IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE

•July 24, 2010 • Comments Off

Due to popular demand (haha), I have used a revive on this blog so that it is alive again. Or more accurately, not dead. Now, if you know anything about Pokemon, you will know that that means this blog is now at half health instead of full health and that the rest of this post will likely be about Pokemon.

On a side note, the reason you died while reading the last post was because something used toxic on your keyboard and you decided to touch all over it with your fingers, so you were poisoned and died. If you cleaned your keyboard more often than one a never, you may not have died. But not that it matters, because knowing things “does not establish the existence of self-awareness of an independent character in animals whose self-awareness is solely a product of external experience” as my kind seventh degree philosopher friend Stuart Smith informs me, in reference to the mirror test (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test). Which means if you look in the mirror and you conclude that the dead person you see is actually you despite how you clearly remembered being alive right before last losing your consciousness, you may not actually be dead because philosophy doesn’t care what you think.

Actually, more importantly, I just cited Wikipedia. But really, that’s okay, because I heard through the belladonna vine that the highly qualified students over at MIT do it all the time. That, and belladonna has been shown to grow in vines (source: http://staplestaple.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/its-aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive/).

Actually, more importantly, I just cited myself. But really, that’s okay, because if your mind worked in strange ways and if you knew a lot about Pokemon (or were just really damn smart), you would know that belladonna is also known as nightshade, which is a Pokemon move WHICH MEANS WE’RE GETTING BACK TO POKEMON LOL.

So. What of Pokemon you ask. Well, today I’m going to talk to you about Weezing, otherwise known as three joined blobs of something filled with explosive gases and explosive paradoxes. If the gas leak and subsequent explosion don’t make your head asploade, then the paradoxes will.

Anyway, here’s a picture for reference:

Actually, forget about Weezing. Let’s use Koffing instead. Koffing is way cooler, and since Koffing = Weezing/3, the amount of paradox he contains is much more manageable for our tiny paradox-prone brains.

Picture for reference:

Actually, I’ve started four paragraphs in this post with “actually.”

Anyway, I’ve started three So Koffing is supposedly able to float around because it is filled with paradoxes lighter-than-air gases. Which means his density is less than that of air, or approximately 1.2kg/m^3.

However, let’s look at his statistics:
Weight: 1kg
Height: 0.6m

Obviously, we can’t accurately calculate Koffing’s volume because calculus doesn’t exist in the world of Pokemon. So let’s just assume Koffing takes up as much volume as possible, so 0.6m * 0.6m * 0.6m = 0.216m^3. The same volume of air would weigh about 0.26kg, whereas Koffing actually weighs 1kg. In conclusion, Koffing can’t possibly float and is thus no more than a floating, smelly paradox. NO WONDER HE LEARNS EXPLOSION.

To all you Pokemon fans out there, I realize I may have shattered all your dreams about the wonderful world of Pokemon by showing that it cannot possibly exist as commonly described. But that’s okay. Not like you were reading this blog anyway.

But really, if Pokemon were real we’d be overrun by Grimers and Koffings every day because of all the pollution you generate. Aren’t you glad that Pokemon can’t exist because it doesn’t have calculus?

hi

•March 14, 2010 • Comments Off

I now pronounce this blog dead.
Time of death: some time today

In the time it took you to read this blog post, you have died as well.

It’s snowing long cats! ahhhhhh

•February 10, 2010 • 1 Comment

This is what I did with my snow day:

Instead of other things.

I Don’t Know Whether the Weather Will Allow Us to Weather the Whithering Winter Weather Conditions.

•January 29, 2010 • 2 Comments

Not right now anyway, but I will later when I wake up tomorrow morning and check for school closings.

In a related news vein that can only be reached by mountaintop blasting, the Science Bowl that I arbitrarily signed four friends and myself up for is this Saturday. Also, some scholarship testing thing is on the same date at the same time. In other words, CONFLICT.

Normally, the weather defies prediction and never really does what you want it to do. This time however, the weather trolled by threatening snow so the Science Bowl got rescheduled to a later date. And in the case that schools are closed tomorrow, the scholarship testing will be rescheduled as well.

It would really suck and be really ironic if the scholarship testing got rescheduled to the same date to which Science Bowl got rescheduled.

Luckily, the scholarship test’s reschedule date is not the same day.

How convenient!

Happy New Decade

•January 1, 2010 • Comments Off

I am wishing all of my two (two) blog readers a happy new decade roughly thirty minutes early local time.  Despite this wish however, the new decade will probably not be happy because stuff just doesn’t turn out that way.

A new decade also implies a new year, and the new decade year will probably not be happy because stuff just doesn’t turn out that way.  I, personally, will also be looking forward to a crappy year because bad things will probably happen because stuff just turns out that way.

I will, however, be starting it off with a party (sort of), which is highly relevant to the topic at hand.

In other news, this has been the first blog post in a while because I have been working very diligently on college applications sleeping all day.  The two are mutually exclusive and are affected my a multitude of confounding factors, so attempting to predict either will be essentially impossible without a tiny confidence interval.

The BEST Post

•December 9, 2009 • 1 Comment

So, regional BEST competition.

Let us never speak of this again.  Lest the Somalian pirates come for me.

Busy Bossy Bison

•November 26, 2009 • 2 Comments

So the past few weeks have been pretty busy.  Aside from the usual crap, I’ve also got work for this competition with some friends, the BEST Competition.  Contrary to popular belief, it is not the best competition, and I am not super excited about it as to capitalize it.  It’s actually an acronym (nowai) standing for Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology.  We’ve been spending nearly all our time over the weekend working on it, so I no longer have much time on the weekend until the final competition on Dec 04.

 

But being super busy hasn’t stopped me from procrastination.  In fact, I wrote an eight page (sort of; also nine pages sort of depending on how you look at it) research paper Sunday night while it was assigned like two weeks prior.  I then proceeded to screw around on the internet Monday after school instead of studying for the three tests I had the next day.

 

Anyway, we’re building a robot for the BEST Competition.

This is our robot

Just kidding.  It looks a bit better than that (well, actually, not really).  In addition, we were supplied with a box of materials including the necessary electronics to build the robot (FO’ FREE) so really, it can’t be too hard, right?  Yeah, well, that didn’t really stop us from failing hard.  Likely because none of us had any experience with this and as such had no idea what to do, things didn’t work out all that well.

This is our robot, for reals this time

There are two robots in the above picture.  Ours is the one of the left, in case you couldn’t tell.  And if you were the kid in red, you wouldn’t be able to tell because it would be on your right.

 

More news after the competition on the fourth.

 
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