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In light of the new Dark Tower book being released this last week, I'm going to read through all four of the ones that came before while I wait for the paperback edition to be released next June. I figure that it will probably take me that long to get through them. I've never read "The Gunslinger" or "The Drawing of the Three." I picked up "Wastelands" at the library when I was in junior high school and just went from there. The third book really explains a lot of what happens before, so I really didn't feel the need to read the others. However, now I will read them simply for completeness and because I have nothing better to read.

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NBC's little tv movie about Jessica Lynch is on tonight. Yeah, I really don't think I'll be adding to their ratings. Why has she gotten so much more attention than any other POWs in this war or in any war for that matter? Is it because she's a female? Is it because she's so willing to tell every gruesome detail about her experience to the press? The whole media circus around her disgusts me on some level, and I can't quite explain why. It's just annoying.

I probably sound like an insensitive bitch. Yes, she went through a lot. I'm not saying she's a liar. I'm actually surprised that she's so damn chipper about talking about it. I did a research project on prisoners of war in World War II, and I talked to a few of them myself. There's very little that they want to talk about in regards to what they went through. It almost seemed physically painful for them to even think about it.

Well, in any case, I have no desire to see any overdramatized based-on-a-true-story flick tonight. I have better things to do.

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Yay for debate! I very much appreciate when people actually do it with some amount of respect for one another instead of giving up and resorting to attacks on intelligence and other childish namecalling. *cough*debate*cough* So people disagree. That doesn't make either side any less of a person, and I hate it when people think otherwise.

Anyway, who would like to tell me why I'm getting a volume of 0 on this integration in cylindrical coordinates? When you do a triple integral to find the volume of a cylinder-based solid, does your theta value range from 0 to 2-pi (I can't do theta symbols or pi symbols in here)? I think that's where I'm getting hung up, because my integration involves sin and cos, and when I put in 0 and 2-pi...they're the same value so they cancel each other out. Yeah, so I will not be surprised if no one replies to this, lol. Only I'm crazy enough to take a class in this shit.