February 2012
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I’m about to spam the sh*t out of my Tumblr with pictures — old and new.
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“You look amazing in that skirt! I’m sorry to be rude — I’m...”
– Some guy to me while waving down a taxi in Haight, San Francisco, CA
I have had such a great freaking day today. Holy shit. Still having a great day, but really, life is fantastic. My weekend in general has been really fun. I think I’m gonna do some work when I get home — get caught up on stuff before Monday. Start the week off with a bizzang. :)
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WatchBUUUUNS. Forget dubstep. Throw me in a club with hyphy bay music, and I will dance all night. See you out there, San Francisco. :3
WatchHooker makeup and a short skirt?! TGIF.
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Lol. I made someone super pissed at me today. Yikes. Not on purpose, but come on — I’m not at fault for that, jeeeez. Why are boys so freaking sensitive?
/Deletes phone number.
Not dealing with that.
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gavemypantiestoageek asked: I'm really glad to hear that! :) I was sorta worried because I know what your eating habits are like, and I know you've been blessed with good genes, but you and I are about the same age and this is around when things start slowing down if we don`t do something to fix them. Plus, even if you look good on the outside, the inside is what really matters :) I'm glad you're doing...
gavemypantiestoageek asked: you work out now! I'm glad! :) what do you do? also hi, i haven't talked to you in a while. :)
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On health.
I love that feeling after an intense workout where your muscles just collapse and you can barely move. Knowing any sort of protein I shove down my throat after a session like that is contributing to muscle growth is like: Holy crap. I can eat anything I want and look hotter if I work out hard? Don’t mind if I do!
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“[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common...”
– Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists since Einstein
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“Christopher Hitchens doesn’t teach you a *way* of thinking. He teaches you...”
– Alex Wilhelm, Mid-West Editor (soon-to-be San Francisco Editor) for The Next Web
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That sounds pretty accurate.
HIM: I think you like being around me because I actually challenge you when you're wrong.
HER: When I'm what?
HIM: Er, when I think you're wrong.
HER: (Unblinking-disagree-face)
HIM: ... I mean, when you're not as right as you normally are.
HER: Oh. Yeah, definitely. That sounds pretty accurate.
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Fashion is weird.
Alex, who I’m sure thinks he’s funny, told me to wear this:
To which my response was, “Oh hell no.”
But then I try to picture it on my actual body frame, trimmed up and with a much better shirt than what she’s got going on under there, maybe curl my hair, cuff the hem and Oxford it out? Maybe. Petal trim socks with ribbons, though. Adorable. Add some femininity to...
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“When I first met Bryan, I went over to his apartment, and he had Jack Kerouac...”
– Joe Rogan, The Joe Rogan Experience, Episode 182
Anonymous asked: "I’m so stressed by this idea that my time on this earth is so profoundly limited." - UGH GIRL that is not the right word! You can not be profoundly limited. That is just not the meaning of that word. You can be greatly limited...even deeply limited. But not profoundly. I like your blog but all this rhetorical tautology is driving me crazy... you are better than this! Quit using...
Anonymous asked: This may be obvious, but what field are you in and how are you able to navigate through it without a degree? Also, have you ever thought of sitting in on college lectures without enrolling (I forget the correct term for it)? You can associate with more people interested in the subject and get a recommended list of books from some of the brightest. My fellow college friends do it to brush up on old...
krisiku asked: You're quite the deep, intellectual thinker aren't you? =) Have you always been so curious/keen on learning? Is this something new and if so what spurned it on? and finally, what are you reading/looking into at the moment? A lot of your posts lately seem very space/time focused
bobobubbletea asked: Cheri! I love your (possibly) newfound interest in science! I'm an aspiring scientific researcher and I also try to learn about various areas in science, rather than focusing strictly on my major (microbiology, pre-pharmacy). Have you read "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan? I think you'll love it. Carl Sagan is so amazing, as is Richard Dawkins (although some of his books have a lot to do...
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On college, I guess, since a small segment of you...
I’m getting a lot of questions about why I don’t just go to college and get graded on my actual analyses. To answer those questions quickly: Because I’m making a lot of money doing what I already love (enough to make me happy, anyway, though a personal goal of mine is to continue steadily leaping income brackets as I have been), and because there is currently no area of study in...
“Both are right. Each perspective has an equal claim on truth. The only subtlety...”
– Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
On youth serums.
You know what I was thinking? I made this video a while ago discussing the benefits of Olay Regenerist — it’s this cream (or a series of various serums) that you apply to your skin to help your cells regenerate for more youthful looking skin.
Now, here’s my problem with that (two years too late, Lol). Skin cells (or any cell in your body, really) have a certain “lifetime” before they expire. Or...
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Speed of light.
So wait … Since the speed of light is ALWAYS constant (670 million mph), and no matter how fast we chase a beam of light, it will always retreat at that same pace, and since there is no such thing as a STATIONARY beam of light (in comparison to our conceptions of what a stationary state is), does that mean that my room right now is full of photons traveling at 670 million miles per hour? That’s...
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That's just crazy.
I’m in the second chapter of the book right now. It discusses special relativity, and the idea that our personal concepts of motion are entirely different to someone else’s concepts of motion, and so there’s no really accurate way to perfectly measure ANYTHING. Knowing this, the only ways we actually measure anything are by comparison. Naturally, this can relate to a wide variety...
“Only comparisons have any physical meaning.”
– Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
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Poor Einstein.
Again, Einstein’s obsession with minor conflicts, unshared, drove him to sociopathy. Little did he know, several other experts in his field were also exploring these same concepts. If he had reached out earlier, can you imagine the progress he would have made, and therefore, the progress we could have built our current understanding of physics on? It’s such a shame. Self-inflicted...
“Einstein was unaware that many of the world’s leading physicists were...”
– Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe