25.1%, 21.8%
Percentage of Classes that Require Prerequisites Outside of the Department, by College (estimated and actual, respectively)
Agricultural and Life Sciences: 5%, 9%
Art and Architecture: 12.5%, 1.9% (haha, wow, that’s way off)
Business and Economics: 0%, 17% (this is even worse!)
Education: 8.7%, 3%
Engineering: 20.8%, 14.8%
Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences: 1.9%, 1%
Natural Resources: 7.7%, 7%
Science: 13.6%, 11.2%
TOTAL: 10%, 6.7%
So here are the final results!
The proportion of University of Idaho courses that require prerequisites was estimated to be 25.14% with a variance of .000858935 and a bound of .0586, or 5.86%.
The proportion of University of Idaho courses that require prerequisites outside of the field of the course in question was estimated to be 10.04% with a variance of .000960987 and a bound of .0619 or 6.19%.
With the bounds in place, the results of these estimates basically tell us that a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of courses offered by the University of Idaho that require prerequisites is between 19.28% and 31%, and that a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of courses offered by the University of Idaho that require prerequisites outside of the field of the course in question is between 3.85% and 16.23%.
Yay!
Skills. I have them.
Bored? Geeky? Want to test your typing speed and its interaction with your ability to remember geeky things?
Look no further than sporcle.com! Tonight I did the “Can You Name Elements of the Periodic Table?” and “Can You Name All the U.S. Presidents?” 15-minute and 10-minute time limits, respectively. Here are my results:

As you can see, I captured the image with 1:43 still on the clock. I hit a block, couldn’t think of any more. Haha, epic fail of the Lanthanide series.

Ha! I OWNED this! In less than 3 minutes, too (damn you, McKinley!). This is the useless skill I gained from being obsessed with the guys.
Yeah, I’m bored. Trying to keep my mind off of things.
WOOO! Survey!
FRIENDS! A survey about you!
Yes, I suck at the top four “same sex” questions, give me a break! Most of the people I know real well are male.
Top 4 Same Sex
1 Maggie
2 Brittany
3 Shannyn
4 Jessi!!
Top 4 Opposite Sex
5 Rob
6 Sean
7 Nick
8 Aneel
:One:
(1) What’s this person’s sign?: Capricorn
(2) How did you meet?: Marching band!
(3) Are they with anyone else on your top 8?: Nope
(4) What’s their favourite food?: Nachos, most likely.
(5) Do they give the best hugs?: They give good hugs, yes
(6) Are you related to them?: Nope
(7) What do they want to be when they’re older?: Music archivist, I do believe (or something along those lines)
(8) Could you live with them?: That would be highly entertaining
(9) What’s their quirk that makes them so unique?: Her humor
(10) Have you ever written them a post card?: Nope
(11) How often do you see them?: Every week or so
(12) Do you / did you go to school with them?: College!
(13) What colour eyes do they have?: Blue
(14) Are they taller or shorter than you?: Taller
(15) Can they be stubborn?: Indeed
:Two:
(1) What’s their middle name?: Marie
(2) When you met, who spoke first?: We were both kind of talking…I can’t remember
(3) Are they single or taken?: Single
(4) Do they take life seriously?: She can
(5) What do they normally wear?: Sexy things
(6) Which parent do they look most like?: I don’t know, I’ve never seen her parents
(7) Are they a good writer?: I don’t know, I’ve never seen anything she’s written
(8) What’s their best physical trait?: Boobies!
(9) Do they have any bad habits?: Probably, but don’t we all?
(10) What TV show do they never miss?: I know she likes South Park and Futurama
(11) Do your parents like them?: Never met her
(12) What are they likely to be doing right now?: She’s on Messenger, that’s all I know
(13) Do they play guitar?: In games, at least
(14) Would they dye their hair?: She might, but her natural hair color is very pretty
(15) What reminds you of them?: Concert band!
:Three:
(1) What color hair does this person have?: Brown
(2) Do they have a cat?: Several, I do believe
(3) What accent do they have?: None
(4) Are they straight?: Believe so
(5) What’s the funniest thing they’ve said?: Shannyn says a lot of funny things; that’s why I love her
(6) Is their room always tidy?: I’ve only been to her house like twice
(7) How do they act to you when they’re upset?: You know, I’ve never seen her really upset I don’t think
(8) What’s their best subject?: You know, I don’t remember. Did you like English?
(9) Are they close to their family?: I believe so
(10) Do they drink?: Don’t think so
(11) Is this person a bit of a rebel?: In her own little way
(12) What’s the one thing you cannot imagine this person ever doing?: Getting really, really angry.
(13) Have you talked to this person on IM in the past 24 hours?: Nope
(14) What’s the last thing you did together?: Road trip last summer?
(15) What’s their heritage?: Not sure
:Four:
(1) Is this person a good cook?: No idea
(2) Do you guys do everything together?: When marching band’s going, we have fun doing that
(3) What was the last thing you two laughed at?: Her boyfriend when he fell down the stairs.
(4) Do they have a myspace account?: Yup
(5) Is their skin darker or lighter than yours?: Darker, tanner.
(6) Do they bite their nails?: I don’t think so
(7) Name 5 artists on their iPod: I don’t even know if she has an iPod
(8) How do you cheer them up?: Shout “WIFEY!” and hug her
(9) Does this person care about healthy eating?: Don’t know
(10) Do they know how to PARTAY!!!: Haha, probably in a Jessi way.
(11) What do you like most about them?: She’s funny. That and we’re married.
(12) Do you love them?: We’re married! Of course I love her!
(13) What’s their handwriting like?: I don’t think I’ve ever seen it?
(14) How do they normally have their hair?: Pony tail, I think
(15) What smiley do they overuse on IM?: Never IM’ed each other
:Five:
(1) You guys go to dinner. Who pays?: Depends on whose turn it is.
(2) Where did you meet this person?: Pizza Hut on Vandal Friday
(3) Have you ever considered dating them?: Yup. And look how it’s turned out.
(4) Do people often think you’re together?: Depends on the level of gropage occurring.
(5) …ARE you together?: Yup.
(6) What’s the best thing about their personality?: He actually cares and he respects my boundaries. I don’t think he knows how much that means.
(7) Have you ever hugged this person?: Yes, a lot
(8) How often do you talk to this person on IM?: Almost every night
(9) Do you have their phone number?: Yup
(10) Do you hang out with groups of friends or just with each other?: Both
(11) Are they taller than you?: Haha, almost everyone’s taller than me.
(12) If you went exploring, would they be likely to get you lost?: Probably not.
(13) Do they confide into you a lot?: A fair amount
(14) What’s their best physical trait?: His eyes. His soft hair.
(15) Do they have any pets?: Jess has a cat.
:Six:
(1) What’s this person’s best physical trait?: He’s got the most beautiful hair I’ve ever seen.
(2) Does this person make you laugh a lot?: Oh my god, you have no idea.
(3) Name 3 artists on their iPod: Nightmare, another Japanese band that I don’t know the English name of ‘cause he never told me and it shows up in Japanese characters, and Deep Forest (thanks to me, haha).
(4) Do they give the best hugs ever?: I’ve only hugged him a few times, but yes.
(5) If this person kissed you, would you kiss back?: Haha, Rob would be so pissed.
(6) Have you guys dated in the past?: Ehhh…kinda. We went out once.
(7) Is this person a big sleeper?: He goes to bed late, but likes to sleep in.
(8) If they had a band, what instrument would they play?: Guitar, probably.
(9) What do you love about their personality?: He’s the wittiest, most intelligent person I think I’ve ever met.
(10) Can they trust you?: Yes. I hope he knows that, too.
(11) Are they single?: Think so…
(12) Do you find them physically attractive?: Sean’s hot.
(13) What’s their favorite movie?: He doesn’t like movies.
(14) Have you ever stayed at their house?: Just for a few hours.
(15) Would you take a bullet for them?: Of course!
:Seven:
(1) Does this person love food?: Hahaha, oh dear god yes.
(2) When was the last time you saw them?: Last week.
(3) How old were you when you met?: 18, he was 19.
(4) What’s their voice like?: Distinctive.
(5) When you first met, did you even consider getting together?: Nah, we’ve been platonic from the start.
(6) Would you now?: Nah, he’s in a relationship and so am I.
(7) Have you ever kissed them?: Nope.
(8) What makes them special to you?: Our personalities complement each other perfectly; we have the best conversations because we can prompt each other. And we’re both philosophy nerds.
(9) Have you told a lie for this person?: Once or twice.
(10) Do you think you’ll be friends forever?: Nick’s awesome. I sure hope so
(11) Do they ‘like’ anyone right now?: Yup.
(12) Are they playful?: Very
(13) Could you live with them?: Haha, that would be hilarious.
(14) Do you love them?: Platonically.
(15) What do they do best?: Philosophize and complain that they don’t want to teach philosophy as their career.
:Eight:
(1) Is this person cute?: In his own little Aneel way.
(2) Describe their hair.: Dark brown, short (last time I saw him, at least)
(3) Are they slightly sick-minded?: Slightly.
(4) What do you like about them physically?: I’ve always liked your eyes, Aneel
(5) And their personality?: Only one word can suffice: “Aneelish”
(6) Are they a flirt?: Oh my yes
(7) What’s their sign?: Aquarius!
(8) Have you ever thought about kissing them?: Nah, we’re platonic
(9) Do you think they might have a crush on you?: See above
(10) Do they give you lots of hugs?: When I see him. But it’s usually prompted by my groping him.
(11) Would you trust them with your life?: Maybe
(12) If they were famous, what would it be for?: Hahaha, pimp.
(13) Are they a good leader?: He’s too quiet
(14) If you had to save 1’s life, would you sleep with this person?: I don’t think that would make either Aneel or #1 happy, but yes.
(15) Can this person draw?: I think so
Holograms are a philosophy teacher’s worst nightmare
OH MY GOD I HAVE FOUND THE MOTHERLOAD.
Philosophy humor. Buckets of it.
I will now show you a few of my favorites, ‘cause I’m cool like that and I’ve been laughing all night because of these. You might get them, you might not, it depends on how much philosophy you know/how closely you actually listen to me when I go on my philosophy tangents.
Causes of Death for Philosophers
Anselm: Than which no deadlier can be conceived (I wonder if he realized how often that one single phrase of his would turn into random jokes?)
Berkeley: His girlfriend stopped seeing him (this has to be one of the greatest of all)
Descartes: Stopped thinking (of course)
Leibniz: Monadnucleosis (bahahahaha…)
Plato: Caved in
Spinoza: Substance abuse
Hume’s philosophy summed up in limerick form. Perfect.
That somewhat stout Scot David Hume
Said “this cosmos of ours has no room
For forces or powers
It’s just hours and hours
Of impressions, then ideas, till the tomb.”
Scroll down to the “Songs and Poems” section and click on The Monads. I want to find these guys and have all of their children (“The Missing Shade of Blues” is genius).
I love people who find humor in the things in which I find humor.
Gimme an S! Gimme a T! Gimme an R! Gimme an E! Gimme two S’s! What does that spell?!
Ugh.
I’m apologizing to you all. Some of you, I’m apologizing to for things I’ve already done, the rest of you, I’m apologizing for things that I may do in the coming few weeks. Here’s why:
As you all have read (hopefully), a while back I blogged about how much I’ve changed since getting off the meds…how my outlook on life has changed, how my attitudes have changed, all that good stuff. Well, since the “I stared academic failure in the face” incident with my stat 401 test, I’ve been really, really stressed out. Unfortunately, I’ve found myself reverting to my old coping mechanisms and my old frame of mind. And if you knew me at all prior to last December, you know how bad I was.
I’m just scared as hell that I’m reverting back to my old self. I DON’T WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT, I really, really don’t. So if I’m bitchy, if I snap at you, if I’m self depreciating (I mean, worse than I have been in the past few months), if I’m depressing to be around, it’s because I’m stressed and because I’m so damn afraid of going back to what I was. ‘Cause honestly, if I go back to that after these five or so months of being so much better, I really don’t know what I’m going to do…
So if you guys could be understanding till finals are over, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.
Oh wow, a survey. Shocker.
I’m bored. Deal.
Names?:
#1.
Rob
#2.
Matt
#3.
Nick
#4.
Maggie
[X]Number One[X]
How and when did you meet this person?:
At Pizza Hut on Vandal Friday, E’raina introduced us.
Why do you like them?:
Because he’s one of the few people around whom I am comfortable just being me.
Have you ever traveled with them?:
Nope.
Are you very alike or very different?:
We’re pretty different, I’d say, but our humor is similar.
Do you fight with them?:
Just over stupid little things.
Would you consider this person to be like family to you?:
Maybe. Not sure.
What are some memorable moments with this person?:
Haha, the Dollar Store, ShopKo, the fishbowl
Do they know a lot of your secrets?:
Pretty many, yeah.
Do you know a lot of their secrets?:
Not sure if he’d call them secrets.
What is your favorite memory of #1?:
Fishbowl. “Dude, why are we in the airport?”
[X]Number Two[X]
What is/are your favorite thing(s) about this person?:
He puts up with me. And he puts up with my dumb Flash animations about him.
How did you meet them?:
Band!
Have you ever dated this person? ARE you dating this person?:
Yes, no.
Have you ever been to #2’s house?:
Yup.
Does this person like you (in either way)?:
I hope so…
Have you ever had any classes with them?:
Just band.
Do you share any common friends?:
Quite a few.
Have you ever had a major row with them?:
I don’t know if “row” is the most appropriate word for it…
Does this person give good advice?:
I…I’m not sure. When was the last time you advised me, Matt?
What is your favorite memory of #2?:
Psycho de Mayo!
[X]Number Three[X]
How long have you known this person?:
Since spring ‘07
How did you meet?:
We started talking in the Bookstore when we were both buying books for the semester.
Why do you like him/her?:
How could anyone not like Nick? We complement each other perfectly.
Do you like their family?:
I’ve never met them.
What do you do when you are together or talking on the phone/internet?:
Make each other laugh. Talk about random crap. Make philosophy jokes. Pretend we’re awesome.
Do you go to the same school?:
Yup.
Does this person live nearby?:
His apartment is kind of close, but he goes back to Montana to go home.
Do you give each other advice often?:
Nah, we just give each other crap.
What is their best quality?:
He’s incredibly funny.
What is your favorite memory of #3?:
Haha, that time he came up to my room and tried to perform an exorcism on my printer. That was hilarious.
[X]Number Four[X]
How long have you known #4?:
Freshman semester
How did you meet?:
Band!
Do you know a lot of dirt about each other?:
Eh, sorta. We’re both weird, and we both know the other’s weird, does that count?
What makes this person unique?:
Dear god, she’s Maggie! What more do you need?
Are they witty?:
She can be.
Do you have any inside jokes with them? If so, what?:
AAAAHH PUSSY!
Do you have friends in common?:
Yup.
Do they give good advice?:
Have you ever advised me, Maggie?
Are they attractive?:
She’s smokin’!
What is your favorite memory of #4?:
The pseudo birthday party at her apartment.
[X][X]Random, but informative[X][X]
What reminds you of #1?:
The library
What reminds you of #2?:
Railroad tracks.
What reminds you of #3?:
Godot.
What reminds you of #4?:
PUSSY! Sorry, had to.
Who is the most bubbly?:
Haha, I don’t know if any of my friends are bubbly.
Who is the most different from you?:
Probably Rob, actually.
Who would fit in best at a rave?:
Nick, just ‘cause I’d like to see what he’d do in one.
Who makes you laugh the most?:
Nick, definitely
Finally, does everyone on your Top 4 get along?:
Numbers 1 and 2 clash, but in a really funny way, and nobody else knows Nick.
Is this a haiku? Nobody knows but Jesus. What a lame title.
Ah, internet forums, how I love you.
Take a forum that is 99% preteen and teenage males.
Have one of them start a thread about Haikus.
Laugh at resulting poems.
This topic is great,
You can write many Haikus,
this is a haiku.
I can write Haikus,
You also can write Haikus,
Let us write Haikus.
Haiku Haiku Hai-
Ku Haiku Haiku Haiku
Haiku Haiku Ergh.
I see what you mean
these poems are very odd
This is Sparta—aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
This topic is great
I struggle to fit in words
Dude, i hate you, fuck
rhyming, how clever
now it’s harder than ever
but alright, whatever
Fail at haiku,
Take the internet seri-
-ously, you lose sir
Cornucopia
Full of dry fruits and the like
Stunning proportions
When I was a young
boy my father took me in-
to the city to
See a marching band.
He said, “Son, when you grow up,
will you be the sav-
Ior of the broken,
the beaten and the damned?” He
said, “Will you defeat
them, your demons, and
all the non-believers, the
plans that they have made?”
What what in the butt
I say what what in the butt
That is a haiku
Clock Crew, you rock my socks off.
