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I'm not really all that mysterious

Everything Happens for a Reason

Physicists are no longer allowed in history class.

Question 19:

Cite two causes of the first world war.

Answer:

  1. The universal wavefunction
  2. The boundary conditions of the universe

SMBC • 2011 Mar 26

Like they say, everything happens for a reason. And that reason is Schrödinger's equation

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posted by Author's profile picture mahiwaga

There's No Reason for Sanders to Quit Now

It really makes no sense to expect Sanders to quit before the tallies from tomorrow’s elections are in.

Especially when there was no way Clinton was going to quit in 2008 until the last big primary day.

Responding to a question from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board about calls for her to drop out of the race, she said: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing the idea of abandoning the race.

Clinton regrets RFK assassination remark • 2008 May 24 • NBC News

(see also: Clinton Remark on Kennedy’s Killing Stirs Uproar • 2008 May 24 • Katharine Q. Seelye • New York Times)

Trying to convince a Sanderista that they should stop supporting Sanders and support Clinton in 2016 is exactly like trying to convince a PUMA that they should stop supporting Clinton and support Obama in 2008.

posted by Author's profile picture mahiwaga

Name Collision

So I had created a custom Liquid tag called link to make it easier to write citations to articles, blog posts, Wikipedia article, etc.

Unfortunately for me, they’ve incorporated a new Liquid tag also called link that does something entirely different so I’ve held off upgrading to Jekyll 3.1.6 until I’ve renamed all the Liquid link tags.

I’ve settled on mainly using article but I also have blogpost and project defined as synonyms for more semantic flair.

posted by Author's profile picture mahiwaga