Was surprised to be posting. The mid term was blown out of the water and then laughed at for good measure. I'd just gotten my head around how to rapidly convert from base 10, to Hexadecimal, to binary and any which way between the three.
Very cool! It's always awesome to nail those things.
Right now I'm taking an online college course, and I'm definitely doing better than the class average (I've missed about 4 marks total on all assignments). Of course I'm probably the only person in the class to have taken University-level Probability and Statistics, so when I'm asked "One a six-sided die, what is the odds of rolling a 6 in one roll?" I shake my head and take the mark.
Philip K. Dick described it best with the single word: kipple.
Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up there is twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.
No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot.
Ah, purging. Escaping across the country to get away from my abusive parents at age sixteen kind of did my massive giant purge for me (and earlier than most folks get around to it), and it has constantly amazed me since then just how little of the stuff I used to own was stuff I actually needed, used, or (in the end) even wanted. These days, most of my possessions are counted in clothes and books. The rest is just a computer and a bed and some random dross. It's a good way to be!
Also, we are happy to have you. And if you would like to eventually acquire some shelving for the main room and make use of it, you're welcome to! We have wallspace in here that isn't being used.
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Right now I'm taking an online college course, and I'm definitely doing better than the class average (I've missed about 4 marks total on all assignments). Of course I'm probably the only person in the class to have taken University-level Probability and Statistics, so when I'm asked "One a six-sided die, what is the odds of rolling a 6 in one roll?" I shake my head and take the mark.
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Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up there is twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.
No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot.
conquer all.
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While Philip is normally spot on, he perhaps did not take into account my 'enthusiastic' use of fire. But we shall see.
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Also, we are happy to have you. And if you would like to eventually acquire some shelving for the main room and make use of it, you're welcome to! We have wallspace in here that isn't being used.
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