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kalpurna at 01:26am on 10/09/2008
kalpurna at 01:26am on 10/09/2008I am UNBELIEVABLY bad about updating my LJ these days. Blahhhh I just have nothing to say ever. I may or may not have high blood pressure. Fascinating.
Oh, hey, so I don't know if I'm incredibly late on this; his album apparently came out in 2006, but whatever. Mickey Avalon! My friend played me his stuff and I am kind of in love. My favorites of his are Jane Fonda and My Dick. (MP3s provided for sampling purposes only, please delete these from your computer after 24 hours, etc.) It's NSFW laid-back dirty intensely catchy hip-hop by the son of Holocaust survivors, and I'm into that.
Hmmm, what else do I have to say. I know the 10% of our brains thing carries poetic weight, Pete Wentz, but it's not TRUE. It's one of the most widely-spread totally wrong scientific facts out there. If you blog about the Inuit having 200 words for snow we might have to break up a little bit.
OH OH AND ALSO. I have this thing where when I come across something from a category of things that I generally expect to suck balls, and it is actually non-faily, I get REALLY excited about it and talk about it a LOT. If you've been around for a while, you may remember my statistics textbook last year and how I wanted to propose marriage on the astral plane? Well, it's happening again, but this time with an airport. You guys. The Detroit airport is the stuff of my DREAMS. I wish I could arrange flights with longer delays if they could only go through the ♥Detroit airport♥. It is soothingly lit! The design aesthetic is impeccable! There are fountains! Whenever I wanted a departure board, there it was! The acoustics are non-invasive and yet perfect! There are large flat-screen TVs and a silent bright red tram under the high ceiling and lots of moving walkways and carpeted areas with comfortable chairs and ugh, just, oh my god. I am getting verklempt thinking about it. Airport of my sooooul.
The LHC "controversy" has reminded me about how when scientists want to get bitchy they talk about "broad scientific consensus." What that means is "WE ALL HAD A MEETING AND DECIDED YOU'RE WRONG." God, you guys, evolution exists, global warming is real, and tiny black holes will not eat the earth. TRUST US. WE ARE GOOD AT THIS. JEEZ.
In conclusion, if you want to stand in 29˚ seawater for an hour, this boot will help.
Oh, hey, so I don't know if I'm incredibly late on this; his album apparently came out in 2006, but whatever. Mickey Avalon! My friend played me his stuff and I am kind of in love. My favorites of his are Jane Fonda and My Dick. (MP3s provided for sampling purposes only, please delete these from your computer after 24 hours, etc.) It's NSFW laid-back dirty intensely catchy hip-hop by the son of Holocaust survivors, and I'm into that.
My dick, VIP
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Hmmm, what else do I have to say. I know the 10% of our brains thing carries poetic weight, Pete Wentz, but it's not TRUE. It's one of the most widely-spread totally wrong scientific facts out there. If you blog about the Inuit having 200 words for snow we might have to break up a little bit.
OH OH AND ALSO. I have this thing where when I come across something from a category of things that I generally expect to suck balls, and it is actually non-faily, I get REALLY excited about it and talk about it a LOT. If you've been around for a while, you may remember my statistics textbook last year and how I wanted to propose marriage on the astral plane? Well, it's happening again, but this time with an airport. You guys. The Detroit airport is the stuff of my DREAMS. I wish I could arrange flights with longer delays if they could only go through the ♥Detroit airport♥. It is soothingly lit! The design aesthetic is impeccable! There are fountains! Whenever I wanted a departure board, there it was! The acoustics are non-invasive and yet perfect! There are large flat-screen TVs and a silent bright red tram under the high ceiling and lots of moving walkways and carpeted areas with comfortable chairs and ugh, just, oh my god. I am getting verklempt thinking about it. Airport of my sooooul.
The LHC "controversy" has reminded me about how when scientists want to get bitchy they talk about "broad scientific consensus." What that means is "WE ALL HAD A MEETING AND DECIDED YOU'RE WRONG." God, you guys, evolution exists, global warming is real, and tiny black holes will not eat the earth. TRUST US. WE ARE GOOD AT THIS. JEEZ.
In conclusion, if you want to stand in 29˚ seawater for an hour, this boot will help.
exhausted
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lol. Science wank is funny to me.
Ok, when I was 7 I believed that 10% thing. But then I grew up and got my facts right. Pete has obvs not progressed like I did.
That airport sounds super spiffy. ♥__♥
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GOD IT REALLY IS. It is like the anti-Atlanta.
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Atlanta's airport? *hiss*
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I know nothing of science wank, but your description of it is fantastic.
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It's not even that blatantly wanky, but I grew up around enough scientists to know what the code words are. Trust me: "consensus" is code for "you are a dumbass". *g*
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(I maybe posted a small love letter to it the first time I wound up there a couple years ago myself, so I am RIGHT THERE WITH YOU on that.)
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God, I am SO GLAD I am not alone on this. FANDOM OF TWO. ♥
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should be on a t-shirt.
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You make me want to visit Detroit Airport, what the hell? Honeymoon destination, maybe.
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Dude, yes. There is a hotel attached! You would never have to leave!!!!!!!
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lol lying liar who lies. You'd write him a comment telling him he was wrong or possibly decide it was adorable, depending on the context. (What if he said, "the eskimos have 200 words for snow. i dont understand why there arent 200 words for patrick but im working on coming up with 150 more." huh? What then?)
Even though I hate the Philly airport, the free internet for student thing makes up for most of its failiness. But fountains!?! Jealous.
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I would be lying if I said I didn't leave a comment explaining how he's wrong on the ten percent thing, SIGH
..................free internet for students???
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and damn you for making me think of it because now I want that fic.Yes! My sister told me about it and I got on successfully (eventually- the system was down for repair for part of the day) last time I flew out. You go to the little information desks or help desks before you go through security and show them your student id card and they take your name down before handing you a little card with connection information, but last time I didn't need to use it because the network let me on without it, so now I have a one time free use ATT hotspot code. I plan on getting them every time whether I need internet or not because they're good for like 3 months or something and I know there are places around here that do wireless through that company.
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Also is my favorite.
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I pretty much agree with your entire post, although I've yet to experience the wonder of Detroit airport, but it sounds fabulous - and I love that your love for it is so profound! And ugh. That 10% thing pisses me off mostly because SO MANY people still believe it - and tell me I'M wrong if I say it's a stupid dated non-truth. Woe. On the plus side, we didn't all inexplicably cease to exist today. Awww, the sensationalists will be so upset.
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TO BE FAIR, it will be ramping up slowly over the next 6 months. There's still time! Maybe we should all bookmark http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ just to be safe.
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*goes to take deep calming breaths*