Cupcakene!
April 1st, 2008 by excimerTwo things:
First, Rob W. is writing a blog dedicated to literature on graphene. Required reading (especially for his schematic of free-standing graphene).
Next, Questionable content rocked my world today:
And to think, I got there from xkcd’s little April Fool’s prank…
I’ll have a real post up at some point, I’ve been busy. I know you all miss me.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO TO YOUTUBE AND CLICK ON ANY ONE OF THE FEATURED VIDEOS RIGHT NOW. SERIOUSLY, DO IT.
CAPS LOCK- CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
Thanks for the plug, guys. I hope to harness your readers to explain all of physics to me.
Also, sweet cartoon.
So THAT’s where QC went today. I carefully typed in the address twice and all I got were dinosaurs. Then I remembered that it’s April Fool’s.
Thanks!
dude, dinosaur comics is awesome.
I was checking out my daily comics (questionable content and XKCD) and was a litller confused, those guys got me. A thhird comic I check during my breakfest is explosm.net (if you don’t mind blood, poo and sexism)…
<3 questionable content. Didn’t know you read it, though.
At risk of apearing as perv: The Scotch tape got me thinking of pealing onion with the help of a tape dispenser. And this in turn got me thinking about removing the unwanted hair from man’s chest, legs and buttocks – which as I am told is very painful procedure – and this got me thinking about adding Lidocain or Novocain or any other cheapo local anesthetic into the sticky wax used for the procedure: by the time the wax cools and sets, the skin is numbed down and you cant feel a thing. I thing freshly whacked buttocks are definitely more life-affirming than the cupcakes.
Freshly whacked or freshly waxed?
“At the risk of appearing as perv”- this is one of your tamest comments ever. Please don’t bail out on us, not now.
whacked out, sorry. Not spikin inglish
In 1960 a $(US)million bought 28,571 troy oz. of gold.
In 2008 a $(US)million bought 1,000 troy oz. of gold.
Milionaire in 2008? Ha ha ha.
(Four years of college, $3500 vs. $80,000. Does that hurt enough?)
After subtracting for tuition, I ended college about $30k in the black (without factoring in any money from four years lab teching). There are some AWESOME scholarships out there, for those who are willing to search for the money. Why should it hurt at all?
(To clarify: about half that involved a contract to work for a year after graduation, which explains why I am in an analytical lab now.)
Inert intelligence is the paradigm of institutional racism. UC/Berkeley, Boalt School of Law, alumni (and, of course, alumnae) reunion. I was in the audience with my sweetie when it squeaked down from the podium. The only White boys in the room were up at the dias or significant others.
No competent person is Officially qualified for anything good in life other than to give, at gunpoint, to the deserving. Have a nice future.
The reasoning goes like the students would take their class attendance and their grades more seriously if they felt they were paying for them with their own money. There are several problems with this line of reasoning – the price monopoly + the leverage the school has (and frequently abuses), the unequal wealth and stipend situation of students and so on.
I would like to see all undergrad students getting a fixed-amount loan from the government, irrespective of the wealth of the students faminly, the money that would cover something like 70% of average tuition and would have to be repaid only by the students that failed to graduate.
Why irrespective of wealth? Shouldn’t poor motivated students get extra help? (and this is not socialism). Otherwise they may not be able to attend even with the loan, if they are too poor to pay the difference. Rich students may be able to pay the extra amount from their own pockets.
I take it back, then – no money for anyone you stupid kids; My hardworking CEO dad has his income skimmed off and redistributed to support your bum dads. You have been an utter waste of all that foodbank infant formula we gave you.
Yeah, I’d cut out the wealthiest 25% of the population. Damned if the Paris Hiltons of the world deserve a free ride…
I second…no, third the assertion. Impecunious students should get more help. Yay for “socialised education”.
Rule 1: Don’t get married (at least to someone not a student).
Rule 2: Do really well in school.
Unfortunately my wife didn’t follow either of these – we will be roughly $40K in the red when she is done, at a public school no less (6 years). If you can do really well, I think some of the better schools have really good aid, but if not, you might be up a creek sans paddle. I don’t know if it would have been better elsewhere, although she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to have English taught by someone who could neither speak nor teach English well (and not surprisingly, but I guess miraculously) was not a professor.
Us white, upper middle class mediocre-GPA (I hate everything non-science, like English and foreign language) male students lack the privilege to get the really awesome scholarships you speaketh of.
But I did get a research job with killer pay due to my
beliefdelusion that I’m a specialist. Not $30K, but still a win! in my book.Not true! Half was from agreeing to work for a year after graduation, and about the other half was from making the SAT my bitch. Of course, I had to attend the state school in my backyard to collect on that… (It had nothing to do with race or gender. Don’t be another whiny white man–you’ll turn into Uncle Al. And NO ONE wants that.)
Yay for research jobs! The best way to put yourself through college. I wish I saw more available that weren’t biological, though.