the eXternal mind

So I was on AIM for a bit today (OMG, a rare event!), and accumulated a few IN-ter-ES-ting bits of conversation:

[21:53] mikeXstudios: did I tell you already?
[21:53] mikeXstudios: Writing a soap lab
[21:54] mikeXstudios: is very difficult and boring
[21:54] mikeXstudios: I found myself using big words
[21:54] mikeXstudios: but then caught myself
[21:54] mikeXstudios: since I was writing for a smaller audience, I think
[21:54] mikeXstudios: and then I couldn’t write anything worthwhile
[21:55] ImagistTD: Well, using smaller words actually gives you a larger audience. ; )
[21:55] mikeXstudios: yeah, but for the background
[21:55] mikeXstudios: I wanted to say stuff like:
[21:55] mikeXstudios: Fats are composed of long hydrocarbon chains
[21:56] mikeXstudios: but soap requires short ones
[21:56] mikeXstudios: so an alkali base is used in a process called saponification
[21:56] mikeXstudios: to break the long chains into short ones
[21:59] mikeXstudios: yeah
[21:59] mikeXstudios: but that won’t work
[22:00] ImagistTD: I think the background is for the teachers.
[22:01] ImagistTD: So you probably don’t have to dumb it down to a children’s level.
[22:01] mikeXstudios: …In a quantum view
[22:01] mikeXstudios: the bonds between the hydrocarbons
[22:02] mikeXstudios: oriented at a 102.1 degree angle
[22:02] ImagistTD: Haha!
[22:02] mikeXstudios: is stressed to a tensor of 145 degree
[22:02] mikeXstudios: while electrons are excited to the conduction level
[22:02] mikeXstudios: and exchanged with the quantum holes of the neighboring atoms…
Note: That’s all totally made up and inaccurate. I take no responsibility for it.
[22:03] ImagistTD: You have to remember that these are elementary school teachers, though.
[22:03] mikeXstudios: yes
[22:03] mikeXstudios: elementary particle physics…

[22:04] ImagistTD: I’m doing my paper on quantum chaos.
[22:04] ImagistTD: How do you think I feel?
[22:05] mikeXstudios: chaotic?

[22:06] mikeXstudios: I’ve learned that
[22:06] mikeXstudios: anything with quantum in it
[22:06] mikeXstudios: sounds really complicated
[22:06] mikeXstudios: quantum waste disposal
[22:06] mikeXstudios: Person 1: “Wow, that’s so complicated!”
[22:07] mikeXstudios: Cheerleader: “Is that an 8?”
[22:07] ImagistTD: Hah!

Dave suggested getting Roth to tell another story tomorrow. I dubbed it the “Roth filabuster”.

[21:54] mikeXstudios: All of *my* jokes are highly original!
[21:55] PiKaSmiLy69: hmmm…I am not sure about that
[21:56] mikeXstudios: How about this joke: What number comes after 1?
[21:56] PiKaSmiLy69: 2?
[21:56] mikeXstudios: OMG, that’s so FUNNY!
[21:57] mikeXstudios: LOL!!!11!11LOL

From two days ago:

[17:49] PiKaSmiLy69: so are you alright? you seemed really in thought today?!
[17:49] mikeXstudios: oh, of course
[17:49] mikeXstudios: I’m always in thought
[17:49] PiKaSmiLy69: oh that is nice to hear!!
[17:49] PiKaSmiLy69: oh yea that is true!!
[17:49] PiKaSmiLy69: but today you are in DEEP thought hehhee
[17:50] mikeXstudios: well, partially, it was because I was mulling over how to derive the ellipse formula
[17:50] mikeXstudios: the textbook had a version
[17:50] mikeXstudios: but they left out a big step
[17:50] mikeXstudios: and I was trying to see how they did it
…
[17:50] mikeXstudios: and also because I’m a generally all-around mean person
[17:50] mikeXstudios: and I need to keep on a mean face
[17:51] mikeXstudios: otherwise, people would actually think I’m nice

Perhaps I will elaborate on it more…

[22:02] PiKaSmiLy69: but then u r always in your own world
[22:03] mikeXstudios: hm, true
[22:03] mikeXstudios: hey
[22:03] mikeXstudios: question
[22:03] PiKaSmiLy69: yea
[22:03] mikeXstudios: do you like anime?
[22:03] mikeXstudios: or manga?
[22:03] PiKaSmiLy69: Censored by her request
…
So I go on this long tirade about anime and manga only to…
[22:07] mikeXstudios: oh, but my point was
[22:07] PiKaSmiLy69: oh k…your point?
…
[22:08] mikeXstudios: okay, my point was
[22:08] mikeXstudios: in Cowboy Bebop
[22:08] mikeXstudios: the main protagonist Spike
[22:08] mikeXstudios: feels that he’s in a dream state
[22:08] mikeXstudios: disconnected from the world
[22:08] PiKaSmiLy69: hah like you?
[22:08] mikeXstudios: like he’s “always in thought”
[22:08] PiKaSmiLy69: lolz…sike
[22:08] mikeXstudios: exactly!
[22:08] mikeXstudios: that was my point
[22:08] PiKaSmiLy69: wow…mike I start to read your mind

Okay! So that’s a small peek into my world. That’s all for today folks.