Saturday, January 12, 2008

Continuation

School has begun. Information density has reached criticality. I am now awash in the sea of ideas. Short form:

-Ron Paul's disappointing past associations with racists.
It turns out the Lew Rockwell was behind a bunch of it. I used to read articles at LRC quite often, but I was even then aware of a certain edge articles there possessed, a rage I could not understand. This has been an important experience for me, because never before have I invested so much of myself in politics. I hope the future is not quite so full of disillusionment, set against the encroaching power of the state.

-Random science knowledge
Solid state cooling? Totally awesome. I find myself thinking of ways to use thermoelectric cooling devices on spacecraft. Sonoluminescence and bubble fusion? I immediately imagine freak mutant pistol shrimp attacking submarines en mass with nuclear claws of pure destruction.

-I purchased my new textbooks, and I am already beginning to fear the subject of fluid dynamics. Page twenty already has five-term integrals, and illustrations with so many notes and so many Greek letters whose names I do not know, and I cringe. I may exaggerate, but so it goes.

-My radio shift at the school station is going to be assigned soon. In a few days, radio waves carrying my voice (and def funky beats) will beam into space, assuring my immortality in a way that is utterly inappreciable, yet still fun enough for me to think it interesting.

Blogging will be light, though I hope to eventually produce more substantial material. Blessed be.

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