Well, I had another conversation with warmhandsovenman. This is the same guy, I presume, who previously tried to give me a survey. Here's the transcript:
warmhandsovenman: hiu
Me: hello
warmhandsovenman: What's up?
Me: not much.
Me: what's up with you?
warmhandsovenman: Working on my degree.
Me: what's your major?
warmhandsovenman: math
Me: what courses are you taking?
warmhandsovenman: Algebra of complex variables, political sciences, and chem. as a minor.
Me: is math hard?
warmhandsovenman: Sort of.
warmhandsovenman: I'm working at it more and more, so I'm getting better.
warmhandsovenman: But yes, I'd have to admit that a course like Algebra of complex variables is a bit challenging.
Me: so does taking math courses mean that you're a nerd?
warmhandsovenman: Nope.
warmhandsovenman: I'm active.
warmhandsovenman: I got a girl!
Me: captain of the football team?
warmhandsovenman: Nah.
warmhandsovenman: I participate in water polo.
Me: is that hard?
Me: it looks hard
warmhandsovenman: pretty
warmhandsovenman: hard
Me: I bet it's not as hard as math, though
warmhandsovenman: what a lot of people don't know is that half of the game is underwater.
Me: math is hard
warmhandsovenman: do u like it?
Me: I've never played water polo, actually
Me: but it looks like fun
warmhandsovenman: It is
Me: and I guess that you don't get sweaty while playing it
Me: that's a major downside to most sports
warmhandsovenman: True
warmhandsovenman: do you like math?
Me: math is really hard
Me: and it's not like the problems have anything to do with real life
Me: I mean, if Bob has three times as many coins as Teri and combined they have $1.50, if you want to know how many quarters Bob has, just ask him!
Me: I guess that it might be kind of useful if Bob and Teri were blind and had no arms
Me: but there aren't many people like that
Me: do you know what I mean?
Me: it's hard to relate to
warmhandsovenman: Yeah
Me: plus, it's hard
Me: I mean, who likes working?
warmhandsovenman: algebra at least
warmhandsovenman: do u take any forign languages?
Me: no
Me: I took spanish in high school
Me: and I took German my freshman year
Me: but I'm not taking any foreign languages now
warmhandsovenman: i see
warmhandsovenman: did you like spanish?
Me: how about you?
warmhandsovenman: nope
warmhandsovenman: how'd you like spanish?
Me: it was OK
Me: kind of fun, in its way
Me: a lot of memorization, though
warmhandsovenman: i hate conjugating the spanish verbs, etcf
warmhandsovenman: etc*
Me: but at least all of the work is about stuff you can relate to
Me: who doesn't need to go to the mall to buy a sweater?
Me: you know what I'm saying?
warmhandsovenman: yup
warmhandsovenman: You need language4
warmhandsovenman: do you think you can relate to history?
Me: what's language4?
Me: is that some computer program to teach foreign languages?
warmhandsovenman: yees
warmhandsovenman: yes*
Me: I hate computers
warmhandsovenman: you know what i hate
warmhandsovenman: ?
Me: what?
warmhandsovenman: AutoCAD.
warmhandsovenman: It sucks/
Me: I can believe it
warmhandsovenman: it's difficult and it's really boring
Me: but I guess that designing buildings sucks no matter how you do it
warmhandsovenman: yup
Me: but, yeah, I can relate to history
warmhandsovenman: do you like english?
Me: I love english!
warmhandsovenman: it's neat
Me: it sure is
warmhandsovenman: do you like sciences like biology?
Me: biology is cool
Me: it would be awesome to work with dolphins
warmhandsovenman: yeah
Me: or whales
Me: I'm not picky :-)
warmhandsovenman: do you like calc?
Me: but dolphins are just incredible
Me: I mean, they have a form of underwater telepathy
Me: where they use sound to see what's around them
Me: that's so cool
warmhandsovenman: do you like calculus?
Me: why would I like that?
warmhandsovenman: maybe it's fuin
warmhandsovenman: fun*
Me: do you like calculus?
warmhandsovenman: Sort of.
Me: why?
warmhandsovenman: It's sort of interesting
Me: you don't find it boring?
warmhandsovenman: not really
warmhandsovenman: do u think it's hard/
Me: who doesn't think that calculus is hard?
Me: aside from albert einstein, or whoever invented it, I mean
Me: obviously he thinks it's easy
warmhandsovenman: he's a born math wiz
Me: yeah
Me: to some people math comes easy
Me: but the rest of us have to work at it
Me: maybe math is just a game to keep the rest of us down
Me: and make us feel dumb
Me: you only see math in western european cultures, after all
warmhandsovenman: could be
Me: some cultures don't even have a concept of numbers
Me: that's why the native americans sold manhattan for some pearls
Me: they didn't have any concept of counting
Me: to them, everything was one and one was everything
Me: there wasn't any particular or any general
Me: just particular generality
Me: so manhattan was no more than the beads, and no less
warmhandsovenman: gtg