Comments I Wrote on Tests

I've been grading tests. Here are some of the fun comments I made:

Student: "Consider the language L={a,b | a! = b} (factorial), this can obviously not be recognized in 2ⁿ steps."
Me: "Really? There is a O(n (log n log log n)²) algorithm for factorials. Ooooo. Burn!"

Student: "If the TM had only 1 state, and the size of the alphabet = 2 it would appear more like 2^|w|..."
Me: "That's crazy talk."

Student: Long answer...
Me: "So close, but then you went on a tangent instead of hitting the answer."

Student: "The answer is Yesssssss but only 7 s's because too many s's will mean less mercy points if I'm wrong."
Me: "Sorry, check your coin again."

Canada

I was just catching up on some old Snide Remarks when I ran across this statement, I almost died:

Canada seems like France and England got together and had a baby, but they couldn't take care of it, so they sent it off to be raised by American parents, who abused it.

Democracy

So, I've been thinking over some of the results of the election. If you look through the results you'll find that several anti-gay-marriage measures passed in several states. People that support gay-marriage are irate over those measures passing, and many are taking aim at the LDS church. Unfortunately for them, when it comes down to it, the people that live in those areas voted, it was their votes that decided the outcome. The LDS church, or any other organization, didn't force anyone to vote one way or the other, there was no voter intimidation. The will of the people allowed measured like Proposition 8 to pass. That's how Democracy works. Sorry you don't like it. Sometimes Democracy doesn't turn out the way you want, I direct you towards the 8 years of Bush that we had to put up with. But you don't get to agree with Democracy when it goes your way, and then argue against Democracy when things go the other way.

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about the LDS church's role in the passing of Proposition 8. Yes, the church supported it. Yes, the church encouraged people to donate to the campaign to pass Prop 8. However, as always, individual members were allowed to decide the matter for themselves. You can oppose Proposition 8 and still be a temple worthy church member. Church members were not being "forced" or "coerced" into supporting, donating towards, or voting for Proposition 8.

I'm sorry if Democracy didn't work out for you this time. You can do what everyone else does, suck it up, and better luck next time. If the monetary contributions made by LDS church members was enough to swing the vote to pass Proposition 8 then next time your side will need to raise more money, that's how Democracy works. Deal with it.

Where You're From

I enjoy looking over the Google Analytics information every so often. The current crop of data is rather interesting because of the diverse and international readership that I apparently have, on occasion at least.

Here's the stats on where my visitors come from (over the last 30 days):
United States ---- 365
Canada ----------- 6
United Kingdom --- 5
Germany ---------- 3
Malaysia --------- 2
Saudi Arabia ----- 2
Mexico ----------- 1
Iran ------------- 1
Finland ---------- 1
Chile ------------ 1
Pakistan --------- 1
Poland ----------- 1
India ------------ 1
Romania ---------- 1
France ----------- 1
South Korea ------ 1
Spain ------------ 1

That's a pretty cool list if you ask me.

Michael Crichton Died

'Jurassic Park' author, 'ER' creator Crichton dies

I rather enjoyed most of Crichton's works. Too bad there will be no more to read now.

Hallelujah!

Obama won! Best part is that it wasn't even close so the McCain supporters won't be able to go around for weeks complaining about this or that, he lost, and his supporters booed when he conceded; real classy.

Too bad it took 8 years of idiocracy for enough of this country to realize what was happening, but now we can finally start drifting back towards the middle and a President who doesn't say things like "One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see--I've forgot the name of the program--but you get the satellite, and you can like, I kinda like to look at the ranch."

Questions For Me

Well, mainly just one question for me:

For someone so cynical about so much of life why do I allow myself to be so foolishly optimistic about dating?

Why do I let myself build up hopes and wishes when I know that it will only mean there will be further to fall when things don't work out, which they never do. So, I guess it's time to be done with all the nonsense of dating again for awhile. I've put myself out there several times in the last few months, and I'm tired of the results.