I finally found a comic that perfectly suits me:
http://xkcd.com/

A couple of my favourites:

Playing Devil's Advocate for the win

Yeah, I know this is a cop-out of a blog, but this is what I filled my day with. Our trainer has the habit of going into in depth explanations of the concepts I completely grasp (oh no, reverse polish notation deserves a half hour explanation? Internet time...) and not enough explanation of concepts I don't get (which results in me writing equations frantically at lunch hour).

But man, 8 hours of geophysics a day is...a bit much. I'm starting to realize all that pretty pure math I learned just got ruined by the applied mathematicians (or reality if you want to get picky). Things that are really easy in theory, turn out to be a big bitch when they actually try to apply them. Similarly the big "interesting" (to me) problems, are just either glossed over or assumed to be one way or another.

It's funny, I'm so used to starting with something uber abstract, and then just going from there. But here, we start with a very concrete concept, a sound wave going through different layers of earth, and by the end of the presentation, it's all just abstraction. "That isn't even real! How the hell did we end up here?"

Math math math, seismic, geophysics, oil, Fourier.

Finally saw Borat last night. I laughed, but to say I was impressed is a blatent lie. Wow, people give strange reactions when you introduce them to a vastly different culture, k...

Speaking of culture, a few ideas I'm going to try in Houston: going to a firing range and shoot assault rifles, going to Sunday mass at a Fundamentalist Church, maybe a waterpark...with big fat Americans everywhere hahahaha.

I dunno what else, oh yeah: Click!