WOOHOO!!! SNOW EVERYWHERE!!! That's more like it! Just in time for Christmas too!

(It's not done yet...)

I refuse to answer your hypothetical, Albert, on the grounds that, quite frankly, it's stupid. (In the same sort of way that I refused to answer Beck's pointed "Do you do Christmas" question.)

Suprnova is down. LokiTorrent is a possible other source, but it requires registration.

On a related note, Tycho on the filesharing debate:

so what the hell happened to the weekend? I fell into the hermit hovel and didn't escape until Sunday eve. Sorry for missing all the fabulous bashes that were going on. I could give you a string of (real) excuses, but that still doesn't make up for it. I will eventually show up to a LIME gig, promise! AD, happy birthday... again, sorry for the lack of attendance.

In my hermit hovel time, though, a paper did get written (and researched), a sock monkey was sewn and given away, my family's tree got decorated, and my room became an even larger depository of unsorted stuff.

What on Earth happened to December? I have four days to make three and a half presents. I don't have any idea how it's all going to get done. especially my brother's cookies, really, he's home all the time now, and it's not like I have another weekend left. so much for a pre-holiday social life. meh...

oh, hey, I'm still planning on having that mid-break get-together, so if any of you have a preferred date out of um the 28, 29 and 30 let me know.

um, Paras, interesting changes to the posting board...

by teresa he means Ray's sister.
good job, A. good job.


Taylor, i'm working in the afternoon and hopefully buying your guys' Christmas gifts so, during the day is a no go. sorry. dewey gets back sometime tonight, so maybe later or something?

Who is Duke? Are you a thin, white Duke?

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam. The answer by one student was so profound that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, ...

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.

Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell, because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you , and taking into account the fact that she slept with me last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct, leaving only Heaven.

Thereby proving the existence of a Divine Being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

Oh shit, one OTHER thing. Remember I said how I think that Kim (the bingo girl) was on the Whitey Houston track "I Got Fucked By Liberty Mutual?". Yeah, well I was totally right.

And remember how I said the Nova used to be a beautiful car but then it got ruined when they made it ugly? This month's VICE magazine has an article dedicated to just that. I'M SO GOOD.

I'm basically unstoppable right now. I'm a juggernaut full steam ahead.

Also, I forgot to mention that it's totally blizzarding outside right now.

BTW: It's punk rock SUPER Bingo this Tuesday at New City. By SUPER this means that it's going to be downstairs (instead of upstairs in the likwid lounge), and there's going to be THREE bingo girls instead of one!!! Not only that, but I've totally got the inside scoop and I can tell you in advance that they'll be wearing slutty santa suits which are being sewn as I write. I think you'd be stupid to miss this.

Besides, I'LL be there. What more can you ask for?