I am not much into vain exhibitionism. My favorite color is a very dark, lush green of some sort. My walls are some vague reflection of this color. My room is my sanctuary, and I've built my life around it as much as I've built it around my life. I enjoy so much elitist indie, electronic, and just plain stupidly "obscure" music that I could probably gloat about my music tastes if I felt so inclined, which I do not. I owe the better part of my life to Soulseek. No, it's not a dating service. Collecting quality CD's is pretty critical to my wellbeing. One might categorize my musical breadth from powerfully ambient, inanely danceable, mind-fuckingly abrasive, and simply nostalgic, preferably all together. I enjoy A&W root beer and Schweppes ginger ale. I am very particular when it comes to most edible consumables. In fact, I hate food and having to eat. I also enjoy unnecessary adjectives and pointlessly long-winded statements. Life's too short to not spend the entire time talking. I am a hell of a geek, and I'm slowly becoming a nerd, and yes, there is a difference. I love filling my room with wires to interconnect things that should not be. I own no less than four actively functioning computers (not including virtual computers), and no less than two more potentially functioning computers. I know pi to the 40th decimal, and no, it has absolutely no practical implementation. I'm hypocritical about a lot of things, and I hate hypocrites. I don't hold anyone (including myself) to much of anything. Except ones word. I value honor. I don't feel that there are any absolute answers. I am constantly adjusting my opinions to reflect new information. I hate most everything, but I love life and all the good and bad that comes with it. Experiences (big or small) are the crux of my contentment. I'm skinny and have long hair and scraggly facial hair most of the time, all of which is a product of laziness and apathy toward social standards. I try not to look like total shit, though. I love psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and I love a good dispute. I'm good at making a heated debate out of anything, even if I ultimately disagree with myself. I've been known to frustrate people. I've been known to go above and beyond the call of duty to help those that I feel need it. I've been known to be the sweetest guy in the world. I've been known to be an asshole. I say what I want, and I mean what I say. I don't lie. Ever. I don't make promises. Ever. I don't keep secrets... unless they're not mine, in which case I have an overbearing sense of righteous obligation to protect those who place trust in me. I still tend to advise against it. I trust once and very rarely twice. Take advantage of my inherent kindness and you will never see me by your side again. Commitment is different than a promise, and I always honor my commitments to the greatest extent of my ability. I save some of the stupidest things, such as a bare power transformer and several small metal hooks. I generally like a lot of order and routine in my immediate surroundings. I have no problem throwing something away if it has no perceived or defined place or purpose. I like making use of random things, such as the lamp I built out of a wall fixture, a speaker wire spool, and a floor lamp shade—and the small metal hooks. I failed high school, in that I gave up and never completed two of my English semesters, but I still went to class until the very last day of my senior year mostly to continue my education. I got my GED several months later, took a five-month break, and started college that spring/winter with a whole new outlook and a hell of an ambition. Those five months were the best of my life. I'm now pursuing an electrical engineering degree (with all manner of certificates, associates degrees, and minors, if I can help it) mostly for the fuck of it and because I love learning. I started college planning to only complete a simple associates program, but quickly I realized how much I loved college, and I found the best way I could to justify forcing myself to take the math and science classes that I so much enjoy. I go to Century Community and Technical College, and anyone who tells me that community college is worthless shall feel my wrath. I plan to transfer to the U of M out of convenience, not for prestige or their pretty buildings. My parents divorced when I was fourteen which was of no real surprise to me at the time. I had a pet cat throughout my childhood, but he became increasingly ill and was subsequently put down. I've yet to know a single pet to live up to the standards set in my childhood, and, as a result, I generally do not like pets. I never did like dogs. I'm a loner and a loser, and I enjoy it. Pessimistic, cynical sarcasm is my friend. Or maybe it's cynical, sarcastic pessimism. In any case, I love those three words. I say things like I know it. I don't know anything. I speak only from experience. I've only had one real job so far. I loved being paid to be out driving around in the middle of the night, and I still have nostalgic feelings for fall nights especially around grocery stores and closed gas stations out in the middle of nowhere. Delivering papers is really fucking boring, though. Nevertheless, I am planning on insanity by the age of forty, resulting in the rejection of all my lively possessions and attachments to society, living off my earnings from my triumphant return to paper delivery. I can't wait. I've decided that my life can be divided into four eras, all revolving around my vehicles: the pre-vehicle youth and innocence, the Neon (Neo) age of realization and growth, the Volvo (Malt Shop) age of independence, and the presently unnamed and undefined age of the Mercedes. I love cars but know very little about them. I hope to take auto tech classes as part of my insane amount of superfluous education within the next four years. I am generally a very logical and analytical thinker, but my logic has been developed to involve many different aspects of romance and illogical emotions. I still maintain that love is not nearly as godlike and impossible as everyone makes it out to be. I feel I've truly loved in my life. I've had roughly four to five instances of romantic love, all of which have been complicated beyond belief. The original three have taught me indispensable lessons of love and what commitment means, and I honestly feel that I have a solid grasp on the matter as a result. The latter two remain an inconvenient complication in my life, but I have recently begun to feel that they have taught me something very important as well, though I've yet to discover exactly what. I don't believe in true love. Love is just an emotion, no matter how powerful, and is just as subject to circumstance as anything else. But it's still worth fighting for. I don't regret anything in my life. I value every experience I have had. I eat nothing but pizza most of the time. I prefer night to day and rain to shine. Some of the most nostalgic memories I have as a kid relate to either rain or my parents' music (most of which I now enjoy myself). I've always wanted to share the experience of a rainstorm with someone I feel very close to, preferably at night. I've tried to start flossing daily. I've tried to start eating at least twice daily. I've been failing as of late. I don't like spare change, and I don't keep money in my wallet. I hate people who don't close cabinet doors, block my car in, move my things, leave retainers or toothpaste tubes sitting on the bathroom counter, make a mess in or of anyone else's private or public property, or are otherwise incapable of logically analyzing the impact of their actions on others. I also hate all people. I make exceptions for those that I like. The truth is, I care too much for my own good. Children bother the hell out of me, and I will sooner be castrated than be an accessory to the problem. I love ranting about social issues, especially double standards for women, corporate involvement and marketing, hippies with no foresight or sense of reality, zealots, those with excessively ignorant and emotion-driven political ambitions, drug abusing morons, and just anything I think is detrimental to the common good of humanity (which can often be a pretty large sum). I am sober and clean and have always been. I am not straight-edge and I have no desire for anyone else to be who does not feel it benefits their life. I am trying to be more accepting of casual drug usage, but I find it hard to put my concern for the health and wellbeing of those I care about aside in favor of what feels like concession for the sake of making my life easier. I have no moral issue with drugs, though, and I can understand their value to society, regardless of if it applies to me or not. I own a pocket watch, but now that I have a cell phone I never carry it, and I hate that fact. I love outdated media formats including vinyl and laserdiscs. I've always been able to think clearer in the middle of the night. Clarity is a subjective matter. If you get me talking, I don't shut up. If I talk to you at all, you're one of the "lucky" few. I'm generally not as arrogant or angry as I might seem at first glance. I enjoy pretending to be stubborn and standing up for myself, regardless of how inane. Most people seem to like me, at least the few who know me. I'm not particularly social and I don't go to parties. In fact, I don't particularly do anything. I'm pretty boring. I don't really mind. I enjoy reclusion. I do like to have people to talk to, though. I'm just not as good at it in person. But that's why Al Gore invented the Internet. Hi. I'm Iggy Snigs, and no, that's not my real name.
Basically, I wear combat boots and a fedora and act like that makes sense.
(cos³x + sin³x)/(1 - 2cos²x) = [cosx(1 - sin²x) + sinx(1 - cos²x)]/(1 - cos²x - cos²x) = (sinx - sin²xcosx + cosx - cos²xsinx)/(sin²x - cos²x) = [sinx(1 - sinxcosx) + cosx(1 - sinxcosx)]/[(sinx + cosx)(sinx - cosx)] = (1 - sinxcosx)/(sinx - cosx) = (secx - sinx)/(tanx - 1)
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(secx - sinx)/(tanx - 1) = (1 - sinxcosx)/(sinx - cosx) = (sinx + cosx - sin²xcosx - cos²xsinx)/(sin²x - cos²x) = (sinx + cosx - cosx + cos³x - sinx + sin³x)/(1 - cos²x - cos²x) = (cos³x + sin³x)/(1 - 2cos²x)
