The cycle of life – one minute you’re at the top of everything, the next you’re at the bottom. Aside from the financial aspect of everything, I’d pretty much say that I’m at the top right now.
Half-life
Awww… looks like the site died. Now where will I get my morning laughs?
It’s actually a shame, since it really had the potential to be a “good” critic site. People will always have their opinions on the anonymity issue (or the sheer significance of a “rant” site, which is pretty much exactly what it was) – so I won’t even touch that with a 20-foot pole.
It’s all relative
Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity
Oringally posted on Slashdot: “…a new paper by scientists at the University of Victoria has demonstrated that one of the prime observational justifications for the existence of dark matter can be explained without any dark matter at all, by a proper use of general relativity!”
via digg
Assuming this is true (which I think it could very well be) – it’s nice to see that Occam’s Razor, and Einstein’s amazing foresight have been proved effective once again.
And, if you’ll allow me to take a somewhat tangential remark, take it further to a metaphysical point of view and it can segue to an “it depends” situation… and we all know how popular an answer that is.
What camera is the best? What’s the best car? What is the ideal man/woman? Is x form of government good? What’s the best conduct for competition?
I’m beginning to wonder if this too, is answer the age-old question: Why are we here?
I must be really bored… to be coming up with [pathetic, corny] digressions such as these.
Seriously, going back to the actual topic, I dare anyone to try visualizing the paper’s abstract. I wish they’d include pictures so my small brain would understand it better.
This is FUN!
There’s this blog that popped up that was supposed to “shake up” an institutionalized forum. I find myself visiting it more often recently because partly because of the “sensationalism,” as one commenter put it (everybody loves to read about dirt hehehehe)
Another was the fact that the author managed to raise some really legitimate concerns. I respect the official forum’s rules and understand why some things are simply not discussed for the sake of maintaining order – it being an officially recognized Apple forum and all. Regardless, people are still itching to talk about some sensitive topics and quite frankly, in a sick twisted sort of way, I’m glad it was started.
I’ve been speaking my mind there too once in a while, but I didn’t choose to be anonymous – as a result, I’ve been subject to the same flame everyone was afraid of getting burned with. Do I regret it? Hell no! At the end of it all, I am secure that I my heart was in the right place… people may not agree with me, but at least I wasn’t chocolate covered horse-shit 😉
The only bummer is that everyone else is anonymous, so I don’t get to see which people I should listen to or just ignore. Everyone thinks differently and I’ve been enlightened as much as vindicated in the short time I’ve visited and contributed. I think that’s a beautiful thing. But really, there are some people there that are simply not worth one’s time.
Beautiful game
For a split second, I was contemplating shifting my UAAP attention to DLSU-FEU games instead of my normal ADMU-DLSU matchup preference. Iba talaga maglaro yung mga team na to… hindi ka magsisisi kahit sino manalo.
Sayang man na natalo La Salle, considering that Arwind played rather lousy (considering his average stats), they still won… that just goes to show that they were the better team this time around.
And when Isip was asked na ano naiisip niya the last minutes/seconds of the game, he said ultimately that “God is good.” And I simply smiled… because as much as I wanted DLSU to stretch it to a 3rd game (and win), I look at my life right now and just had to agree with Mr. Isip.
Kudos to FEU, you truly deserved to win. See you next season! And thank you for giving me a free dinner (it was my friend’s treat since FEU won)
Note to self: Never watch the game in Katips anymore – watching in that place jinxes everything! Unless you want free dinner, or plan on betting against DLSU hahahaha.