Go you genius

I read this comment on youtube for a Japanese clip:
"1000 yen is around 10 dollars. A rough estimate. it changes all the time, unlike US dollars"

You absolute genius. Wow. I could never have guessed that. Your powers of observation are formidable. I bow to your aura of intelligence. Your IQ must be astronomical, up there with the likes of Alpha Centauri and YOU ABSOLUTE IDIOT, er, Minor.

It's SO obvious that it is merely every other currency that changes value. The US dollar never in fact changes because when the economic state of the US changes the world ENDS. Okay, I'll concede that most exchange rates are based on a currency's value compared to the USD and so it may be perceived, albeit by quite the cretin, that the USD never in fact changes in value. Still...the arrogance of many Americans never ceases to amaze me.

Sigh. I had other things to say, but I didn't want to get too carried away. People who actually know about economics feel free to correct me. Otherwise I'll be sitting here feeling smug that I know more than this guy.

Killing time

This post is just a random one so I can use up some time before the next thing on my [being sarcastic tone] busy [end sarcastic tone] schedule on my very exciting first day of actual AMS (that's Advanced Medical Studies- pretty much a year spent doing research, with a thesis at the end and hopefully a publication!). Now that the purpose of this post is known, you can expect this entry to be quite irrelevant, unlike all my other posts, if you'll believe that.

I won't bother with a recount of my day. It's boring to write, and probably more so to read. At least I know more about what my project topic is, if not any more details on the project itself. That is to say, I'm still quite lost in regards to exactly what I'll be doing for this year.

Er, now that I'm typing this I realise that I don't have as much spare time as I originally thought. Curse these slow loading times! Well ok, it's not really the computer's fault. I spent some time looking up random stuff on Wikipedia and playing some of the games that are on this computer, hehe. Including some kind of mini-golf game, and the classic Asteroids.

Also new is that the computers here all run on the operating system Linux. It's all a new experience for me, but the interface resembles a Mac-PC hybrid. Their love-child, if you will. That is, if operating systems could in fact bear children.

As a side note, this computer lab is called BIL, which was amusing because it's eerily reminiscent of HAL (from 2001: A Space Odyssey). Hm, let's hope this project works out better than the mission from 2001. Although, the images seen by Bowman (I think that's his name...feel free to correct me) could be represented by the images I'll be seeing while researching. Creepy.