Hot damn! I finished all my homework due Monday (physics, discrete, physics lab, documentary proposal, and an article for TSL) before midnight on Saturday. On to Vegas tomorrow! Ironically, I have to get up at 7:30 to catch a bus at 8:30, which is earlier than I've gotten up all year. And on Monday I have to catch a bus at 6:45! Murder. ( Read more... )

This is cool, although I definitely haven't been to the far northern reaches of Canada.


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Lesson In Political Science
(no animals were maimed or killed during any part of this test)

DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICANISM
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your ( Read more... )

The reinstitution of the "Angela Needs Fifteen Thousand Dollars to Buy Her Dad's Car in Three Years" Fund (A.N.F.T.D.B.H.D.C.T.Y.F.) has suffered a serious attack by one or possibly multiple local renegades. Sometime between 1:30 and 8:30 on the morning of October 3, 2005, the top half of a stale, wheat hamburger bun was inserted into the Fund box ( Read more... )

“And I don’t have a third point for my summary of today’s lecture, so I’ll just leave you with this: ‘The midterm will be horrific.’”

~ Prof Sahakian

“Last year in E & M I kept telling the sophomores that the first midterm was going to be horrific, and I was just doing it to scare them.  But then I gave the midterm, and it turned out that it ( Read more... )

Last night was a party. I didn't really get started on my Fourier homework until about 7:00, and by 7:15 I realized I'd be lucky if I were still awake for the MuCC meeting at 10:00. I was exhausted. So I sat my desk staring at the Fourier problems and not really doing any of them for quite a while, then decidedly gave up on accomplishing the ( Read more... )

Today was almost as surreal as the day I lost my current keys and then found the keys I'd been missing for five months, but not quite. Today was perhaps as stressful as that day was bizarre. This first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was my fish Bubbles, lying rather lopsided on the bottom of his tank. He wasn't dead, but he also wasn't really ( Read more... )

I got a fish! I'm not entirely sure why, but it seemed like a really good idea at the time. And it still does. I got really excited about the idea when someone read the message on the underside of the lid to their drink and it said that if you keep a goldfish in a dark room for a long enough period of time it will turn white. Naturally I wanted ( Read more... )

...but who dedicates a book called "Introduction to Error Analysis" to his WIFE?!?! "Honey, you're so wonderful that I wanted to immortalize my love for you by declaring it in the front of a book read by physics students everywhere. You are as sweet as the uncertainties in two measurements of different quantities when correctly recorded to only ( Read more... )

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