Like I haven't had enough of 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Somebody point out the flaws mihi and explain this clearly. Thanks.

Edit: The worst argument against a conspiracy theory:

Well, if it wasn't Flight 77, what happened to Flight 77?

Let's assume there's a conspiracy.

Now, are you telling me that this conspiracy couldn't create a flight 77 where none had been? Don't you remember that they originally thought as many as 8 planes had been hijacked? Don't you remember that the original death toll was much higher, as people tried to claim nonexistant family members as dead? It would be almost easy to go into the computers, add records for a nonexistant flight, and pay off people to cry about their poor dead family members. I mean, shit, this is a conspiracy, right? You think they couldn't do a little thing like that? Huh.

Now, I doubt there is a conspiracy. I don't think one of this scale could practically be carried out (too many people would have to keep quiet), and I don't think the Shrubboy is that smart. But if you believe in conspiracies, you have to disbelieve my two objections, in which case I should hope that the conspirators are smart enough to find a few more people who can keep quiet.

Wow.

I'm not done reading it yet, but wow.

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This is the entry I promised a friend.... If you are NOT that friend, keep away! I'm too lazy to make a new custom group.

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Omigawd! I am, like, SUCH a geek!

I have a midterm for my sociolinguistics class that I'm working on right now, and one of the questions is asking me to note which linguistic variables might be usefully investigated where I am. I was about to go "well, shit, *I* don't know!" when I realized that the internet has linguistic variables too! Big, hulking, obvious ones once you know what you're looking for. Heck, I can tell you what subgroups a person belongs to just by studying their smileys! Well, not quite. But it's true, smileys go in different groups. Somebody who goes is not going to also go ^_^;;. Never gonna happen. Or hardly ever, anyway :)

So I start typing this up, and it's supposed to be half a page, and before I know it I have three times that much and I haven't even gotten to l337 yet!

I have got to get a life. This is embarassing. How am I going to explain this to my professor? "Oh, I meant to do it properly, but, see, I haven't been in the real world since summer of 2002!" Riiiiiight.

On the other hand, it sure is fascinating. I need to save this question and expand it, see if I can do a special project on it, because I need to get a grade for this somehow.

Congrats to any and all support-ish friends for their support-ish accomplishments!

This way nobody is left out. And you know who you are, too. *dances some more and tosses confetti*

Whee! Latin Midterm today.

I finished before everybody else. That either means I did well (it seemed easy enough...) or I was too overconfident and did miserably. There is no inbetween.

The last bit was a sight translation (ugh) from Bede's commentaries on the Vulgate. I hate Bede. He's incomprehensible in the best of times. So I'm sitting there, trying desperately to figure out how "pay attention" fits into the sentence when I realize - duh! This isn't part of the Bible! This is Bede explaining the Bible! He's telling the reader, me, to pay attention or to notice!

So then it fell into place and I was able to translate the whole passage. But I still may have been wrong.