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HIBACHI!

About Me



.... I'm an econ student at UNLV. Pastimes: philosophy (philosophical preferences are: political = libertarian; ethics= Ayn Rand, Aristotle, and Nietzsche; Of Mathematics: Formalism a la Alan Turin/David Hilbert; Of Mind= Of Mind; Logic = ..preferably deductive?), mathematics/logic puzzles, Basketballing (Mavericks), Cartoons (South Park and the Venture Brothers), Comic Strips (Calvin and Hobbes), and other marginal-- yet appreciative-- things.

My Interests

Logic, Philosophy, Mathematics, Heuristics, models and models (HA-HA!~) Computers, Economics, Music, Coffee, Tea, AD LIBS, Smug Intellectualism

I'd like to meet:

People who can't argue:

Music:

Industrial, Trance, Classical, Hip-Hop, Pop-Music, etc.

Movies:

Planet of the Apes, 300, Apocalypto, Kill Bill, Gladiator, James Bond Films, Thank you for smoking, Madagascar, AND THOSE CRAZY ARISTOCATS

Television:

South Park, Numb3rs, Venture Brothers

Books:

Atlas Shrugged. Industrial Society and Its Future, Bonfire of the Vanities, Nichomachean Ethics , Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Man Economy and State, Human Action, The Road to Serfdom, The Intelligent Investor, Logic Made Easy, Mental Math Tricks, 1984, Beatitudes, How to Solve it, Coincidences Chaos and all that Math Jazz, Hardy Boys, Leviathan, Second Treatise on Government, The Fountainhead, Anthem, We the Living, Economic Science and the Austrian Method, Critique of Pure Reason, I am Charlotte Simmons, Return to the Primitive, God of the Machine, Theory of Money and Credit, The Republic, The Voice of Reason, For the New Intellectual, The Virtue of Selfishness, Tractatus-logico-philosophicus, Theodicee, Principles of Theoretical Logic,The Prince, Power and Market, Ethics of Liberty, Discourse on the Method, THE COMPLETE CALVIN AND HOBBES

Heroes:

Philosophers, Scientists, Heroes, Dreamers, Named and Unnamed Influences, and Me

My Blog

Quantum Mechanics

Is so fucking Byzantine, I don't know what type of physicist could withstand all the varying interpretations of it.
Posted by Vince 0 on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:45:00 PST

Why I am wiser than you.

1. I am an economics major2. I'm invincible to your insults because you-- the knave-- does not necessarily exists to me. Tarantulas3. I taught myself mathematics-- trig and calculus-- during a semeste...
Posted by Vince 0 on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:29:00 PST

Macroeconomics

Is perhaps the most retarded branch in the whole corpus of the entire study. Along with neo-keynesian inflation theory, GDP/CPI/PPI measurements, and rehashed monetary theory that should have been cov...
Posted by Vince 0 on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:26:00 PST

Bill Gates

if he worked a 9-5 and had to punch out for 1 second to pick up a 100 dollar bill he would be losing money within the year that his shares in Microsoft gained the most net value.Nerds own you. So, sto...
Posted by Vince 0 on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:57:00 PST

Economic

Instructor keeps equating economics as logic. It's not a valid argument unless its subjected to formal deduction; the significance of inductive reasoning notwithstanding. Otherwise, please don't tell ...
Posted by Vince 0 on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:40:00 PST

Firearms Fallacies and Government Force

Firearms represent a lot of things to a lot of people: hubris, emotions, homicide, suicide, a way out, a way in, and preservation.When I was young I grew up with a mildly conservative Italian family i...
Posted by Vince 0 on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:46:00 PST

AN AD LIB HERE, AN AD LIB THERE, FUCK IT AD LIBS EVERYWHERE

Amica VINCEnes (12:38:00 AM): you should be a philosophy majorAmica VINCEnes (12:38:13 AM): b/c your prose is dirtier than a fremont street oneAmica VINCEnes (12:38:28 AM): (prose being ambiguously me...
Posted by Vince 0 on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:03:00 PST

Characteristics of a Hero

-taking responsibility for your triumphs and failures-not saying "what is the meaning of life" but living it-affirming that the most paramount thing is your happiness and not blaming your misfortunes...
Posted by Vince 0 on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:57:00 PST

Infatuation with Math and a brief Aside

Most of you have inquired into my recent penchant for math. To be honest with you the Raison d'ĂȘtre for this is simple: it is within my own intellectual pursuit. Sure, there were some personal implica...
Posted by Vince 0 on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:49:00 PST

Fallacy of Flat Tax

Flat tax is an absurd proposal; in fact, all taxes are an absurd proposal. Particularly, Flat Tax supplements the ethical and logical paradox about taxation altogether. The political zeitgeist (meani...
Posted by Vince 0 on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:02:00 PST