uh-oh…i’m long-winded…
yay for kitty crack!
ahhh…how I’ve missed the sight of kitties running into walls, falling over, laying around with really really dialated pupils, staring at nothing, in general being even bigger fools than even they typically are…
where is the people version of a recreational drug with no apparently side-effects? (and such a munchy-crunchy taste!)
the cats are fully fully recovered from surgery, they’re still pretty belly hairless though, which makes’em look silly, especially as they roll around making silly faces of ecstasy…I figure if they never get to have kitty sex, at least they get kitty highs, I want my kitties to live a wonderful life
but I also want them to get fat. That part is not going so well. I think they run around too much playing their weird little games. my three favorites: helicopter kitty, sumo kitties and pop goes the cat
other thoughts of interest…
Crest white strips work
REALLY well
but there is a side-effect that yellow toothed people like me notice. when you have really really bloody white teeth (like I do now), you really see plaque when it builds up! i mean, EWWWW. you look in the mirror and go “YUCK!”
so…teeth much brushing…three times a day at least, or you really can see the plaque….hrmmm…
am I really lazy? or do I like having white teeth? (damn you coke and your tooth yellowing ways!)
school proceeds, with a bit of a break in my experimental failure run, seeing as my prof nearly runs whenever he sees me…he fears me and my disease! though he brings in his share o’ disease, having two kids in elementary school, yeah, he’s a carrier. my regular old typhoid lisle
home seems better, all the immediate family has recovered from the terror of the stomach flu. the newest members, my neice darcy and my sister’s other baby, the cat Kah-hah-be-booo-lan (I Have NO Idea how it’s spelled, so that’s as phonotic (huh, I dunno how that is spelled either, I need me some spell checking…) as it gets folks!), they call her Hobby for short…they are settlign in admirably. Oddly enough, the cat doesn’t seem to mind the kid, indeed, she seems to derive some pleasure out of the ear gnawing and the tail pulling. Masochist.
i’m reading a lot. thinking a lot. feel like my brain has been asleep for several months, just working and doing homework and cat-frolicking. and suddenly – my brain has clicked into high gear and i can’t stop thinking long enough to absorb knowledge. it’s hard to learn in class when your brain is whirring so hard about something that you can’t get it to focus…spent my molecular evolution course contemplating probability. see, what i think helped turn my brain back on, albeit slowly, was God’s Debris by Scott Adams (yeah, you know, that guy who wrote dilbert)…good book, quick read…though-stimulating, which indeed is the point of the book…but the question I keep getting stuck on…is this (I’ll direct quote so it’s easier to understand):
“I meant why does the coin come up heads fifty percent of the time?”
“I guess that’s because the coin weighs about the same on both sides, so there’s a fifty-fifty chance it will land on one side versus the other.” I tried to avoid sounding condescending. I wasn’t sure I succeeded.
“You haven’t answered why. You simply listed some facts.”
I saw waht was going on. The old man pulls this trick question on anyone who come within range. There had to be a punch line or clever answer, so I played along.
“What’s the anwer?” I asked with all the artificial interest I could muster.
“The answer,” he said, “is that the question has no why.”
“You could say that about anything.”
“No,” he replied, in a manner that seemed suddenly coherent. “Ever other question has an answer to why. Only probability is inexplicable.”
–God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment
so…is it? is there a why to probability? if there is, what is it? if there isn’t…well what the hell am i doing in a science field? i am on the second read through of the book, still working on this one. if there is no why, is probability no difference than chance, than fate, than luck? if so, then all those scientific papers…wow…they feel pretty iffy, considering a big BIG deal for us is that data are significant to a certain point that the probability that it’s due to chance is very small. but if they’re the same thing, what impact does that have? are we comparing science data to luck?
so
what is probability? i asked a friend. her response. “kinda like algebra. or calculus. what are any of those really?” any math people out here who can help me? this is twirling my brain for a loop…
the rest of the book is also worth reading…also stimulated one other question i’m still stewing on: does omnipotence automatically omniscience? or…do you have to be all-knowing to be all-powerful?
enough talkies…I’m going to grill me some cheese…
