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Name: David
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Birthday: 10/14/1984
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Interests: High Power Rocketry, Trans-Am, Models, Backpacking, Shooting squirrels with blowguns.
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Saturday, September 23, 2006

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Banterposty??


Friday, September 08, 2006

Reposted from a Facebook Note:

WHAT??
This is ridiculous. Facebook does not need to be this complicated. Its initial beauty 'back in the day' stemmed from its elegance AND its usefulness. It no longer has this elegance and seems to be spiraling down into the same pit occupied by Xanga and Myspace. What the hell is a 'Note' anyway?

It is not worse than xanga/myspace, it has a different purpose.  Facebook was never intended to be a blog, or a place you should post thoughts like this.  I think the existence of 'Notes' is a perfect example of what Facebook should not do.

Facebook should be just that: a book of faces, a simple, cleanly arranged listing of people you know, a profile of who they are, and how they are socially connected to you.  Facebook should ideally describe reality, not create a virtual one.


Thursday, April 20, 2006

Away Message Madness

I was recently told that I always have interesting away messages.  Inspired, I have assembled a compilation of a few I have used in the past:

 

  • That cold sludge of coffee you drink anyway because you know that you need it…
  • The existence of mysterious frogs and loud rustling things in the bushes make this apartment better.  I pity the fools whose balconies overlook a parking area! 

By summer, there should even be strange things in the trees...

  • A logical proposition:

Assume: ['Sleep' (and) 'Dracula'=>'Morning'] and ['Dracula'<=>(not)'Sleep'] 

If (not)'Dracula'

then 'Coffee' (and) 'Quantumbook' =>'Fun'

  • Lurking in the abbey...

"Do you not think that there are things you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?"

  • drawing Hamiltonian Eigenfunctions for the simple harmonic oscillator and infinite square well potentials
  • God invented the integers; all else is the work of man.  –Kronecker
  • it falls on the pines
  • Making wine in the snow
  • Come summer, the trees along the creek will sing in the wind. Be it day or night, their voices will be heard for miles.
  • Slicing 5 lbs of rhubarb.
  • Balcony: Ipomoea alba, Ipomoea violacia, Physalis alkekengi, Lunaria annua
  • achieving supremacy in optics
  • Bleak air a fear

a dreaming monster turning

slowly that will

flake away

  • Tree-chasing is a fun and very lucrative hobby.  Everyone should try it at least once.
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.-- John Muir
  • Sleep. 

Instead of study 

Instead of optics 

The enemy of all Knowledge.

  • "After J-lab I can measure the speed of light with a toothpick and a stick of gum."—Andrew
  • Krausen:  the foam has risen!
  • flake away...

 

in hollow gloam

age spiraling in time

Draw back

  • The rain of matter upon sense

Destroys me momently. The Score:

There comes what will come. The expense

Is what one thought, and something more-

One's being and intelligence.

  • Oh, I feel it.  I feel the Cosmos!
  • It might seem nuts . . but maths can save red squirrels....
  • Above the fields,

above the roofs of the village houses,

the brilliance that made all life possible

becomes the cold stars.    

 

Lie still and watch:

they give nothing but ask nothing.

  • How do you skin a cat... If its wavefunction has not yet collapsed?
  • Do not despair at the stars' distance. Amsel-Musik zu lauschen heisst in einem Augenblick Raum-Zeit-Klufte uberbrucken...
  • Padang!!
  • It's time to throw off those chains, addle our brains with madness...
  • Photonics Plasmonics Optics and Light, Everyone knows Maxwell was right
  • Draw back

 

the shining blind

the vibrant membrane

singing back a

dream

  • “The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.” – Hermann Minkowski, 1908
  • "A new Hagar" 

OR 

"Hagar Strikes Back"  

 OR 

"Return of Hagar" 

  • Disposing of something hideous in the dark woods
  • overheard on adultswim while eating my cornflakes: "I've told you, Al, we can't touch.  We don't know what could happen!"
  • A Hippodrome (Gr. from hippos, horse, and dromos, race, course) was a course provided by the Greeks for horse racing and chariot racing.

This pertains to the lurid history of the Madison Square Garden.  For more of the story, see joey's away message... jstar1120

  • Solving the Time-Dependent Squirrel Equation...
  • The score:

Squirrels - 1

Us - 1

There comes what will come.

  • Tired is when you need it,

Sleepy is when you want it.

The two don't often coincide.

  • breakfast killed me, now back to sleep...

(If squirrel=yes, then call the cell)

  • zu schlaffen gehen

 

 


Monday, January 30, 2006

The Pi Phase Difference between Ability and Desire *OR* The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Why does everything have to start to make sense at three in the morning?  This is incredibly frustrating.  Of all the times for my brain to begin to approach the way it should function when slapped with physics, this has got to be the worst.  It’s not like I need it to do homework for tomorrow morning or anything.  No, the thing is starting to unravel, and I am glimpsing the logical beauty of it.  I want more! 

I also want sleep.  I don’t have a problem with this enlightenment, but can’t I do this some other time when I’m not tired?  Sleep may seem like the answer, but how does one know that this won’t be dark to the mind upon awakening?

It’s almost not fair.  Tomorrow I have a group meeting with The Bumm, my physics advisor. The new semester brought with it a different set of schedules for each of the members of our lab, which means that our weekly group-meeting is no longer on a leisurely Friday afternoon at 2:30.  This is a double edged sword…
The meeting has been rescheduled for 8:00 am on Monday morning.  Bad.  The good, you ask?  Since we now have meetings in the morning, we get Bagels! And coffee too.

But hey!? What about the ugly?!  Ah, yes.  That would be me after biking all the way to campus from my apartment at 7:45 on a genuine, January, Monday morning in order to discuss the applications of plasmonics at nanoscale dimensions.  That would be me after waking up three hours after I type this.  That would be me … until I get my cup of coffee and a bagel.


Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Bribery

It is time to renew leases again at The Reserve apartments where I live.  You can tell because the management has been leaving candy, crackers and peanuts on our doors for the past few days.  I am insulted.  These pathetic gifts of hopeful enticement are also accompanied by ceaseless propaganda:

"College Life is Only Better"
"Computer Lab"
and
"Everyone here hopes that you and your roommates stay for many more." (years, presumably)

But the most important and alluring aspect of this apartment which sets it apart from the rest is printed at the top in large type:

Hot Tub
 
Now, I'm sure that all of this has everyone convinced to renew their leases.  There will probably be a line forming at the office soon.  And invariably, some of those people will want to celebrate their wise decision by soaking in the hot tub...
Unfortunately for them, it doesn't have any water in it.



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