December 2011
Obama signing NDAA 'with reservations' is like a...
Truth =/
Resolutions
Not to be a bum.
Whisky’s made for drinkin’
kitchenknivesandcherrybombs:
Morphine - Take Me...
Bad Graphs →
Blog post from Megan McArdle - Ending the Infographic Plague.
I think I have seen every one of these infographs on tumblr. Breaks down all the pictures and shows how the numbers can be warped or even fabricated.
New Hobby
Pyrography.
Found a new soldering iron for dirt cheap on ebay - 10 different tips and adjustable temperature settings, booyah.
I wonder how hard it would be to make my own log cabin…
Are any y’all familiar with microelectronics or biomechanics?
“It is my contention that limited government is a floating abstraction which has...”
– Objectivism and The State, An Open Letter to Ayn Rand by Roy A. Childs, Jr. (via stillmindstillcosmos)
Just got into the biomedical engineering program.
Think it might be time to grow up now.
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion, when you...”
– Ayn Rand (via windingroadsblindinglights)
“Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to...”
– Albert Jay Nock (via marketorder)
That part there in the middle… I’m struck by that too.
Oh, so you’re a policeman and you beat people as an official though you’d never do it as a man?
Oh, so you’re in the military and you KILL people as an official though you’d never do it as a man?
Then you...
“The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly...”
– George Orwell in “Revenge is Sour”, Tribune (1945)
Firefly marathon on Science Channel
Don’t mind if I do.
“The record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative...”
– Milton Friedman
Trying to understand some of this theoretical physics has really screwed with my perception of reality.
Cops Tied 62-Year-Old Man to a Chair, Gagged Him,... →
laliberty:
…the horrifying story of Nick Christie, a 62-year-old Ohio man who was detained by the Lee County (FL) Sheriff’s Office for being publicly intoxicated. While Christie’s wife asked that he be taken to the hospital, Lee County cops decided instead to strip Christie naked, tie him to a chair, cover his face, and then pepper spray him repeatedly, until he died.
Naturally, none of the...
“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...”
– BiIl Hicks (via extra-tentacles)
Constitutional isomers of dimethyl ether, when blended with a combination of citric acids and disaccharides are damned tasty.
Whiskey sours all day.
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
-John Green
This man speaks the truth.
