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Denial of Water

The game we've been waiting for has finally come out. And it is AWESOME. The Steam delivery system actually worked, preloading the game's content before its official "release" and I was able to play it as soon as 1am hit. I only wish I didn't have a couple midterms this week.

... rarity by itself shouldn't necessarily be evidence of anything. When one is dealt a bridge hand of thirteen cards, the probability of being dealt that particular hand is less than one in 600 billion. Still, it would be absurd for someone to be dealt a hand, examine it carefully, calculate that the probability of getting it is less than one in 600 billion, and then conclude that he must not have been dealt that very hand because it is so very improbable.
--John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Today quote was brought to you by argument from design, a well-constructed rebuff of some popular creationists' arguments.

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If I had to guess, my eyes are currently taking on the half-glazed-half-demented look of someone who hasn't gotten any sleep in a long time. Not by choice, mind you; I'm talking about the pure schizoid dementia that only comes about through wholehearted attempts at sleep.

But I did make good use of my time. I've finally beaten Final Fantasy X for the first time. It only took me a year and a half since I bought the game. And I studied for the optics midterm that I hope I just did well on. And now I'm doing computer science homework. Later this evening I'll do the microcontroller architecture homework in one sitting.

Who needs drugs? I've got insomnia!

Here's an interesting way of viewing the election results, courtesy of Ryan:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

Waking up at 3am makes one feel a bit loopy. But perhaps I need to start further back.

My entire house smells like ass. If I could pinpoint the most horrible smell in the world, it would be the smell in our kitchen right now. Between the backflow of what I guess is sewage onto the floor (which smells like a combination of vomit and something else unsavory), the insecticide the exterminator used in the cabinets, and the dead cockroaches all over the floor, it's been a generally unpleasant place to live recently.

Did I mention that all of our silverware, plates, and cups are on the dining room table, covered in roach feces? We can't wash them, because then the backflow gets worse. Not that I feel like eating anything now anyway.

So I decided to leave the conscious world behind at 7pm yesterday, in hopes that when I woke up the world would be fresh and smelling like roses. (It isn't.) In retrospect, perhaps that was a bad idea, since I just woke up at 3am. I need to get the hell out of here. Maybe I'll head over to coffee xchange to get something to drink.