What's on your mind today?

[Asmodean]

Today I'm considering finishing that job I have in physics and looking forward to Monday as then Slipknot are coming to my neighbourhood.

[Titan]

Dr. Horrible's sing-a-long blog. I love it and I don't know why. I hate musicals for the most part. This was apparently written during the writer's strike and it was basically made by the Whedon brothers.
http://www.drhorrible.com
http://www.drhorrible.com/mushortio.html

[jrosebud]

*love* dr. horrible!  didn't know it was still up and running.  will have to point some friendies in it's direction.

[Titan]

Absolutely, I'm trying to find anything on a possible "Act IV" but I think that would be holding out hope against hope. They ended it so well...I don't know where they could go from there.

[quizlixx]

heard  much about Dr. Horrible, what is it all about, is it a webshow, real show, movie?

[Titan]

It is a three act show about a down to earth villain as he tries to join "the evil league of evil." It's a musical, one episode TV show that was written during the writers strike. It's worth a look, I don't even like musicals that much but if someone can make a catchy love song out of "freeze ray" then they deserve a lot of credit in my book.

[MariaEvri]

today Im just wondering whats the news with taht collider experiment

[Asmodean]

Today, I'm still looking forward to the concert tomorrow, at the same time I'm bored no end and feeling rather abandoned.   Story of my life. The abandonment part, that is, I don't get bored easily.

[Jolly Sapper]

Currently, my mind is wondering if the instructor will allow me to fail at a project that I was supposed to.. or just give me an incomplete for the class.  

*crosses fingers*

I hope is just a failing grade.

[Titan]

I love XKCD...I had to try to plug it somehow and that comment came close enough.

[PipeBox]

That's tough Jolly, I had to endure the same thing.  I hope you get that i.  I got had because I had a terrible English teacher.  She claimed on our first day that if we missed more than 4 classes she would kick us out of her course and that we'd get a withdrawn mark (not that bad, you just don't want a lot of 'em).  Well, I told her I was dropping her class.  I dropped it over the computer network.  I missed half the semester.  But I didn't sign the "Master Consent Form."  She failed me.  She went back on her word, my intent, and I got put on my knees and had it put in my ass because I didn't understand the system and I didn't turn in a single piece of paper work.  I'd be sorely tempted to clock her in the face if I ever met her again.  But that's life, and I can't control the choices of others, only myself.  And I blew it that time.

I guess that doesn't help, does it?   Well, in any case, life goes on.  Sometimes it just takes a while to get back up to speed.

Sorry, I know I suck at this.  

[curiosityandthecat]

(Priorities)

I have that on my wall in my office.

[Jolly Sapper]

@ Titan:  Awsome!!

@ PipeBox: My current situation is that if I withdraw from a class this late in the semester, the university won't give the tuition that I've already paid back.  So when the Veteran Administration gets wind that I dropped the class, they will begin to demand that I pay then back.

So much for the GIBILL being "MY" money...  

[quizlixx]

haven't done anything all semester. high school

[PipeBox]

Because of this forum, this has been my morning:

Read Zarathustra's posts.
Start thinking about philosophy again, consider looking up Jung, adjusting my definition of axiom.
Start scouring the forum for useful information for a blog I want to make.
Remember the biblical flood, attempt to look up a verse referencing God flooding the world then realizing he made a mistake.
No luck, but I get sucked into a creationist "science" website.
A lot of esoteric concepts are run by, and I have trouble separating the fact from the misunderstanding.
Research the information around mitochondrial eve.
Debunk through reason all the creationist "genetics."  Some of it took a bit of analysis because not every creationist argument is yet debunked on the net.
Come upon the next argument dealing with a variable speed of light so that stars that are billions of light years away can be seen today.  This is my domain, and I'll save anyone the suspense by just saying no.

However, I've been entertaining the notion of variable constants (wut?) just to see where that takes me.  What if c is variable?  Then stars explode because less mass releases more energy.  e = mc2.  And the speed of light would need to be many orders of magnitude greater.  Stars would blow themselves apart the moment fusion started.   But what if we raise gravity as well?  Then it's a lot easier to create black holes, unless the schwarzschild radius (the size you have to compress a given mass down to for it to fold in on itself) gets smaller as a result of light getting faster or gravity getting stronger.  I haven't checked that, but I don't think I need to.  All of this already comes up against the problem of violating the law of the conservation of energy.  Bump up the speed of light and the universe contains more energy.  Still, just for fun I'm going to ignore that pesky law for now and see how many other constants I have to modify to return something resembling a stable universe.