What a Weird World
Deep in space, a fire burns. It is not an ordinary fire. It is the heat of uncountable gazillions of tiny pairs of protons and electrons being squished together...
Author: capnrefsmmat
Nerd Poetry
This is what happens when you tell a nerd to write poetry. ‘Twas a warm summer day in La-La Land, Fields of grass swayed lazily in the breeze, The cool wi...
List of Loopiness
Kommandant of commas Sultan of spelling Advocate of adverbs Adjutant of adjectives Savant of style King of correctness Guru of grammar Partisan of participles M...
WordPress Upgrade
WordPress MU on blogs.scienceforums.net has now been upgraded to WordPress MU 2.7. You should notice that your admin screen has been drastically re-vamped and r...
The Insanity
You can tell there’s something wrong with our system of keeping GPAs based on class average — i.e. out of 100 instead of out of the 4-point scale &#...
Authentication Sucks
For a while I’ve been thinking about the classic Internet dilemma: authentication. For trust to work on the Internet, you need to (a) be able to verify th...
It’s So Complexified
I wonder if, twenty years from now, our computers will be amazingly simple intuitive touchscreen thingies like they always show on Star Trek, or ludicrously com...
Textbooks suck
Today I was looking through my introductory calculus textbook* for no particular reason. Well, I say introductory, but I think that’s a particularly bad c...
Musical Complexity
My family likes classical music. It’s just the way we are. I grew up listening to all sorts of classical composers, from Strauss to Gershwin, and I got us...