Oil leak in the Gulf
Yes I realize everyone and their mother is making a post or some sort of comment about the leak. And it seems like everyone and their mother’s mother has an idea of how to stop it. So why hasn’t that succeeded? Well quite simply there are two reasons
1) It has occurred in deep water and thus is difficult to access.
2)People realize their ideas are stupid and hope they fade into obscurity before anyone has time to mock them mercilessly.
My own belief is the latter. Noone has come up with a sufficient answer to the problem, some of the ideas are at best stop gaps and at worst dangerous.
Unfortunately this came late because I forgot to hit publish and already BP has started siphoning the oil. HURRAY!!! SUCCESS! But wait, maybe this news is too good to be true. At least when they asked Glenn Beck he actually gave a good, although very republican response.
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Theory-craft Part Deux.
Today, the topic is -rolls dice- context. Many people have an annoying habit, with far more malicious consequences, of taking things out of context or of abreviating things in a way that changes the meaning. Do you remember in school how rumors start. One person is told something then they tell the next person and they tell another person and on it goes. Eventually it becomes a game of telephone and the final product is wildly different than the original.
For example today, I read this news article
therein a man states, “The courts have been clear: The rights of students in school are not the same as adults in society,”
I can easily change that to
“The courts have been clear: The rights of students… are not the same as adults…”
Not many words were removed, but enough to change the meaning, if you had read the latter line first, you would be angry wouldn’t you.
So I entreat you to get the full story before talking about it to others.
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Tags: Context, Out of it
Theorycrafting and Min-maxing,
This marks the first real post of this blog that actually has anything to do with theory crafting and min-maxing. To start it would be best to discuss what min-maxing really is.
Min-maxing if you read this Wikipedia article you will realize that at it’s base this blog is meant to discuss ways to be more desirable. Not necessarily in business or relationships. But in life ways that can help you across the board. This blog will jump between different parts of life and try to go across things that people do that are misanthropic.
There are several ways to find information to support min-maxing hypotheses, the first of which is through using the scientific method.
The scientific method consists of a few parts.
- Decide on a question, ask yourself something about how people interact with the world.
- Make a guess as to what would happen if you changed this,
- Find a way to collect quantifiable data about this,
- Get the data
- Make conclusions
So without further ado, the first topic will be about making the most of small amounts of finances. This is a practice in “frugality”. Discretionary spending of resources.
Since the target audience for this blog is high school students, I will suppose that you have access to about $20
Now there are a few things you could do with this money, and you have to think about how best to spend this money in terms of Risk vs Reward. Ideally you will find something that has a low risk (in this situation a low cost) and a high reward (Something that brings you a lot of joy.)
For high school students this means keeping your eyes open for events hosted by your school. Does the band have a concert? Often this is free. Does a senior have a showing of the movie they made? If nothing like this presents itself you need to expand your view to your community, parades, firework shows. Events at the park. Almost anything can be found for little money, at most you may have to pay an admission fee of a few dollars.
Frugality will allow you to save money for that date in a few weeks without sacrificing anything major in the present.
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Tags: Budget, Money
Some sort of a title.
Some sort of body text.
Mocking my teacher by taking their comments literally. Very little left to do right now, the class has made their respective blogs. Essentially, nothing left to do for the day.
This video is to wrap up my absolutely random post, it isn’t inappropriate you are ok to open this at school. It is quite funny.
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Tags: School
Copyright law, In the classroom
Of course it’s in the classroom… Even though the blogging assignment has not started yet, I am blogging in class.
Copyright law is fun, basically every picture taken ever is copyrighted the moment it is created. Now I am not completely sure on this, I think it may be an over-simplification. Works either way though for most people.
There are several ways to add pictures to your blog legally,
- Ask permission
- Buy it from a for profit organization,
- Take the picture yourself. No seriously, stop being lazy.
- Something called Copyleft as my teacher puts it, which is anything put anywhere that is meant to be distributed to people. Wikipedia. US government. Etc.
- My personal favorite. Anything before 1929, that was when you still had to register the copyright, which most people didn’t.
Photo shopping is not legit either. You do not get to say the picture is yours even if you change the hell out of it.
Wikipedia is not always fair game, this is because any idiot can upload to wikipedia. If it is put on wikipedia, it does not mean it is fair game.
Essentially, I just took notes on the lecture. Still it is pretty interesting. I think I am just going to make all the stuff myself, if I am going to post pictures, I’m going to do it on my own.
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Tags: Assignment, Blogging, Copyright, Law, Lecture, School
Bloggin in the classroom
As I am typing this my teacher is talking about the blogging assignment that I started this blog for. And which I haven’t posted on in… Too long.
Right now my teacher is talking about how blogging isn’t a personal journal but rather a sort of debate forum, or maybe a better way to say it is, people posting opinions on a topic laid out for them.
“In many ways a blog is like facebook, but not stupid.” I got off topic by an absolutely staggering comment from my teacher.
Now on the topic of personal-journal style blogs. Showing off his friends blog. Dadedadeda, apparently you can do it, if it is funny and uses pictures.
So what is blogging, if anyone reads this. Make a comment, makes me feel less like a lonely loser.
PS: Pretty much my teacher just said “There’s a Blog for that,” well actually I did, but he pretty much did >.<
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Tags: Blogging, School
Conspiracy Theories,
Never argue with a conspiracy theorist, ok? It’s stupid, I find it annoying, and you never succeed.
Why is it that you never succeed? The same reason as any sort of debate. There is no way to convince them they are wrong.
It is not a matter of stubborness, rather it is a matter of h
The Hominids.
ow deluded they are. If a man comes up to you and says the sky is red but the government wants you to believe it is blue so they can push their liberal agenda, how can you respond? How can you convince them they are wrong? Simply you cannot, you could say “Actually the sky is blue because (Insert Scientific Reasoning Here [ISRH])” but they can always retort with their thesis.
For example, “The earth is only10,000 years old!” And you would ask “what about dinosaurs.” to which you would hear “They died in the flood” and finally you would respond
O.o
Other times you cannot convince them because it is unverifiable. “Nazi’s are currently talking with sleeper cells of Islamic terrorists in the US, they worked together to coordinate the hijackings of the planes that caused 9/11″ one of the few retorts I can think of is “Nazis and Islamic Extremists do not get along,” The conspiracy theorist will retort with “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Here you can see a collection of 9/11 conspiracy theory.
So while you may think you are helping them see the “light” or the “truth” they will only leave that conversation reafirmed that they have seen the light and that the government or whatever other power has succeeded in hiding this event.
for the lazy assholes that will say TL;DR
Stop being pretentious assholes and ignore the conspiracy theorists, what harm are they doing?
Also Before you ask, I believe in evolution, a non-omnipotent creator or possibly non-present, and I think Darwin was misinformed in his theories but still applied the basis of evolution.
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Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Idiocy, Rant, Truth
The HSPE
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For those of you who do not know, the HSPE stands for High School Proficiency Exam. It is a new (read: easier) replacement for the WASL (Washington Assesment of Studen Learning) now, by law I am not allowed to give any information about the contents of the test. Or even about what topics it covers.
So instead I will say this,
I can not be expected to take a test, that uses biased articles, biased writing prompts and furthermore one that uses grammar that is in no way deemed correct. I hate to break it to you, but “remotest” is hardly a word, and the context it was used in was apalling. In fact it was so bad, I actually circled the word and made a comment.
If this test is supposed to tell the government officials how well our schools are doing, I would be ashamed of anything short of 100% from fully abled-students. I am ashamed of myself for being associated with anyone that would find this quiz challenging.
I thank you, and good night.
NOTE: It may be possible that this post contains grammatical errors, and no I do not know if it does, but people who publish tests to many persons at once, probably should at least try to make it as perfect as possible.
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Tags: Annoyed, Idiocy, Rant, School, Testing, Tests
Zombies
So, as this blog is titled RL Theory Crafting, I supppose I should do theory crafting ehh.
So the subject of the day, is Zombies! I mean it is the weekend of Z-day is it not? So, first we will make a cool little list.
- Defenses
- Weaponry
Alright, so thats a good start. So, for defenses Im thinking something like this
Gordon Freeman Zombie-Killer Extraordinare.
- Physical barriers should be solid and not require pain to be effective. Barbed wire is thus useless.
- Anything that creates difficult terrain is useful. IE. anything that can make a zombie trip or completely unable to get up
- Fortified entry points.
- Sound-proofed rooms,
- Bullet and shatter resistant glass (Prefarably none…)
The ideal defense would be effective against marauding humans as well as the undead. Next, we move onto weaponry.
- Single round shots, automatic and burst fire sucks. Remember you have to get a headshot
- Which reminds me, you need a tape recorder that says “BOOM! HEADSHOT!” for the morale boost.
- Melee weapons are extremely useful. Crowbars are Gordon Freemans best friend and yours too!
- Silent ranged weapons such as crossbows for the single zombie.
Alright, I’m tired of this.
So my day was pretty sweet yesterday, had a childhood friend over. She met the horses/dogs/chickens/ducks/peahen/guinea pig… all in all pretty fun. Probably the best time I have had for a few months.
So until next time -door busts down- OH CRAP ITS A ZOMBIE!
-rolls for initiative-
-grabs shotgun-…
This is Andelan done with his blog update for the day and trying to make a cool sign off phrase like the podcast people do!
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Blogging,
I created this blog at school mostly because my teacher wanted to make sure they would be able to do an assignment that would require a blog.
I then realized “Blogging might be fun and I can whine about stuff and just delete anything I don’t agree with.”
Yes my friends, the internet is a selective place. And in this my own haven, I am the master and can alter the reality of the world around me. School may be ending, but this is only a beginning… Partially because this will actually be an assignment now, but whatever.
In other news it is Z-day, or zombie day. And with class almost ending, it is time to imaginary shoot my zombie friends. I WILL BE THE VICTOR!!!
EDIT: In other other news. Meet Alexande he is my pixel art buddy. He will “level up” as I get bored. He will most likely go through many different changes through his life, so it will be interesting to see how he develops.
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Tags: Art, Bored, Fun, School
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