crystal_raye's Xanga

Wow, Xanga has gone downhill

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:13:36 GMT

I go away for a while adn when I come back the whole place has gone to shit... : /

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:09:27 GMT

My profile still needs tweaking *sweatdrop*

Something about "Nothing"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:57:40 GMT

Just a very interesting articule I found on Nothing.

1 There is vastly more nothing than something. Roughly 74 percent of the universe is “nothing,” or what physicists call dark energy; 22 percent is dark matter, particles we cannot see. Only 4 percent is baryonic matter, the stuff we call something.

2 And even something is mostly nothing. Atoms overwhelmingly consist of empty space. Matter’s solidity is an illusion caused by the electric fields created by subatomic particles.

3 There is more and more nothing every second. In 1998 astronomers measuring the expansion of the universe determined that dark energy is pushing apart the universe at an ever-accelerating speed. The discovery of nothing—and its ability to influence the fate of the cosmos—is considered the most important astronomical finding of the past decade.

4 But even nothing has a weight. The energy in dark matter is equivalent to a tiny mass; there is about one pound of dark energy in a cube of empty space 250,000 miles on each side.

5 In space, no one can hear you scream: Sound, a mechanical wave, cannot travel through a vacuum. Without matter to vibrate through, there is only silence.

6 So what if Kramer falls in a forest? Luckily, electromagnetic waves, including light and radio waves, need no medium to travel through, letting TV stations broadcast endless reruns of Seinfeld, the show about nothing.

7 Light can travel through a vacuum, but there is nothing to refract it. Alas for extraterrestrial romantics, stars do not twinkle in outer space.

8 Black holes are not holes or voids; they are the exact opposite of nothing, being the densest concentration of mass known in the universe.

9 “Zero” was first seen in cuneiform tablets written around 300 B.C. by Babylonians who used it as a placeholder (to distinguish 36 from 306 or 360, for example). The concept of zero in its mathematical sense was developed in India in the fifth century.

10 Any number divided by zero is . . . nothing, not even zero. The equation is mathematically impossible.

11 It is said that Abdülhamid II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s, had censors expunge references to H₂O from chemistry books because he was sure it stood for “Hamid the Second is nothing.”

12 Medieval art was mostly flat and two-dimensional until the 15th century, when the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi conceived of the vanishing point, the place where parallel lines converge into nothingness. This allowed for the development of perspective in art.

13 Aristotle once wrote, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and so did he. His complete rejection of vacuums and voids and his subsequent influence on centuries of learning prevented the adoption of the concept of zero in the Western world until around the 13th century, when Italian bankers found it to be extraordinarily useful in financial transactions.

14 Vacuums do not suck things. They create spaces into which the surrounding atmosphere pushes matter.

15 Creatio ex nihilo, the belief that the world was created out of nothing, is one of the most common themes in ancient myths and religions.

16 Current theories suggest that the universe was created out of a state of vacuum energy, that is, nothing.

17 But to a physicist there is no such thing as nothing. Empty space is instead filled with pairs of particles and antiparticles, called virtual particles, that quickly form and then, in accordance with the law of energy conservation, annihilate each other in about 10^-25 second.

18 So Aristotle was right all along.

19 These virtual particles popping in and out of existence create energy. In fact, according to quantum mechanics, the energy contained in all the power plants and nuclear weapons in the world doesn’t equal the theoretical energy contained in the empty spaces between these words.

20 In other words, nothing could be the key to the theory of everything.

I missed you, Xanga!

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:54:59 GMT

So I've decided to go Frankenstein and necro my Xanga for the ~~2nd~~ 3rd time (just in time for Halloween, no?). Lately, I've been so busy being a bum I hardly have time to do anything. I have several communities and projects, both personal and public, to keep up with plus I started an actual diary this year. I'll try to keep this blog updated when I can...

So what should I write about? Right now I'm working two part time jobs, one at a dog kennel and one at a college student housing complex. Not great work but not bad.

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I've been wondering lately if I fail "MOUSE" and truely am an Internet addict after all.

More than intended time spent online: No, I intend to spend 2-3 hours a day online
Other responsibilities neglected: No (I forget stuff sometimes but who doesn't?)
Unsuccessful attempts to cut down: No, since I haven't really tried to quit
Significant relationship discord because of use: No
Excessive thoughts or anxiety when not online: 50/50. I get pissy about not being online but I can live without it

I guess that would be a "no" but my mother argues otherwise.

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MP3 count: 776! I need to start thinking about more memory.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:49:04 GMT

Bah! Xanga's gotten so complicated and advanced since I left that I feel like a total newbie. It's gonna take a while to learn the ropes again. And yikes! my layout needs a definate touch up >.<

So my friends and I are going to Tekkoshocon this weekend in Pittsburgh and I'm totally psyched for it. I just wish we were going on Saturday instead of Sunday. It seems like everything will be dead on Sunday but who knows? Hopefully it will still be enjoyable. Next year we're gunning for all three days with a prereg. And if anyone is attending Tekko on Sunday look for the girl with a Gaia Online 4th anniversary Tshirt and a Naruto Sound Village headband on....not that I'm a Narutard or anything *coughcough*.

I'm so excited I even had a dream lastnight about going to it with Kevin Pereira, Olivia Munn, and Blair Butler. Don't ask me where that came from *sweatdrop*. I love AOTS but dreaming about hanging with some of nerdom's greatest gods and goddesses was odd for even me. I would completely embarass the hell out of myself if I were to ever meet them in real life. I am the epitome of Epic Fail ] :

What else is new *thinks*. I hit my first million on Gaia a while back. Gaia Online takes up pretty much all my life now. That and Current.com, Kawaii Radio, and Powerpets. Sad, I know.

PS- 655 songs on my MP3 player. W00t!

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:23:23 GMT

WOW! It's been almost a year since I last visited. Xanga's changed so much I hardly recognize it *is so lost* . I seriously need to update everything now.

I guess Gaia's been taking up pretty much all my time anymore . But no more! I've decided to try and revive my poor Xanga blog just for the heck of it. Perhaps blogging and keeping a journal in the real world might help with my bouts of depression. So let's see...

I'm 18 now, working once a week with my mother, striving for my drivers license, and shuddering at the thought of college .

Happy May 1st

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:58:40 GMT

Envirothon tomorrow!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:06:39 GMT

Holy crap! I haven't updated in over two months. I remember when this place with my life but I guess Gaia's really taken over.

Feeling a bit better today

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:31:36 GMT

I stayed home from school to recuperate and get some work done. Even though I finished a lot of projects I still feel like everything isn't finished. Maybe I'm just nervous about all my presentation and the fact that I know more work will be coming soon, as it always does when I finally get a moment of peace. Anyways, I finally started my graduation project on being a librarian. There isn't much written since I haven't received the green light on a job shadow yet but what is is quality research.

Also, I think I might start going to church. *dramatic pause* Yes, you heard right. Me = church. I took this religion test on Beliefnet.com just out of curiosity and it said my beliefs closely fit the Unitarian Universalist profile. I started doing some research on UUism and it really does match up with me. Not long after I saw an ad on TV for a book sale at a local UU church that I'd never known about before. Kinda took it as a sign. I went to the sale twice and was really intrigued by the people and the place itself.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:53:21 GMT

I'm starting to slip again. Back into depression.