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An ignominious end to a valuable contributor to science.

DJ KDog ripping up some tracks for all y'all.

What marriage is really like.

All that is good and right in the world.

The first of many casts, I'm sure.

As a teaching assistant, I don't have time for your excuses.

If you've never done science, I encourage you to get your hands wet and discover that all we know and can hope to ever discover is predicated on a lot of uncertainty. This is a good thing. Certainties always breed bad shit, so it's good that the way forward is murky.

Anyway, I found Violet dead in her box today. This is kind of fucked up because Felicia and I just had a conversation about our own projected life times. I thought that I would die young, or failing that, die super old. Either I'm out by 60 or I'm in until 90. It's good to talk with your significant other about when you think you'll die and how the fuck shit is going to go down and how you are truly alone in the universe and how even if you find someone who can deal with your shit and put up with all your hangups until the bitterest of ends you still have to go through that shit yourself and you don't know what's going to come out the other end.

It makes you appreciate shit and not hope for some utopia that's never going to fucking get here.

Go read Proverbs 22:6. This is the thing that all parents should believe and apply.

Movies Fucking Rule

Fuck beans.

I remember once when my mother asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up and I answered that I wanted to be a hit man. I was young and she told me something to the effect that "you don't want to be a hit man, you have no idea what you are saying". I always thought that she never knew what I was talking about and she didn't appreciate the cold, detached, calculations that a hired killer must have in order to ply his trade.

I watched No Country For Old Men tonight, and watching Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, as he goes around and fucking destroys everyone, I stand by my previous statement. This guy was the most badass character I've seen in a movie since Taxi Driver, or maybe Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. I've always had mad respect for the guys who were principled and ruthless in their application of justice. The guys who are out in the filth and still cling to some kind of absolute value system have always piqued my interest. Call me wrong, and you will, but if I had a division of these men this war would be over in a year.