Have to take a brief hiatus,
friends can get a hold of me at www.facebook.com/ryan.altstatt , Steam: obsidianwolf87 (account)/ Decimus Marcus Cincinnatus (screenname), and Origin: obsidianwolf87 .
Moronic faculty at university suck. Don't teach an on campus class like an online class, with 80% of the work online. Give me assignments out of the damned textbook, give me handwritten tests! Not some online website that...
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this song always hits home with me like no other... too many parallels with how things always seem to work out.
This came across my facebook feed through the I fucking love science page and it's incredibly interesting about how kissing came about and why we kiss each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQbCXLUUj8&list=UU6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA
I cannot stress the importance of what Neil says here enough. THIS: is why I am a geek. THIS: is why I am a SCIENTIST by education. THIS: is why I'm so passionate about making Science FICTION into Science FACT. The notions of THIS short youtube piece by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the entirety of every single damned word from Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking......
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Figured I'd post a blog since I hadn't in a while. Things have been pretty rough recently with my family losing their house, I'm getting a place with a friend as soon as my income tax return gets posted to my account, I've been playing Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall and Titanfall and the Elder Scrolls Online Beta as well as started a new character on skyrim....
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Looks like things are ramping up toward my birthday on the 12th, looking forward to good time spent with good friends!
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
This is definitely a set of words that I already live by.
When I saw my 25 stupidly easy multiple-choice question 400-level Biochemistry I final today and was done in 15 minutes, I knew today was going to be a joke. Drove an hour to campus to take a fifteen minute final to drive an hour back and go to work for four and a half hours and deal with the "Certifiable People of Walmart" with every...
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