i wanted to wait to post this so i could link to the results page, but they haven't put it up yet...*shrugs* so anyway, here's the story:

short versioni correctly solved 5 problems, which was my goal. since i wasn't the fastest person to solve five, that placed me fourteenth out of about 100. (the top four people solved seven.) i think it's a ( Read more... )

i'm really nervous about a programming competition i'm going to tomorrow. i didn't want to write about it because ( Read more... )

a long time ago (or maybe not so long ago), the mortality rate in america was much higher than it is today. something like half the people born were expected to die as children, and those who survived looked forward to diseases and early deaths ( Read more... )

i was watching the simpsons last night, and i was thinking about how random it's gotten lately. homer stole the olympic torch, bart had a rich girlfriend, the family visited a private school fair, skinner did standup, everybody went to canada...and that's just one episode. sure, most of these elements were loosely tied together, and of course ( Read more... )

yesterday was a good day. ...well except for when my legs felt really weak for no apparent reason. (i just couldn't let that positive statement go unqualified ( Read more... )

we had to watch this stupid video in calculus today...it was the standard deviants. i hate those videos so much! they waste my time by showing things that have no relevance to the task at hand in the name of "entertainment." maybe if they just explained how to do the problem, the video would be much shorter and i could find my own entertainment ( Read more... )

i'm engaged to be married ( Read more... )

i toooo have fallen p-rey to 6the nose-tytping trend. aah sasveb me111 no savge yourswelf while yuoun still can111111 ( Read more... )

as i rode to school this morning, i thought about how i used to feel nauseous whenever i rode in the car for more than about 20 minutes...but now i have two longish rides everyday (~31 min) and i don't get sick ( Read more... )

i like silence...sometimes. i guess most people do. it just seems like i never have it. i'm not home by myself very often, and my parents always have the tv on. grr. plus my whole family is generally excitable (ie they yell a lot ( Read more... )