Calling your own bluff is tougher than you might think

Ciao, friends. Qwest sucks, but despite this well-known fact I finally have internet again, which means I can make good on my commitment to blog more. I admit, resolution is really the wrong word for the thing that I made around new years. It was more of a proposition. Even without resolve, reasonable propositions might still count for something, am I right?

Anyone reading my last post probably assumed that I was being tongue-in-cheek or something when I promised to chart my sleep habits for all of cyberspace to see. You can laugh or cry, and you can judge me for wasting 60 minutes of my life, but all those who doubted me can go ahead and SUCK GRAPH!

"Great!", you might say, "But what does it mean?"

(On second thought, nobody I know would actually respond that way)

I intend to use heinous overgeneralizations and basic techniques taught in high school math to reach a nonsense answer to this question. So, when we assume linearity, we can see that the points fall around the best-fit line of y= 0.0104x+0.2968. This allows us to declare the following by extrapolation:

1) I got up at 7:20 the day before I started recording data points.
2) 67 days from now, I will be waking up shortly before midnight

The future looks bleak for me, friends. Or, maybe it's not so bad and I'm making some feeble point about jumping to conclusions or offering simple solutions for complicated situations.

In other news, I decided that if I had to choose a favorite book of the bible (and I don't have to choose one, so there), it might be Hebrews. That may be partly related to why I forced Hope On Campus to look at this last night:

"1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."

I think this is a good word for anyone, but especially those people who see alot of text (as found, for instance, on this post) and then skip to the end and try to just catch the concluding point. No, brother, that's what perseverance is about.

It's now late, and decent thoughts are getting harder to come by. Thanks for playing!