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August 22nd, 2009

I'm having flashbacks.

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Déjà vu
So I just got done helping Mom outside. Why? Its name is Bill.

Yeah. Hurricanes do NOT like my family the girls in my family. (Dad's not here, yet Bill is headed for. However, in his defense [it wouldn't be fair to leave him out, after all] it did begin to form where his ship was, off the coast of Africa.)

"Oh that's just silly. Weather can't 'not like' someone!" you say?

Oh yes, YES it can!!!

Let me elaborate: )

Uh... fun? -_-

ETA: WTF?! The news in America is so royally effed up that it can't even correctly tell you what is going RIGHT NOW. I have this funny feeling that it's:
A) Raining (not "10% chance of showers"... if it's raining, that means SAY IT'S RAINING!)
B) It's windy (and I don't mean "6mph" windy, as you seem to think it is. Seriously, it takes more than 6mph winds to pick up a large stick and throw it into the window. Seriously! Plus, based on the fact it's an H1 Hurricane right now, and how far out it is, we're in the 39-59 mph zone (roughly)... which is a tad more than six.)
C) You would think that, logically, you would match your "forecast" of what the weather is right now to what you "report" of the weather is right now (The funny thing is: their "forecast" matches the weather dead-on, but the current report is waaaaaay the hell off!)
D) I have lost what little faith I had in meteorology... or at least the people who play one on TV.
E) If you want to know the weather, buy or make this:

July 10th, 2009

Random annoyance.

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This sucks
You know what annoys me? (well, one of the things anyways...)

When something gives/asks for weight in grams/kilograms. That's not weight!!!

Pounds are weight. Ounces are weight. Newtons are weight.

Grams (kilo- etc) are NOT weight. They are mass!

Pounds:Newtons as Slugs:Kilograms.

Yes, in case you didn't know, the imperial (AKA, the effed up system the USA uses) unit for mass is a "slug"... which is weird. Even more weird, the "small" version of that is the "slinch" (slug-inch) also called a "blob"... I mean, come on! Are we trying to get all the other countries to laugh at us?!?!

Mass times acceleration (almost always gravity) is what gives weight. Thus, you have a different weight on the moon. However, if you "massed" yourself, it would be the same.

*Sigh* Now that I've taken general physics, mistakes like this annoy me... also, I'm yet to go through a day without thinking about a physics equation!

May 23rd, 2009

Wee bit of a dork...

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Sense - you're not making any
Yeah... So I like the Harry Potter series, a lot (though not as much as my mom!) Although JK is not the best writer in the world, her stories are amazingly well thought out and gripping. I also like the fact that the books are true to age; that is, the first book is written in a way that an 11 year-old would understand and think, the second for a 12 year-old, and so on. To people who think the later books (4-7) are "too dark to be childrens' books" well, guess what, teenagers are dark by definition. Book told, accurately, about them aren't going to be about bunny rabbits and rainbows!

Alright, that being said:Spoilers )

Rambling/rant over :) You may be dismissed *shoos away* Unless you want to talk about it *points to comments button*
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