Failure and Stuff
Today i had a test in chemistry. i didnt really know what it was on. ive been mostly sleeping through chemistry for the past two or so weeks, and i apparently missed some stuff.
for example: one problem wanted me to find the density of carbon monoxide at STP. I know what STP is, and i know what carbon monixide is and i know what density is, but, after literally minutes of thinking, i couldnt figure out how they went together. it would help if i knew the formula for density, but i didnt. so, i sat there for a while, thinking. finally i came to the conclusion that i most likely already bombed the test and i didnt care anyway. so i drew a picture of a cat in the answer box.
i told this to a few people, and the general response was that i should at least get some points for being creative.
thias got me thinking: what if cats were a unit of measure? Kind of like in those "eastern" countries where people use goats and sheep as legal tender, excpet not as money. like, i could tell you, "the earth is aproxomately 82739213 cats around." i guess i could do that anyway.
laguage is a funny thing. who sat down and decided what is a word and whats not? or, for that matter, who decided what words mean? there are a few calvin and hobbes comics that deal with this sort of thing. one of them has calvin "verbing" words. taking things and making them something you do. it's fun to think about.
this reminds me of conversations i have sometimes with my friend fried (pronounced freed). every once in a while we talk about things like infinity and particle accellerators. once he told me that if something ever goes wrong in a particle accellerator, a black hole could be formed right here on earth and destroy half the galaxy. then he told me that black holes are not holes at all, just matter that is so dense it sucks in light particles. it is so dense, he said, that a teaspoon would wiegh as much as a battleship.
that reminded me of the flaming lips song "a spoonful wieghs a ton," and now i wonder is wayne coyne is a scientist.
i also have that picture of the painting i wrote that poem about. ill put it up after im done playing world of warcraft (which i still need a cd key for, by the way...)
-dan
for example: one problem wanted me to find the density of carbon monoxide at STP. I know what STP is, and i know what carbon monixide is and i know what density is, but, after literally minutes of thinking, i couldnt figure out how they went together. it would help if i knew the formula for density, but i didnt. so, i sat there for a while, thinking. finally i came to the conclusion that i most likely already bombed the test and i didnt care anyway. so i drew a picture of a cat in the answer box.
i told this to a few people, and the general response was that i should at least get some points for being creative.
thias got me thinking: what if cats were a unit of measure? Kind of like in those "eastern" countries where people use goats and sheep as legal tender, excpet not as money. like, i could tell you, "the earth is aproxomately 82739213 cats around." i guess i could do that anyway.
laguage is a funny thing. who sat down and decided what is a word and whats not? or, for that matter, who decided what words mean? there are a few calvin and hobbes comics that deal with this sort of thing. one of them has calvin "verbing" words. taking things and making them something you do. it's fun to think about.
this reminds me of conversations i have sometimes with my friend fried (pronounced freed). every once in a while we talk about things like infinity and particle accellerators. once he told me that if something ever goes wrong in a particle accellerator, a black hole could be formed right here on earth and destroy half the galaxy. then he told me that black holes are not holes at all, just matter that is so dense it sucks in light particles. it is so dense, he said, that a teaspoon would wiegh as much as a battleship.
that reminded me of the flaming lips song "a spoonful wieghs a ton," and now i wonder is wayne coyne is a scientist.
i also have that picture of the painting i wrote that poem about. ill put it up after im done playing world of warcraft (which i still need a cd key for, by the way...)
-dan
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