Monday, April 13, 2009

Wolvertweens

After MONTHS of scorn, my aversion to twitter disappeared in one lazy afternoon. Where is my resolve? Remember a little bit ago when I was bitching about my fear of technology? (me neither). Well, it turns out my fears and my scruples all pale in the face of mass conformity. Should I be ashamed about that? I guess I am a little. It's confusing when my idols are just as pathetic as I am.

On Wikipedia today I learned about allotropy, which is the ability of elements to combine with one another in different ways, producing totally different molecular structures (I'm paraphrasing and hopefully not getting it wrong). When most people think about allotropes... well, most people don't. But of those who do, most of them think of diamonds and granite, which are made of the same elements but obviously are not the same. But there are also lots of other kinds of allotropes, none of which are at all interesting. Except in the world of make-believe, where I learned that Adamantium has 13 allotropes that all do craaaaaaaazy shit to Wolverine. Speaking of which, did you know that Wolverines are part of the weasel family? Raise your hand if you're less impressed now.


And to the gents out there, even if you are lucky enough to find a girl who also thinks it's funny to fart in the bedroom, you still will probably not be able to get away with proposing with a piece of granite. I hope cleverness keeps you warm at night, because you'll be sleeping ALONE.

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