Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our next Olympic sport!

Right along-side extreme-ironing.

They really need to have students present when they produce these math books for schools, there are hardly enough examples in each section's test to be able to complete all the work in the section!

Right now I'm having trouble with this problem:
Use the method of cylindrical shells to find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4iI59BfpQ

I just thought I'd share this with you, in case you'd never seen it before. =)

So yesterday I had a fairly fun outing of airsofting with the usual posse. If there's anything I've learned from that day it's that I should be somewhat more comfortable with my abilities to climb up and down things, but I think I also need to get used to jumping down off of higher-set surfaces, especially if I'm even thinking of free-running/ ( Read more... )

There's a line from this book my Dad had lent to me for reading, called Deep Survival, it's a very interesting book that talks about people getting into survival situations (usually involving climbing, camping, hiking, and other such outdoor activities) and what kinds of things lead them to death, or survival. It also goes into some of the ( Read more... )

So today I've mostly been doing a lot of cleaning around the house; vacuuming, dusting, scrubbing, etc. My Dad volunteered to host our gathering for christmas at our place, so we've spruced it up a little bit ( Read more... )

So I've just about recovered from my illness, so when I find the time I'm going to go back and overhaul my update about Japan.

But until then, it's catching up on homework and quizzes, and getting ready for finals.

And I didn't realize I set so many people back with the moving situation Ben, I'm really sorry. X_x

Okay, I'm about to go and try to turn my origin of the sun entry into a short novel ( Read more... )

So I'm back from Japan...it seems things are a bit of a mess (including myself). I've returned with an irritating cold, as well as a few other surprises ( Read more... )

Damn, I don't update often enough, I think ( Read more... )