Alex's Alliterative Adventures

A German physicist lives across the hall from me. She’s really nice, I have a great time hanging out with her, and she seems to be pretty damn smart. She’s currently studying quantum mechanics, so I took it upon myself to repeatedly bug her to teach me quantum mechanics, since the concepts behind it intrigue me so. She hooked me up with a little video that covers very, very basic quantum mechanics. Although the video does a great job of scratching the surface of quantum theory, it didn’t really answer any questions for me, so I dug through the video’s comments. One of the comments offered something that sounded like a plausible explanation to one of my questions, until I realized that it was incredibly wrong. A response to that comment lead me to a quick googling, which lead me to a wikipedia page, which then lead to thirty–six other wikipedia pages.

I can’t stop reading, and I’m not going to be able to sleep for a month. That German girl is such a jerk.

When he wasn’t busy getting a black ear, a buddy of mine from the floor just hooked me up with all of Prison Break.

This does not bode well for my future.

When Jamie called me a hippie, he didn’t know how right he was.

On a related note, I just landed the best coop job ever. It’s going to be sweet.

edit: random unexpected angry rant post half written, I’ll put it up when I get back from blatent procrastination

edit 2: I’m tired, and therefore a liar. tomorrow.

Whoever invented 6:30am should be taken out back and given a good ol’ fashioned lynching.

You have to watch it to understand.

Tomorrow: 1-2 interviews.
Thursday: 5 hour exam, potential interview.
Friday: 5 hour exam.
Saturday: 2-6 hour programming test.
Sunday: 24 hours of alcoholism. I mean, bible study.

As usual, I’m telling you guys that posting will be sparse for a while. As usual, I’m trying to convince myself that everything will be less busy in a couple of weeks. As usual, both of those things are probably complete lies.

I just finished a phone interview that had only one technical question:

“How would you implement C++ in C?”

Jesus christ.  These people must eat mensa books for breakfast, lightly salted with raw neurons.

The Swedes are a notoriously bureaucratic people.  Personal numbers must be submitted, receipts must be accounted for, and if you use the wrong cover in your TPS report, you should expect a stern reprimand from your six bosses. From this cultural observation, one can infer that managerial positions are highly coveted among the Swedes; the master of bureaucracy is the master of life itself.

The Swedish word for manager is “chef”.

I’ve played Coldplay’s “Fix You” from the X & Y album at least 10 times today, and it’s going on 20.  There’s just something about that song that really captures a feeling of being complete defenseless and broken, and having a helping hand pull you to your feet. That might be its use in Scrubs, but who knows.

I don’t understand.  Coldplay is usually at best tolerable. The guitar solo is a stereotypically shitty Coldplay guitar solo, and yet… that descending vocal melody perfectly incites the feeling of falling to your knees in utter abandon.

My world is breaking apart. Also, I hate the internet here.  I’m tempted to start drawing a comic each morning, because it would be faster than waiting for my morning funny pages to load.

PS. latex (the document preparation system, not the anti-baby system, that stuff is awesome) sucks monkey balls, and don’t let anyone tell you any different.

edit: It has been pointed out to me that my post seemed melodramatic.  The reason that my world is breaking apart is because I like a coldplay song, nothing more.  Although, that IS a fairly significant thing.  Overall, life is pretty kickass.

Some of you have already heard about or watched Clinton’s recent interview with Fox News, but if you haven’t, you should really check it out.

edit: for great justice, take off every typo.