No, not the cosmological model of the universe whose primary assertion is that the universe has expanded into its current state from a primordial condition of enormous density and temperature (isn’t wikipedia great?). I’m talking about the TV show. My new favorite pastime is watching TV shows online and after I got caught up on How I Met Your Mother, I explored over onto The Big Bang Theory. It’s about two socially inept science prodigies and their smoking hot neighbor from across the hall. It’s certainly not a show for everyone, but I find it incredibly funny. Partly because I have a bit of inner dork in me, but mostly because I went to school with kids like these from 4th grade until high school graduation. There’s something about seeing the social retardedness that me and my friends in high school could only imagine. Oh yeah, Kaley Cuoco is also a lot of fun to look at.
See, told you so.
I went through the majority of grade school around kids like these. I don’t know if they were quite geniuses, but its the closest I’ve ever been to a group of prodigies. As much as we like to joke and make fun of nerds, I have always been just a little bit envious of these kids and the ease at which they grasp incredibly difficult math and physics concepts. My SAT score was on par with these kids and my grades weren’t much worse. But they did it with such ease.
I finished AP Calculus half way through junior year and got a 5 on the exam. But, I had to bust my ass throughout that class. It would take me an hour and 5 tries to solve an integral that would take them 10 minutes. If I remember correctly, the AP Calc exam had four 50 minute sections. I finished each section with maybe 5 minutes to spare. The kid sitting next to me, he would put his head down after about 20 minutes, completely done. If you haven’t a clue what I’m talking about, just imagine John Nash in A Beautiful Mind when he wasn’t hallucinating. These people see patterns as obvious that many of us would never see no matter how hard we tried.
No, I don’t want to be these people. I’m quite content with my social skills and intelligence level. But for a day or two, I wouldn’t mind trading social skills just to see what it’s like to be a genius and actually understand a Fourier series, not just be told why it works and how to use it.
Speaking of a big bang, my family wants one of these for Thanksgiving. Yes, my brother tells me we’re having turducken. That’s chicken stuffed inside duck stuffed inside turkey. So instead of having the usual 2 birds that we can never finish we’re going to have 3. Oh, and if you’re really hungry, you can lay strips of bacon on top or stuff the chicken with sausage. YUM! Talk about gluttony.
But, why stop at just 3? How about the 7 fowl turduckencorpheail. Or why not just go ALL THE WAY with the 17 species of the bustergophechiduckneaealcockidgeoverwingailusharkolanbler. I swear to God, I’m not making any of this up. Wikipedia said it’s true, so it must be.
Filed under: Family, Holidays, Plain Strange, School, Television | Tagged: A Beautiful Mind, Genius, John Nash, Kaley Cuoco, Thanksgiving, The Big Bang Theory, Turducken
Turducken is supposed to be very tasty, although I’ve never tried it. A few co-workers have and speak of it like it’s the best Thanksgiving meal ever. All the fat from the duck keeps it moist inside, but it also packs a lot of calories. If you’re watching your diet turducken can be deadly. And yes, it is a real meal.
5′8″, 140 DING! You think I’m worried about gaining weight? I couldn’t gain weight if I tried to. Turducken here we come.
I’ve got 7″ and close to 100 pounds on you, so I watch that kind of stuff.
MMM…. The “inner dork” in me wants to watch The Big Bang Theory… oh wait… I think that photo of Kaley makes me want to watch.
HIMYM is “Lege…… wait for it…. gendary”… just wish I could watch more often.
Speaking of MMM… add bacon to ANYTHING and it’ll be awesome. Wes, make sure that the Turducken is a yearly tradition.
CBS has full episodes of most of its shows online. Watch them there.
this article came up from a “turducken math” google search