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Captain "Encino Man" Schwetje: Think you can answer some questions without the usual level of sarcasm?
Nate Fick: If you can ask the questions without the usual level of stupid.
Captain "Encino Man" Schwetje: Think you can answer some questions without the usual level of sarcasm?
Nate Fick: If you can ask the questions without the usual level of stupid.
a day of only reading and coffee before i get fully into studying for the finals
You know a little detail I love in The Martian book? That Mark is obviously smart, but to different degrees depending on the subject.
Heâs a mechanical engineer and a botanist. This makes him especially good at math, biology, food science, physics, and techy stuff that involves building things or taking stuff apart and making it do something else and general problem solving
Heâs also generally good at chemistry. He knows that to make water he can breakdown hydrazine, but doesnât think about the fact that it would cause the place to fill with hydrogen and almost blow up until it does. He also knows you exhale some oxygen each time you breathe, but doesnât know how much.
He knows that solar panels are held at a 14 degree angle but doesnât know why, and only knows the angle because he was in charge of setting them up
When he gets injured he doesnât say what muscles, just that his back hurts. He fixes most of his muscle injuries with pain killers and warm baths while thinking about how the medic would have more detailed instructions
He has no idea how the pilot is so good at pilot stuff, and never differentiates different kinds of rocks like the geologist would
Itâs just cool to have a smart character who is smart at things that make sense for their degrees and experience. So many characters get the Sherlock Holmes treatment where theyâre good at whatever the plot needs, but in this case the book uses his blind spots as part of the plot. He knows enough chemistry to solve problems but not enough to anticipate the problems the chemistry would cause as well. Itâs refreshing to have a book where what a character is bad at, or just not super good at, works with the story rather than just getting glossed over or having the character magically good at everything because if you know botany obviously you also know anatomy and geology and meteorology, etc
sifting through my notes on military cultures and waiting for inspiration to strike this essay season
Frodo: Do you ever walk into a room and immediately forget why you went there in the first place?
Sam: Mister Frodo please throw the Ring into the fire
Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, published 1961.
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I definitely need a bigger desk
âBook sellerâ by Terry A. Nyman
coffee and notebooks and fancy pens
girl what the fuck is even the theme of a midsummer nightâs dream. is there even a lesson to be learned. is it just vibes or what
puck at the end of the play: god did you see that shit? insane, right? haha alright take it easy
This doesnât include the best bit of the whole thing - she found the Twitter thread!
I love this
goodreads should have a second âcurrently readingâ shelf thatâs called âIâve technically started it but I havenât touched it since last year but I canât put it on want-to-read bc Iâve already read five chaptersâÂ
when somebody mentions a âplot holeâ in a piece of media and itâs just like âwhy would this character make an emotionally driven choice consistent with their morals instead of doing the most objectively logical thing in this situation, this writing sucksâ