sigh

[juldea]

I think my point is made. People got offended... or not even offended, just wanted to "fight a stereotype" and therefore insulted someone else and now everyone is in a bad mood and thinks everyone else hates them. CHILL, people. Don't be so touchy.

Chase, I can't think of a single instance where I've thought you were a bad person. We disagree on some things, but I don't think you're bad or evil.

On to other news...

I heard this read on the radio today (woo for 90.1 classical), and think it's really neat. It doesn't come across as well in text, but still a valid point.

Pad Thai makes thai iced tea by putting half & half, not coconut milk, into tea.

I had more stuff to say, but the sheer inanity of the whole Livejournal thing has just emptied my brain.

Comments

[vambot5.livejournal.com]

yeah!!!! I listened to the streaming version of that speech. I don't know exactly what to say about it, other than that I fully agree with what was said. certainly, I always got frustrated in science courses because I would ask questions that the teachers could never answer, or wouldn't answer. Typically the former. my biology class was a new teacher who didn't know biology. she made mistakes all the time, and then tried to convince us that we misheard her. I asked her questions all the time, and she never knew the answers. In chemistry and physics, there were always areas that we just learned were not good for questions because the teachers didn't know the answer. Of course, there was also the problem in school that when the school system changed, the teachers ended up teaching subjects they didn't know. mr. yohn, my chem teacher, had taught physical science before. he alwasy asked chem questions of mr. waldenville in class. mr waldenville was a former chemistry teacher. he was teaching physics. he would always ask questions of mr. fix. mr fix retired. see the problem?

also (and this always bugs me), teachers make things harder by trying so hard to make them easier. mr. waldenville went so far out of his way of avoiding calculus that he ended up telling us things that were just plain wrong.

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now then... I got distracted thinking about the standard model of particles and can't remember where I was heading. I'll call it good.

"it's good"

--chris

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Certainly I agree that what my problem with high school science was, was that it was all just memorization with no underlying form (as this essay/speech implies). It wasn't until physics that I was really inspired by science, sadly.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

wow. it wasn't till physics that i thought maybe science wasn't the field for me.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

You damn humanities person ;)

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

just being non-physics and having ended up with an english degree doesn't make me a humanities person. chemistry and math (though i've never done math on the level that most everybody else has) are relatively easy for me, and interesting, too.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Note the ;) . Relatively equal to a "pfft" ;)

Also, the fact that I'm a LETTERS major. ;)

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

pfft!

i am just too sensitive about my physics inabilities. i think that's the real problem. that, and i haven't had sex in god knows how long.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

You and I should start a club. I'm sensitive about my inabilities in higher-level physics than your physics, but you've been laid more recently.

Is "more recently" grammatically correct?

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

no, and yes.
yes, i think it's grammatically correct, and no, i haven't had sex since early october. unless you had a celibate last visit to boston...

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Um, I thought you had sex right before he left..

well well

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

maybe *he* had sex right before he left, but it wasn't with me.
i was still in the states.

Re: well well

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I must be really confused ... well I know I am, I really did know that when you returned he was already gone... but there was some time recently when you talked about the two of you having sex and I thought it was more recent than my Boston trip. *shrug*