Ben, Sunil, Rob, Jill, and I all went to bear’s den at midnight. The food eating was rather uneventful, but as we were leaving I ran into an old friend, Shira Sacks. She was wearing a green hoodie and some rainboots, as well as carrying a green umbrella. Having not seen her in some time [...]
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After not having any dreams or daydreams for the past few weeks it seems that they’ve come back. Though I can’t say it’s a causative, there seems to be a correlation between me sleeping (actually sleeping) with women and having creative energy. I hadn’t cuddled with someone for some time and then, the night I [...]
It’s amazing!
For some reason I can’t embed it into the blog, so you’ll have to just follow the link. A bunch of dudes with paintball guns made a giant painting of Marilyn Monroe on a huge canvas in a matter of seconds. Very cool!
Everyone knows the sound of the raver bass. The UHNTZ UHNTZ UHNTZ, when paired with glowsticks, serves to hypnotize both raver and bystander alike, often leading to notoriously phat* dance parties.
Now, in dissecting the workings of a rave or of a random dance party in general, there remains one question. What came first, the raver [...]
So I’ve been writing every day for an hour or so in an effort to refine my writing skills. Here’s a story that came from a daydream I had a few days ago. It sounds almost like a children’s story to me, so if you have any illustrative skills feel free to draw something [...]
It seems that everything I have to tell from my childhood happened when I was 8. Perhaps it was the dawn of my long-term memory coupled with my absorption of all the lore my family had given to me, but my 8th year holds an unfair proportion of all my memories. A lot of the [...]
I’m always hit by this weird wave of thought that makes my head go
“FUCK, MAKE SOMETHING!”
and it’s really starting to make me angry.
More than that, I think it’s making me sleep strangely. I now have class at either 11:30 or 1:00 in the afternoon, and so my sleeping schedule has moved forwards approximately 5 hours. [...]
So, here’s the poem.
I took all my daydreams from the past week or so and stitched them together when I was high on stress at 2:00 in the morning. I rather like how it turned out, besides the painful part about hymens. There’s some additional formatting on it, but it’ll do fine as is. ENJOY.
Light-Headed
Black [...]
Life without Internet is like life without water. Yeah, you can live for a couple days but it SUCKS. And then you die.
So, of course, when I moved in to my apartment in St Louis this past weekend, the first thing I thought about was getting access to the series of Tubes. Sadly, all of [...]
September 30th, 2005: a Danish newspaper published a page of cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Muslims around the world rioted and destroyed property, leading in hundreds of deaths. Four years later, Blasphemy Day was born.
This past Wednesday (September 30th), UNIFI (the UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers) celebrated Blasphemy Day by sending out a horde of [...]
I got officially moved into my apartment yesterday. I harnessed the kitten to the passenger door so he could roam a bit, then headed south from Grinnell. I picked up Sam and forced him to help me unload things, then dropped him back off at some raucous WashU event.
All of my stuff was in a pile [...]
The videos speak for themselves. The funny thing is that Lewis Prothero’s character in the movie was channeled as an emulation of Glenn Beck. But now, Glenn Beck has a speech to match it!
I updated the Weasel program a fair bit, and it is now available on sourceforge. The program still does the same stuff, but the interface is cleaner and friendlier. Most of the changes were just to make the code easier to navigate.
BUT, I am currently working on a more interesting program that will model a [...]
So my life has taken and interesting (and welcome) turn lately. I’m applying to grad schools for PhD programs in bioinformatics/genomics/etc, and have found a few schools that have programs that seem perfect. One of those schools is WashU in St. Louis (where Sam is an undergrad).
My mother, grandparents, and I went to visit Sam [...]
Saudi Arabia unveiled its first integrated co-ed university today. Upon hearing this news, I was sort of pissed off. I wasn’t upset about the progress that has been made; I was only upset at how far behind Saudi Arabia is when it comes to women’s rights, and how this small step is being applauded as [...]
Dear Christian,
Kids in middle school are ass holes. More than that, they’re power wielding bouches (bitch-douches) who don’t yet know that we’re all human. In 6th grade, or so I believe, our little in-group had an explosive reaction to you, and I’d like to apologize. Not for them, but for myself.
Talking to anyone of the [...]
Yeah, that’s not a typo. I want to be able to SLEEP WAKE. That is, sleep while I’m awake.
I don’t really understand sleep. Sometimes, when I’m falling asleep, I forget how to fall asleep, and then I lie there for hours. It’s a weird experience, if you think about it. We just close our eyes, [...]
This post discusses a computer program that you can download to try yourself (and get the source code if you want to make your own version).
At our huge family reunion (Mom’s side) earlier this summer, we were handed a wordfind that someone had generated somewhere on the Internets that contained the names of the family [...]
I drove to St. Louis yesterday to visit my Little Brother at WashU and to meet with a researcher tomorrow for a potential job. It’s a long drive, and my mind was whirring all the way, so I thought I’d throw out a few random things I was contemplating (my apologies for the unpolished, poorly-written [...]
Bible beaters love Panera Bread. But then again, everyone loves Panera Bread, and rightfully so. It’s delicious, expensive, and you can steal coffee refills to feel good about striking back at corporate America.
Today, I am at Panera to study for the LSAT. Because it is Sunday, lots of the local church folk come by to [...]
I walk. I walk way too much. Through recording my daily activities, I found that I walk for an average of 48 minutes per day during weekdays. These are 48 minutes of each day that I can never get back. If I’m already spending 25-33% of my life sleeping, I don’t want to spend another [...]
I read on Pharyngula and Friendly Atheist about a guy giving away copies of Darwin’s Origin of Species with an introduction “explaining” why readers should not believe in evolution. It’s hilarious, complete with all of the standard creationist misunderstandings. Apparently the rest of the book is the actual thing, it is just the added introduction [...]
Inspired by Dawkins’ METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL program (hereafter just weasel) described in his book “The Blind Watchmaker,” and wanting to practice my blossoming C++ skills, I decided to write my own version of weasel. It was successful enough, and I found the results interesting enough to warrant discussion. Download the program (Windows .exe file) [...]
All right. After reading Pharyngula today and seeing PZ Myers’s call for the spread of knowledge, I have a few thoughts.
I recognize that you dogmatic religious folks don’t like scrutinizing… well, anything, really… but we’re running out of ways to spoon feed you knowledge. When you come stomping in the room with your diapers on, [...]
I got daydream slapped so hard yesterday that I almost walked into a post. If these visuals continue at this alarming rate I may have to get some ADD medication.
On that note, here’s what I saw.
I was sprinting through a forest which, as per usual, was overgrown and dark. Light shot through foliage in that [...]
Hey, Coster3 readers!
I’m here today to tell you about something that makes my life even more enjoyable than rolling in a field of cool-whip covered grapes. What is this glorious thing? IT’S STEAM! No, not the gaseous form of water that scalds your hand when you’re stirring the pasta. I’m talking about steam, the game [...]
At Grab a Brew, Share Your View this week, we had some unusual questions come directed toward the atheists in the room from the religious side. Specifically, several religious folk agreed with one another that atheism is not a lack of belief, but rather, it is a belief system. It is clear how this could [...]
SO
Here’s the deal.
As much as I despise texting for its over-usage and lobotomy of social interaction, it serves its purposes. For instance, one day during the summer I was eating a banana. This fact was so interesting to me that I had to share it with a person I had recently gotten off the phone [...]
If you haven’t frequented internet forums or message boards in the past couple years, you probably haven’t heard of Rickrolling, so I’ll enlighten the uninformed! Somehow, somewhere, someone decided that it would be funny to play a prank on a buddy. The prankster told his friend, “Hey, check out this awesome video I found of [...]
In poetry today, amid talks of emo poets and death and love lost, our teacher passed around a baby shark in a fermaldehyde jar.
This, he explained, was to be our trigger for a poem. He told us we had 15 minutes to write whatever came out and also gave us a few things to include:
female [...]
Bailey and I were walking through the Danforth University Center today when we strolled into a strange looking station. In front of the grand fireplace were two people with DUC uniforms on, along with two bins of ice water and a strange looking series of vats.
“What are you guys doing?” We queried.
“Oh, we’re making wax [...]
When reading academic journals, students often feel overwhelmed by the perceived intelligence of the author. If it’s hard to understand, then the ideas being presented are probably way above your capacity, right? Wrong.
It’s bad writing. The goal of the writer shouldn’t be to help the reader understand the text. The writer should instead aim to [...]
I am taking the LSAT today. This is the big test that decides which law schools I can go to, so I have to do well. Taking this into consideration, I made it a point to put off studying for it as long as possible. Finally, as Friday of this past week rolled around, I [...]
I used to eat chocolate. My use of the word “eat” in this situation would be similar to using the term “fart” to describe a supernova. I ate a lot of chocolate. A normal day would consist of breakfast, followed by a trip to the nearby convenience store. I would buy a king-sized Hershey’s bar, which [...]
My friends Betty and Lexi are into hardcore metal music. I, personally, prefer the likes of Coldplay, Muse, and even Regina Specter.
THAT BEING SAID
We don’t exactly match one another on our tastes for tunes.
In an attempt to convert me to listening to screamo on a regular basis, Betty and Lexi dedicated one of their weekly [...]
I read all of these stories from Adam’s well-constructed blog posts. They are inspiring, to say the least. He is putting himself in the middle of it all. He is voluntarily living in one of the poorest countries in the world, teaching science and technology to people who barely have a hole to shit in. [...]
So I got dropped off at site on Thursday, not having any idea what to expect. I called my counterpart when I arrived, and he met me at a shop near to where I got off. I chatted a bit with the shopkeeper and some gentlemen seated outside who were all very nice and welcomed [...]
Instead of a PCT. “T” for Trainee, “V” for Volunteer (or Vendetta). Anyway, we had our ceremony today, in which I gave a speech without writing it first. Good times. Most new Volunteers went to site today, but the Ateso and Lango language groups (mine being the former) are leaving tomorrow morning because [...]
Yesterday I overheard a conversation between two people behind me. I began eavesdropping as I continued working on my finance problems, but eventually I had to intervene. This was on April 3rd, the day the Iowa Supreme Court declared the ban on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional. Of the two people sitting behind me, one [...]
The Plan
As some or most of you know, I have been planning to attend a Bible study for a while now. This past Wednesday, I finally got around to it! We studied Luke 4:31-44, a section about Jesus healing people. For those who want to read the passage, check out this link. It’s not very [...]
While tag surfing I came across this guy’s blog. He has posted a paper (direct download link via his site) that he wrote on how evolution is a religion and has no supporting evidence, closing with this sentence: “After investigating the evidences for evolution, one, if unbiased, must come to the conclusion that evolution is [...]
This little Windows PowerToy is probably one of XP’s best-kept secrets. If you have an LCD monitor (just about guaranteed at this point) then you absolutely need it. And you probably don’t even know it.
Look at the text on your screen. Notice how pixelated it looks, with all those little corners and jagged edges? This [...]
We’ve got the warning and very basic background out of the way, so let’s start making a TeX document!
First, open up Texmaker. If you left a shortcut on your desktop during installation, double-click it. If not, go to your Start Menu, click All programs, and then Texmaker. A window will open:
As in the screenshot, there [...]
Now that you have finished downloading and installing the main components, it’s time to start learning LaTeX!
My plan is to give you the basics that you need to start writing and some resources for more advanced stuff. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get the basics down you can easily search [...]
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