Grandma and great-Grandma are sleeping in the computer room, so I haven't been able to stay on past 11 for the last week and probably won't for another month. On top of that, Grandpa is sleeping in my room (starting today), so now I won't even be able to stay up on the phone because I'll be in the little brother's room. Phooey, the first week of summer is going to BLOW.

Ugh. I really have a thing against people who ALWAYS misunderstand what I'm saying. Because they tend to do things "as a favor" that I don't want them to do. Like heat the pizza I was going to eat cold, or make my bed.

Stupid bed. Why is making it such a big deal?

I'm just in a cruddy mood right now, and I don't like having people over. And exams are this week.

The Zune's really nice, though.

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It should be here tomorrow. The dock and A/V out cords came today.

I actually decided to go on Pandora again, and I realized how much music I have yet to acquire. Everything sounds great tonight.

Test tomorrow. I swear, we have a test in that class EVERY week. Stinky.

All my EOCs are next week. But by then I'll have my Zune. It's OK.

I still can not describe the awesome that is Nightwish.

*adds the word "zune" to the Fire Fox dictionary.*

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Come on, people. A magician can't pull himself out of the hat. Especially if the space and time that the hat exists in...doesn't exist.

I mean, the odds of a universe, a solar system, and a planet all being able to support life? Vanishingly small. However, there's still that unimaginably small chance of it happening.

The odds of the fabric of reality just appearing? (And it must have, at some point.) Null. Zero. Not REALLY SMALL, but plain old 0. Not without "supernatural intervention".

Religion doesn't have any rhyme, reason, or scientific support? Please.

1) Yeah, it does. (I've noticed that Real Player works better than Media Player)

2) What science supports Atheism, and nothing but? Other than evolution theory, I haven't heard of anything like that. And since when did evolution even rule out the supernatural? You don't have a leg to stand on.

As for, and I quote, "their unsophisticated mind"s, (kay2zed) wow. You, sir, are sadly mistaken, and more than a bit haughty. If I may go so far. Don't get me wrong; I respect your intellect, and from what I've read, your passion for deep thought and writing. But, frankly, if someone is wrong, it doesn't matter how well they answer.

Bah. You guys boggle my mind.

UPDATE:

In response to Unicornasaurus: The thing about evolution was exactly my point. It doesn't support any particular religious view, but some people seem to think it's an atheistic thing.

When I hear a plausible theory for the beginning of the universe that leaves no room for any God, but especially not the Christian God, then I will shut up. Until then, let it be clear that there are no other real alternatives for Big Bang Theory, yet. I doubt we're going to get one. But I'll have to accept it if one emerges.
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In response to Ranor: I completely agree with you. Science is (or, would be,) the language of God. Go Science!

But when science says the impossible happened, like the Big Bang, then you begin to wonder. The science isn't wrong, but there's an element that can not be explained in a purely scientific view. That must be where God steps in.

Scientific experiments will never be able to answer the questions we ask like "Why are we here" or "where does it come from". But can't science at least say "it" did, in fact, come from somewhere?
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I'm happy that we can get along here.

Let me make myself more clear. This post is not meant to make you reconsider what you believe. I'm not even trying. I want you to look at WHY you believe it. There's no real, logical reason to think that there ISN'T a higher being. I mean, the thing I keep seeing is that religious people are ignorant, or that we have no basis for our faith. I see the term "blind faith" a lot. This post is mostly my response to the entry by Kay2zed linked above.

The way I see it, lots of people think that being an atheist is more logical because one only believes in what one can see and verify. A part of your paradigm is that if you can't prove it, then it doesn't exist. My point is that, maybe this approach requires at least as much "blind faith" as another view, especially when the evidence starts pointing in the other direction?

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I managed to leave my science book at school.

With all my homework papers in it. That I need to finish HERE, not the block before it's due.

*starts over*

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I feel crappy today.

Instead of sleeping last night, I involuntarily swallowed almost constantly. This was to reduce the dry, itching at the back of my throat, which was quite horrendous. But since I had to do it every 20 or 25 seconds, it apparently didn't help much. As a topper, I had a sick stomach because of all the saliva I'd swallowed this morning.

My mom gave me a throat lozenge, which let me get some sleep for about two hours. Then I went to school.

My throat is still nasty and I keep hacking/coughing. All day at school. This is big deal for me, because I don't have allergies (soon to change? D:) and I never get sick.

I think it's the amount of chlorine they put in the stinking pool. It burned my nasal passages out..

OH, YEAH! Now I remember that yesterday I got a bunch of that bitter water up my nose and I had to stop to catch my breath.

Anyway. It sucks. Hope your days are better!

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Yeah, I just saw that. I'm going to be talking like Tony Stark for the rest of the school year. I already kind of do, anyway. My mom liked it, so you know it's good.

My Sansa broke about a week ago...I stepped on it, I think. The screen was cracked, but something inside was also broken. Because it only stays on for about 4 seconds, and the computer can not communicate with it anymore. BUT!

I'm getting an 8 gig Zune. And I'm super excited about it. I've told multiple people. Multiple times.

Read another Ted DekKer book...and am also thrilled with it. Now I need to buy the last one in that particular series. Black, Red...and then White. Fitting.

Yesterday I went to Katie's house for an hour or so, and I glomped the crap out of her. What fun. Really, it was fun. Apparently she was holding out on her cooking, though...D:

Mosquito season....merr.

Anyone seen the Trailer for the movie City of Ember? Man, that looks intense...

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I did the math in school because I was bored. As it turns out, my pizza program can yield over 4,200 meal combinations. Tell me if my logic is wrong.

First, the toppings. This is the most convoluted part. There are five toppings.

Any one topping: can be represented by all one digit numbers from one to five; 5

Any two toppings: all two digit numbers from 11 to 55 with only the numbers 1,2,3,4, and 5 and no doubles; 20

Any three toppings: all 3 digit numbers from 111 to 555, etc, no triples, not counting the numbers that are just in a different order (like, 124 and 142); 123, 124, 125, 134, 135, 145, 234, 235, 245, 345...I can't think of any other combinations, so 10.

Any 4 toppings: Only four possible combinations. 4

And, add one for all five and another for none at all. That's 41 total combinations.

Second comes the Extras. There are three things to choose from, with 4 choices each: three flavors and NONE. 4 chips * 4 cookies * 4 drinks = 66.

41 topping combos * 66 extra combos = 2706. That's already a lot. Double that because there are two sizes of pizza to choose from, and you get...5412.

Is it just me, or is this a HUGE number? Please check my logic, especially that for the toppings.



EDIT: Thanks to Zanzibar, I noticed that the any two toppings number can't be correct. It's 10, not 20. I forgot to exclude repeating numbers like I did with the triple and quadruple digits. The new total is 4,092. (Haha, what a difference.)

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