Oh yay, we're all going to die
First off, I have my first AP Exam on Monday. At twelve noon. This is why I haven't been around (but right now I'm taking a break so that I may type to my heart's content.)
My programming class yesterday was just... very amusing. One of my classmates kept on talking loudly at the beginning of class about how some guy managed to shut down the internet because he was on 50 sites at once. This is the same kid who has tried to sell our programming teacher a coke and got his question privileges (jokingly) revoked after asking what the O in I/O meant - something we learned on the third day of class or so (it means Output, if you'd like to know).
And, before class started, we winded up getting into a discussion about Swine Flu. Yesterday a school in our area was closed because of a suspected case of Swine Flu, which is, incidentally, my programming teacher's Alma mater, and currently 5 miles from his residence. He also shops at the same grocery store as all the students do, and, well, he was a bit scared to say the least.
But this Swine Flu is still a bit strange. I'm reading a book called "A Short History of Nearly Everything" - a must read - and yesterday I came to the part where it talked about Swine Flu. I didn't know that the Swine Flu was the same virus that caused the 1918 outbreak, so that was cool to learn, but, (this book was published in 2003), the last sentence of the couple of paragraphs that is dedicated to Swine Flu, it says "No one can rule out the possibility that the Great Swine Flu epidemic might once again rear it's head".
Which immediately creeped me out.
Though I will have to say my favorite quote from there are the famous words that Conway Morris apparently said as he was sifting through tens of thousands of unexplored specimens : "Oh fuck, not another phylum."
Seriously, Liang needs to say that.
So, I shall get back to my studies, and eventually I'll come back to Livejournal to whine about how hard my tests were and how I should of studied harder.
Later~!
EDIT: Ok, I just got Time and I'm literally laughing out loud at two things:
1) "New study says conservatives fail to realize that Stephen Colbert is moking them."
Makes me wonder if I could actually watch The Colbert Report with my uber-republican cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.
2) Time asks famous people to write about who's the most influential person of the year. One guy up for influential-ness : moot, creator of 4chan. Author of the article: Rick Astley.
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My programming class yesterday was just... very amusing. One of my classmates kept on talking loudly at the beginning of class about how some guy managed to shut down the internet because he was on 50 sites at once. This is the same kid who has tried to sell our programming teacher a coke and got his question privileges (jokingly) revoked after asking what the O in I/O meant - something we learned on the third day of class or so (it means Output, if you'd like to know).
And, before class started, we winded up getting into a discussion about Swine Flu. Yesterday a school in our area was closed because of a suspected case of Swine Flu, which is, incidentally, my programming teacher's Alma mater, and currently 5 miles from his residence. He also shops at the same grocery store as all the students do, and, well, he was a bit scared to say the least.
But this Swine Flu is still a bit strange. I'm reading a book called "A Short History of Nearly Everything" - a must read - and yesterday I came to the part where it talked about Swine Flu. I didn't know that the Swine Flu was the same virus that caused the 1918 outbreak, so that was cool to learn, but, (this book was published in 2003), the last sentence of the couple of paragraphs that is dedicated to Swine Flu, it says "No one can rule out the possibility that the Great Swine Flu epidemic might once again rear it's head".
Which immediately creeped me out.
Though I will have to say my favorite quote from there are the famous words that Conway Morris apparently said as he was sifting through tens of thousands of unexplored specimens : "Oh fuck, not another phylum."
Seriously, Liang needs to say that.
So, I shall get back to my studies, and eventually I'll come back to Livejournal to whine about how hard my tests were and how I should of studied harder.
Later~!
EDIT: Ok, I just got Time and I'm literally laughing out loud at two things:
1) "New study says conservatives fail to realize that Stephen Colbert is moking them."
Makes me wonder if I could actually watch The Colbert Report with my uber-republican cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.
2) Time asks famous people to write about who's the most influential person of the year. One guy up for influential-ness : moot, creator of 4chan. Author of the article: Rick Astley.
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