I am not cool.
I am not cool. Conversing with people on the internet is not a cool thing to do. Insightful, interesting, and thought-provoking, yes, but not cool. Science is not cool. Intellectual, innovative and incredibly useful, yes, but not cool. Teetotal is not cool and drinking alcohol in moderation is disobeying the social commandment of students. I prefer photoshop to painting; I prefer books to tv; I prefer writing to talking.
I am weird, I am geeky, I am quirky, I am special. I am the kind of person who makes a periodic table out of post-it notes or knows pi to eight decimal places, I am the type of person who spends a free morning looking at chemistry-based jewellery or trying out different ways to wear a lab coat.
Sometimes I pretend to be cool for the hell of it, and hey, sometimes I get away with it. But really, pretending to be cool is just another way of being weird. And to be honest, I'm quite alright with that.
:-)
ReplyDeleteI do like those Ag earrings! Potentially the pi ones also, as the mouseover informs me, but alas the image is restricted.
I really want the Ag ones. They say they can make any element of choice! Hopefully the pi picture should be fixed now? The problem is they're all American based products, so it's weighing up the postage vs worth of the item vs just how nerdy I want to appear to people...
ReplyDeleteFigured out the mystery molecular necklace?
They are all awesome, although I like the mystery molecular necklace is my favourite of the lot.
ReplyDeleteCool is overrated when you can have fun instead.
Are the Ag actually Ag? Or some other less sparkly substance?
@ 1st substantial paragraph (3rd paragraph): yes. Although, I do like talking, even where writing is good. I was writing actual handwritten letters to people in first year, but people stopped replying so it stopped. Should start that again with more willing correspondants!
NB: track down address book after unpacking stuff. Might be tricky.
Methinks so :-) Although it doesn't look *quite* the same as on Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteAaaah, talking, talking. Willing correspondents, talking.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever tried painting, by the way? Outside of a class room, I mean. I did used to enjoy it to a DEGREE (Photoshop FTW) but was still spectacularly bad.
ReplyDelete@Callan: The Ag earrings are indeed silver, $30 worth of it, hence why I can't purchase them.
ReplyDeleteThe molecular style silver jewellery is my fave aussi, though they are even more expensive so don't even bear thinking about! I would much like a pair of caffeine (or similar) earrings, though...
@Lucy: I imagine you will have discovered which it is, though yes, there are differences that make it more difficult to discern than a true skeleton formula.
@Adamymous: I'm rubbish at painting, but I am awesome at Paint Shop Pro, hence why I stick with the digital side of creative pictures...
Well, if it was your birthday...although not the necklace, intricately elegant as it is, because that does look muchos expensivo.
ReplyDeleteAre the caffeine earrings the same as the necklace? Can you get 'K' earrings made of potassium?*
*I can see the stern instruction booket already: 'ONLY wear on sunny days with no chance of rain. Do not wear in the shower/pool/rainforest. Earrings may tarnish quickly even if kept dry.
Clarification: the first necklace I mention is the one in your comment, the second the one in the blog. Necklace fail.
ReplyDeleteSo I'll expect them in 8 months' time then, Callan? :D
ReplyDeleteThe silver molecular earrings and necklaces are from here (the blog molecule is not caffeine, btw)
The Ag earrings are from here, though I did see a similar version here which also has genuine Cu and Au earrings, though I'd imagine anything with any element on it is unlikely to be made of that element entirely ;)
/geek
*any other element
ReplyDeleteThat's not uncool. Geek chic is where it's at.
ReplyDeleteYou should see some of my t-shirts, they're just as cool... (although not as cool as one I saw at uni last year - "A city built on rock and roll would be structurally unstable". CivEng lols)
(although the proper quote is "structurally unsound". Means the same thing, but reads better...)
ReplyDeleteBloody hell, how'd you get so many comments so quickly after such a long break?!
ReplyDeleteDiscounting my few, obvs.
i don't think there really is any such thing as 'cool' except to a select few people. These days the majority of my friends would say they were 'geeks' but know hardly anyone who wouldn't say that of themselves about something, whether they're an english geek, a computer geek, a mathmo or a chemistry geek, we're all geeks these days. Maybe we're all cool now too? And yes, as callan says, much more fun this way anyway.
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