what?
i have responses for each of you.
grant, using drugs is always a good idea in principle. getting high is the easiest way to feel good. unfortunately, it's not legal to engage in such activity within our country. also, using drugs is expensive and addicting, and i'm risk-averse. plus, i think there are some moral aspects to drug use that i'm not willing to explore.
i am glad that you aren't graduating yet. it is part of your personal destiny. i wouldn't want you to miss out on that. however, if you think the world is deterministic, you wouldn't worry about missing your destiny anyway.
suzanne, i'm not headed for a nervous breakdown. i haven't even entered the destructive phase of my life yet. i would definitely go through that first. of course, the destructive phase of your life is expensive too. i would definitely prefer to go on a month-long camping excursion. that would be a lot cheaper.
rachel, arps hall could possibly be painted with lead paint. that would explain a lot of my euphoria. also, there's this incredibly old, crazy professor that comes in the lounge around 445 pm to forcefully slam his coffee grinder against the trash can, emptying his coffee grounds into the receptacle while washing out his cup and other items. i would best describe it as complete disregard for other people's existence. additionally, we think he's probably senile. given situations like that, which occur frequently, i can't possibly be expected to stay sane.
eric, my fantasy baseball team should be awesome, but jeff kent has decided to play badly, eddie guardado has forgotten how to pitch, and todd helton is injured.
still, i have schilling, peavy, oswalt, and pedro on my staff. papelbon and hoffman are my closers, and i've got mora, wells, gomes, helton, kent, thome, posada, and a couple other hitters. i'm in good shape.
and as for john...
first, i have reached a stage in my life where capitalization seems unnecessary. i can see the point in punctuation, as it leads to natural breaks in thought and logic, but capitalization really serves no useful purpose except for identifying proper nouns, which is a skill that we're all probably pretty good at. i suppose capitalization helps identify where sentences start, but periods show where sentences end, which should be enough.
still, if you want, i'll use capitalization in my regular posts from here on, but i'm not going to be happy about it. by the way, e.e. cummings is the hotness.
as for the baseball... the reds' pitching staff isn't very good. let's be honest- claussen, harang, arroyo, milton, wilson, and the gang aren't that good. i don't know how else to say that. almost every other nl staff has at least one good pitcher on it, but the reds have no good pitchers, unless you want to count bronson arroyo. at least they've found a bunch of mediocre guys... that's reds baseball at its finest.
i like brandon phillips, as he goes along with the reds' patented concept of picking up former major infield prospects and plugging them into starting jobs after they struggle in aaa. he fits in well with the freel/lopez/jimenez/romano/hummel crew. like lopez (and jimenez), phillips probably actually has actual skill.
also, i can't be up for your consistent knocking of former twin eric milton. he's trying his best. it's not his fault he's not worth what he's being paid. show some love!!!
i'll take on your contract challenge. i already have my team in mind.
also, did you know that if you listen to the arcade fire's "vampire/forest fire" four consecutive times, you will reach the ultra-hidden level on the emo game?
actually, i'm just kidding.
grant, using drugs is always a good idea in principle. getting high is the easiest way to feel good. unfortunately, it's not legal to engage in such activity within our country. also, using drugs is expensive and addicting, and i'm risk-averse. plus, i think there are some moral aspects to drug use that i'm not willing to explore.
i am glad that you aren't graduating yet. it is part of your personal destiny. i wouldn't want you to miss out on that. however, if you think the world is deterministic, you wouldn't worry about missing your destiny anyway.
suzanne, i'm not headed for a nervous breakdown. i haven't even entered the destructive phase of my life yet. i would definitely go through that first. of course, the destructive phase of your life is expensive too. i would definitely prefer to go on a month-long camping excursion. that would be a lot cheaper.
rachel, arps hall could possibly be painted with lead paint. that would explain a lot of my euphoria. also, there's this incredibly old, crazy professor that comes in the lounge around 445 pm to forcefully slam his coffee grinder against the trash can, emptying his coffee grounds into the receptacle while washing out his cup and other items. i would best describe it as complete disregard for other people's existence. additionally, we think he's probably senile. given situations like that, which occur frequently, i can't possibly be expected to stay sane.
eric, my fantasy baseball team should be awesome, but jeff kent has decided to play badly, eddie guardado has forgotten how to pitch, and todd helton is injured.
still, i have schilling, peavy, oswalt, and pedro on my staff. papelbon and hoffman are my closers, and i've got mora, wells, gomes, helton, kent, thome, posada, and a couple other hitters. i'm in good shape.
and as for john...
first, i have reached a stage in my life where capitalization seems unnecessary. i can see the point in punctuation, as it leads to natural breaks in thought and logic, but capitalization really serves no useful purpose except for identifying proper nouns, which is a skill that we're all probably pretty good at. i suppose capitalization helps identify where sentences start, but periods show where sentences end, which should be enough.
still, if you want, i'll use capitalization in my regular posts from here on, but i'm not going to be happy about it. by the way, e.e. cummings is the hotness.
as for the baseball... the reds' pitching staff isn't very good. let's be honest- claussen, harang, arroyo, milton, wilson, and the gang aren't that good. i don't know how else to say that. almost every other nl staff has at least one good pitcher on it, but the reds have no good pitchers, unless you want to count bronson arroyo. at least they've found a bunch of mediocre guys... that's reds baseball at its finest.
i like brandon phillips, as he goes along with the reds' patented concept of picking up former major infield prospects and plugging them into starting jobs after they struggle in aaa. he fits in well with the freel/lopez/jimenez/romano/hummel crew. like lopez (and jimenez), phillips probably actually has actual skill.
also, i can't be up for your consistent knocking of former twin eric milton. he's trying his best. it's not his fault he's not worth what he's being paid. show some love!!!
i'll take on your contract challenge. i already have my team in mind.
also, did you know that if you listen to the arcade fire's "vampire/forest fire" four consecutive times, you will reach the ultra-hidden level on the emo game?
actually, i'm just kidding.
posted by mike at 10:17 PM
3 Comments:
I would like to point out that many drugs, such as alcohol and aspirin, are legal in this country. Some of these will get you high. Yes, some are expensive and some are addicting -- but not all (though the "good" ones usually are). Morally, drugs are okay -- this is an objective statement that has been divinely revealed to me.
As for determinism, that is a question for the physicist and the logician, of which I am neither. I wonder if determinism is even a relevant concept if it is impossible to know what is determined.
Grant,
I am pleased to hear of your divination. I personally do not care whether determinism is relevant or not.
John,
I am pleased to know that Bronson Arroyo is screwing over the Boston Red Sox. I thought it was particularly shady of aforementioned Sox to re-sign Arroyo to a deal that was less than market value based on the "you get to pitch in Boston" premise.
I wouldn't be as ticked off at Brandon Claussen if he didn't suck every time I saw him pitch. I can see that he has competent skills when I read the box score, but when I see him on TV or at the park, he leaves those skills at home. I think that perhaps I need to send him an e-mail requesting that he pitch well when I am watching. I am sure that he would try to oblige.
I like the fact that the Reds have the best record in baseball, but the Reds are good at playing well in the early months. I'll reserve judgment until later, but I have to go with the past on this one.
On a side note, if the Reds do win 80 games, they'll still be two games under .500. But they're still better than the Cubs.
Actually, I'd argue that using drugs isn't necessarily a good idea, even in principle... It all depends on your subjective discount rate and your tendency toward habit formation for the given drug...
More habit formation = worse idea (because it makes an eventual OD more likely)
Less discounting = worse idea (because long-run negative impacts aren't heavily discounted).
Man, I'm such an econ-nerd.
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