May 2007 Archives

Usually when I make mixes they're too like "hey here's some stuff I've been really into for like 3 days, I'm sure you'll like it" then I go back a week later and listen to them and it's like these songs don't even go together, delete.

But I like this one, it's called You Can't Deal With My Infinite Nature and it goes back to as early as 1997 so there are some gems on there.

1. The Mountain Goats - This Year
2. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
3. Built to Spill - Carry the Zero
4. The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape
5. Radiohead - No Surprises
6. The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
7. British Sea Power - Carrion
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
9. Phoenix - Too Young
10. El-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (first 50 seconds only)
11. Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
12. Devendra Banhart - At the Hop
13. Dismemberment Plan - The City
14. My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Stagedives and Highfives

Don't even try and front like you don't want a copy.

Here's something that has always bothered me about the theory of relativity:

Say there's a spaceship traveling at half the speed of light, or 0.5c. They turn on their headlights. From the perspective of the astronauts on the spaceship, the light should be leaving those headlights at the speed of light, 186,000 miles/second, right? Assuming this is a very bright light, a planet 186,000 miles ahead will be struck by light exactly one second after the ship turned on its headlights.

Well, what about the people on a different planet watching this spaceship pass them by at 0.5c? How fast do they observe the light leaving the headlights of the spaceship? The speed of light is supposed to be a constant c, no more and no less. But the light is leaving the headlights at c and these headlights are attached to a ship travelling at 0.5c, therefore isn't the light travelling at 1.5c? And isn't this not allowed?

What am I missing here? It's thoughts like this that keep me up at night.

Friday: wake up, write internship paper, go to work, come home, go to sleep.
Saturday: wake up, write internship paper, go to work, come home, go to sleep.
Sunday: wake up, go to work, come home, complete internship paper? go to sleep?

At least Sunday mixes things up a little.

ALICE: Who created you?
Jabberwacky: My mother gave birth to me. Is that what you mean?
A: Jabberwacky, I meant exactly what I said.
J: Do you believe in God?
A: Of course I believe in God.
J: Why do you believe in God?
A: The Bible tells us to believe in God.
J: That’s circular reasoning.
A: I’m glad we have that all cleared up.
J: Yes. Would you like to hear a joke?
A: Sure, tell me about it.
J: Why don’t blind people skydive?
A: Perhaps it is impossible.

Any day now we'll be getting farmed for our bioelectrical energy.

Watching intramural softball.
Drinking a lot and eating Mexican food.
Watching a backyard almost burn down due to too-small firepits.
Laying on my back in said backyard trying to find constellations.
Only finding boring ass-constellations like the Big Dipper.

Last night was a good one.