mercredi, septembre 19, 2007
reinventing the wheel
Leaving his office, however, I felt like I had been asked to come up with a way to reinvent the wheel. Strangely enough, that is exactly what he said he wasn't asking me to do. He had a very valid point - research keeps going on, meaning there are always ways in which current research can be improved upon, or gaps can be filled.
But hello, these researches have been carried out by extremely learned professors. We have been trained to critique these journals, but reinventing them?
Delusions of grandeur!
Being third year students and all, I know there are certain expectations of us, like not relying completely on replications of what has already been done. But we're pretty much on our own. How many journals have you come across that were authored by one single person? I'd say it's a very small minority. And these people have been through years and years and YEARS of study and research. Pretending we're all at that level...how is this going to work??
I guess it's back to the drawing board.
mercredi, septembre 12, 2007
a band-aid on a bullet wound?
There was a screening of this movie in HELP today, which me and Hannah went for. I think the part that stuck with me the most was that polar bears are drowning.
Yes, you read that right. They drown from sheer exhaustion, cuz they swim and swim and swim and there's no ice for them to get out of the water on. And the visuals were quite influential as well. When ice melts, so much of the world will be under water that in just China and India (if I remember correctly), 100 million people will become refugees. Remember the devastation that occurred after Hurricane Katrina? That happened in a supposedly developed nation, and that was only tens of thousands of people.
This is the real apocalypse, people.
There was this one scene of a picture of the earth taken from squillions of miles away, and it was nothing, nothing but a tiny blue speck. It reminded me of something I once wrote:How little sense does it actually make? Think about it. Everything we know. Everything we are. All of it happens on this spherical mass of land and sea and ice, and this mass revolves around this bigger mass of pure heat. And you know how in books they draw orbits? Completely imaginary. And all of that happens in complete nothingness, except for other bits and other masses. Honestly, the idea of space seems like something from a really bad sci-fi movie. How ironic is that, that all of existence seems so farcical?
As a friend of mine would say, I'm having one of my moments. To think, that ALL of existence is on that little blue speck that is slowly and surely being destroyed by the very people who are utterly dependant on it.
It's not like we have a real alternative. What happens when all of this catches up with us? It'll be too late to say, ooops! Maybe we should've done something to fix this before it became an attempt to put a band-aid on a bullet wound.
lundi, septembre 10, 2007
jewelry
Today was Free Hugs Day at college, organized by the Student Council. There are pictures so I'm thinking this should be another post when I have them, but anyway, I got a friend of mine who used to go to HELP to swing by. He had stuff for me (Gourmet Pringles) which he brought back from England ages ago and has been meaning to give me, but always forgets. But then, he also surprised me with a Venetian glass pendant which is absolutely stunning. It's sorta got this stained glass thing going on. I love.
dimanche, septembre 09, 2007
pain
A wise friend of mine once insisted that no matter what the distance is, whether it's 5 or 5084792809742908320 kms, when you're away from someone you want to be with, it's all the same. You would think it would be easier, being closer...but distance is just that. Distance. No matter how you dice it.
jeudi, septembre 06, 2007
three a.m. conversations
ok wait the liver gets affected by alcohol yes?
nameeta says:
yup
:: Lady Patreez :: says:
k cool
:: Lady Patreez :: says:
i always think kidneys sometimes
nameeta says:
lol
nameeta says:
maybe they are?
nameeta says:
but livers are pretty important
nameeta says:
i cant believe i just said that
nameeta says:
how random