hylian42

So... like... y'know... if I, like, smoke a few, man, I'll, like, definitely let you, like, in on the deal, man. Wow.

But probably I won't be smoking a few, alas... the old brain needs to be working at top capacity these days, and dope interferes with that. Ah, well... one of these days! (Funny how so many of my comments these days seem to presuppose that I'll actually finish my effing degree someday... all Good Things in life seem to be post-degree... sigh.)

On the video game front, I'm aching to try Half-Life 2... but I must be strong!!!

Spelunking... I'd love to give it (more of) a try sometime... but it'll probably have to wait until this <insert expletive> degree is done...

RE: spelling: The problem is too many letters of specific types. If I use American spelling, I'll be left with a surplus of U's and various other letters, which I won't know how to deal with. I spell in "Canadian-style" so that the surplus will not become an ecological issue! We don't want all those extraneous "U's" cluttering up our seashores, interfering with seabirds, now... :-)

UTI=Urinary Tract Infection......

I'm going to try to make it to disco bowling

sigh your way over here to write something down =)

No one ever learns from history. Why do we even bother requiring it in school anymore?

master Tristen's gonna be out for a bit - hes had a few nasty turn of events thrown at him and isnt doing all that great - i promised id let his friends know hell be out for a while - please send your best wishes - im sure hed appreciate em

haha, that guy's journal entries are great!

That Calvin... what a kid. I never had insights like that when I was six.

Oh, and about Ashanti... (pause for Google image search)... yup, she can be my sexy mercenary priestess/demon slayer any time!

haha, ya that is a bit annoying. thats why i never do it, oh wait i dont know how to do it, maybe thats really why i dont ever do it.

I don't know if the intelligence distribution is symmetric or not. I know that IQ tests are designed to produce a normal distribution of scores, but that doesn't mean much. I've met more smart people than stupid ones, but I spend almost all my time at university, so my sample is biased.

The more I think about it, the more I think it doesn't make sense to represent intelligence as a single scalar quantity anyway. There are the obvious things like intuition versus logical deduction, and abstract math ability versus concrete engineering ability, and so on, but there are also more subtle things. I read a paper a while ago about a guy who had sustained damage to one particular part of his brain. His ability to reason about risk situations was unimpaired (IF I do this THEN I'll probably die SO don't do it), but his ability to reason about logically identical trust situations was completely trashed (e.g. IF I give Bob my money THEN he'll steal it SO don't do it.. but he'd go ahead and do it). He was studied fairly extensively (neurologists love people with interesting brain injuries... ). It appears in this case that logically identical operations are handled by different regions of the brain, casting into serious doubt the notion of a "general logic processor" in there that's used for all kinds of things, and presumably has something to do with "intelligence". Another example is face recognition versus other kinds. There's evidence that we have extremely specialized wetware for recognizing faces... much more accurate than our normal recognition facilities. So somebody could be really good at recognizing faces, but terrible at general cognitive tasks involving recognition. I think we're going to need some kind of many-dimensional space here...

If I don't know anyone, I get all shy. Then I don't talk to anyone and feel sad afterwards for preventing myself from having a good time. I know how you feel!

Sometimes I wish I could remove the memories. Such as:
magic

Bittersweet.

Damn, I just pimped my journal on yours. I think that makes me a shameless cyborg hussy.

it's certainly my favourite kind of chocolate.

Very exciting.

I like Wendy's. What kind of burgers did you get? I am quite partial to the junior bacon cheese burgers with mustard. *dies of a heart attack*

haven't read the series yet, but it is on my to-do list.....

weehee got a link pro back! how you doin man?

your pic sir

Heya, I plan on seeing it.

How's life?

maybe love is unattainable, but a fleshlight isn't.

then again, a fleshlight is just wierd.

happy birthday here have a monkey

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! We let you decide the election!