Why do I never have all three at once?

A long time ago there lived two sisters. The older one was witty and brave, and the younger one was beautiful and kind. They lived together in an old shack, but were happy and loved each other, and what one lacked, the other had ( Read more... )

[long entry about Nationals will be posted here, some time between now and May graduation ( Read more... )

I finally got my E today, and was about 5 touches away from a D. I wish I had time to write about it, although I am not very excited or happy about getting a rating at this time of the year. Now I can't fence in the U tournament at Pomme de Terre. And E is not a big deal anyway. But it was good to clear my head and put my problems and worries ( Read more... )

WTF... I'm so out of sync with the rest of the world...

- NFC
- classes
- New England Championships

I went to the C and under at WFC yesterday. 21 fencers, 3 pools. Mine was 2 Cs, 1 D and 3 other Us. I lost to Tamar Agulian and won the other five and was seeded third with a +10 indicator. So far so good. I had a bye, then fenced Maureen Woodward (D06) from CCFC. I don't even know what CCFC are, and I already hate them. The bout was tough, but the ( Read more... )

Well, here it is. My last semester begins tomorrow, and with it comes an end to everything I know and love. I'm beginning to feel like a sheep that got kicked out of her green and cozy farm and into the wilderness of dark forests where wolves hide behind every tree and owls throw pine cones at her, and it's dark and scary and there's no internet, ( Read more... )

First I must confess that I never heard about this Sut Jhally guy until he - "a professor of communications at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, [that] maintained that the show ["24"] was part of Fox's "propaganda system" to reinforce stereotypes about Arabs" - was mentioned in the imdb news today ( Read more... )

Want to prove: ALL ODD NUMBERS GREATER THAN 2 ARE PRIME

Mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime - then by induction...

Physicist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an experimental error...

Engineer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime...

Engineer with a calculator: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is approximately prime ( Read more... )