Happy Pi Day everyone! It is a day where we all give thanks for all of our favorite circular objects that would not be possible without pi. I am thankful for elliptical orbits without which our Earth would be thrown into the vast frozen wasteland of the universe. What are you thankful for?
Here are 10 Youtube videos about pi to get you through your day.
Or…It’s getting hot in here so take off all your clothes.
The Earth is getting warmer. The Earth is getting warmer faster than ever before. Much faster. The line of increase has a slope much closer to infinity than it does to zero. In a rational world, this information would be devastating. We don’t live in a rational world and we definitely don’t live in a rational country. Our country is stuck with people who sit on our science committees and think the Earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is “controversial” and climate change is unproven and seem to think that science is a scam like homeopathy.
If we don’t do something soon we are doomed. And by “we” I mean people living on the coasts mostly. But there can’t be more than a billion of them so I’m sure it won’t be that big of a deal. People away from the coasts will just have to deal with alternating torrential rains and droughts and various other weather anomalies. Again, no big deal.
Oh, wait, no it’s not. Hamilton County in Ohio filed charges of voter fraud against three people who voted illegally in this past election. Three. Out of 800,000 residents. Two filled out absentee ballots for recently departed acquaintances (one was actually a nun!) and the third was a poll worker who voted on behalf of relatives. There are an undisclosed handful of others that have yet to be charged.
Please note: Exactly zero of these nefarious individuals would have been caught by voter ID laws. I find it transcendentally funny that the same people who argue for a smaller government are usually the ones that scream for laws to be enacted for a problem that there is no proof actually exists.
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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars
The South is messed up. The South is beautiful. Those two things often go hand in hand in this world.
As you may or may not know, I am keeping a list of fascinating people that I think I would like to have in my neighborhood. Well, add Elizabeth Warren to that list. Why? Because she keeps saying stuff like this:
If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you go to jail. But evidently, if you launder nearly a $1 billion for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night…I think that’s fundamentally wrong.
Sadly, Elizabeth Warren is just the second woman in my neighborhood. This inequality cannot stand. I plan a massive affirmative action initiative to get to know all the just as qualified women and get them into my neighborhood. Because that’s the kind of elitist, left wing, hippie liberal I am.
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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars
A movie based solely on nostalgia. And opportunism. Don’t forget opportunism.
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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars
There are giants in the sky. There are big tall terrible awesome scary wonderful giants in the sky!
What happens when you come to a conclusion even a child can understand it? You get subjected to the vilest racist and sexist attacks, of course.
Q: Shouldn’t women be able to carry guns to protect themselves from being raped?
A: You shouldn’t put the onus on women to protect themselves any more than you should tell women to dress a certain way or look a certain way to prevent rape. You should focus more on the rape culture.
That’s the gist of the conversation. For that, Zerlina Maxwell was subject to an enormous amount of harassment. But god forbid you suggest that guns aren’t the answer.
What’s annoying is that, like every argument for guns I’ve ever heard, it’s a stupid question. First off, women usually know their rapist. Thus, their guard is already down and the gun is likely not even on their person (unless, I guess, they’re gun fetishists). Second, strangers don’t go running up to women screaming, “I’m going to rape you!” Guns require some sort of distance to be effective. But maybe women should just assume everyone is a rapist and pull their gun on anyone that makes them nervous? Third, wouldn’t pepper spray or a knife be just as effective and not as deadly a deterrent?
So, the History Channel is apparently showing a “history of the bible” mini-series. This dude sums it up for you so you don’t have to waste your time. NSFW language.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUOg5F886xw&feature=youtube_gdata_player]So, last night I had a dream. In it, some friends and I were trying to get somewhere. The ticket agent at the airport said that she can get us on a flight that would take us there and, if we would just have a seat, she’ll get us on it momentarily.
We all sit down and the ticket agent proceeds to help other people. No matter what destination these people want to reach, she tells them that they should get on our airplane. “Hi, I’m trying to get to Chicago.” “Oh, well, this plane doesn’t go there but it’ll get you closer, let me get you a ticket.” “Hi, I’m trying to get to Antarctica.” “You should get on this plane, it’s going in your general direction.” And they all would get on.
My subconscious is apparently trying to tell me that sometimes you need to take steps to reach your goal instead of trying to reach your goal right away. Of course, I have no idea to what goal my subconscious is referring. Stupid subconscious.
Then again, I was actually able to reach my goal in one hop in the dream. So maybe my subconscious was just mocking all those people who get sidetracked when trying to reach their goal. In which case, my subconscious is kind of an ass.