Saturday, February 13, 2010

Things that Pop Up at Dinner

So as we all know, my life is like a series of short stories of me and my friends acting way nerdy and getting into loads of trouble (or rather narrowly escaping said trouble). Perfect example: the time my friend Chris (my other Jonesey) and I broke into the freshman hill dorms to steal everyone's markers from their dry-erase boards. Of course we weren't content with just this so we decided to go on a spree of taking useless junk from people. The following day my room contained around 40 markers, flamingo lawn ornaments, and two super-sized sawhorses. Needless to say I need help sometimes deciding what is and isn't a good idea (and trust me we returned the markers...made the RPI Incident blotter though!).

Recently at dinner, the subject of superheroes came up, something I'm sure anyone who knows me would immediately roll their eyes at. As a youngster and actually most of my adult life as well I have been obsessed with Batman and the like. My Poppy Ben even dressed up as Batman for my Batman birthday party (bat-party?)...twice...

To be completely honest I learned a few things, the idea that hero and villain alignment could be boiled down to some sort of simple algorithm both shocked and provoked me. My proposal of a superhero called the "Homogenizer" was at first grouped as "True Neutral", but after Mike, the local REAL physicist decided that homogenizing links to heat death which links to entropy, which is inherently chaotic, his alignment should actually be "Chaotic Neutral". I still have no clue what is going on.

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