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Movin’ Out

Went and picked up Peter’s Palm from the DHL center. Long story short, DHL couldn’t locate the address and instead of waiting for Monday, I opted to pick it up on Saturday. And yes, it was I that opted to pick up Peter’s Palm. Anyways. Took up a load to Kit’s house. Dad and Brian were there for one of Brian’s meetings. Built a little compost fence for Melissa and started working on the Weber’s computer. Something really got messed up and it will probably need to be reformated. I have soo much crap.

Calc I is Done and Done

Well, I think the saga of Calc I can now finally come to a close. I just finished my final. It went well, despite being at 8 in the Ante meridiem. The cafe also found it within their cold hearts to feed us a cold breakfast.

One down, two to go!

NHV Officially Done After Burning the Midnight Oil

Just pulled an all nighter finishing my NHV paper. That marked the end of my blasted NHV class and while it was fun (at least the non-writing parts), I’m glad to be done with it.

I got up yesterday at about 10:30 am. Took my med at ~noon. I then took them again at about 2 am this morning for today. Hopefully I will be ableto overcome the stimulation provided by the Adderall in the early afternoon.

This would mark the first time I actually stayed awake for 24 continous hours without any naps or such.

Fall 2005 – Schedule 2.0

I dropped Chem II and Quant. Lab on Friday. This changed some of my classes for Fall05 Semester. So here’s what I’ll be doing now:

  • SYGN200 – Human Systems :: Tues/Thurs – 9:30am to 10:45am
  • PHGN100 – Physics I Lecture :: Mon/Weds – 11:00am to 11:50am
  • MACS112 – Calc II :: Mon/Tues/Weds/Fri – 1:00pm to 1:50pm
  • PAGN279 – Handball :: Mon/Weds – 2:00pm to 2:50pm
  • PHGN100 – Physics I Lab :: Tues/Thurs – 2:00pm to 3:50pm
  • CHGN124 – Chem II :: Mon/Weds/Fri – 3:00pm to 3:50pm

I still have to work in a Quant. Lab somewhere, but their classes are clossed (i.e. full). People always drop, so I’ll pick it up in the Fall when I come back

Calc I Test Back

81 on the Calc I test. Average was 70, so I did really well. For the class, I’m aiming to get a high C, which isn’t too bad. At least I know the material this time ’round.

I Love It When People Think I’m Wrong and I’m Not

Every once in a while, some idiot who thinks they know everything questions my authority and is dead wrong. It becomes even more aggravating when said person works under you and despite not know what they’re talking about, they still talk about it anyways. Such is the case of John Bishop (name changed to protect the guilty). My favorite part was when John and his “friends” noted a blatant inaccuracy in your numbers for how many people could listen to the stream at any one time inside the mines network. You stated that the network was more than capable of handling 5000 users at 128kbps. This comes out to 640000kbps, or 640Mbps. This happens to be more than six times the 100Mbps that the Mines LAN runs at, a fact the members of the committee that also work in networking will notice. Even if the LAN is Gigabit this would take a very significant portion of the entire bandwidth available. Just thought we’d point out some problems and technical inaccuracies in the report that was turned into the tech fee committee.”

While the numbers do look like it would be impossible, it is, in fact, not. Due to the miracle of multicasting. Perhaps the best part is that John was at the meeting with Academic Computing and Networking where they specifically brought up the issue of multicasting and I explicitly said, “Yes, we will have multicasting.”

So what does this teach you? Andrew is always right1

  1. execpt when he’s wrong ↩

Top 30 Ways to Know You Go To Mines

  1. Be there or be an equallaterial parellel quadrangle
  2. When talking about their injury, they mention that the coefficient of friction was not great enough
  3. You can carry on a conversation the everybody understands using acronyms such as DSN, JPL, and NASA. That would be Deep Space Network, Jet Propulsion Lab, and National Aeronics and Space Administration
  4. You see somebody wearing the shirt: Top ln(e10) reasons why e is better than π
  5. You see somebody wearing the shirt: I ♥ Nerds
  6. You’ve used the words ‘orientation’, ‘ellipse’ or ‘perimiter’ when describing your dining-room table
  7. You have a close, personal relationship with people you’ve met online
  8. You look forward to Calculus because Physics was so hard. Or vice-versa
  9. The girls actually ARE impressed by a fast computer rather than a fast car
  10. Your idea of a party is six guys sitting around the table drinking beer. Working on CAPA (Computer Aided Personal Assignment)
  11. A REALLY good party is where the ratio of girls to guys approaches 1
  12. You’re definitely a Mines student if you read the above comment and laughed without having to think too hard about it
  13. You laugh at your friends from other school complaining about how difficult College Algebra is
  14. Your favorite pickup lines involve physics or mathematics.
  15. You’ve seldom used those lines because there aren’t enough women
  16. Or, if any of them actually worked, you know you’ve found a Mines woman
  17. When you visit another school, you realize that the real world contains more than 25% females
  18. You can’t spell ‘analysis’ correctly without a dictionary, but you could calculate how much weight the bridge will support
  19. You’ve actually had a serious debate with someone over how you set the controls on your favorite PC game
  20. You’re just waiting to graduate, and then the women will swarm all over you… yeah, that’s it…
  21. You’ve realized that the 4 basic food groups are caffiene, sugar, fat and cafeteria. Under duress.
  22. Classes: Read the notes and book, do some homework, show up for tests.
  23. You hear your roomate mumbling something about Physics in his sleep at 2am, and you realize that he’s got the wrong formula.
  24. Bad things happen if you don’t have access to a spell checker on your reports. Or sometimes, even if you do.
  25. You laugh at people doing 50 page reports on the symbolism of Athena in the Iliad. Or any report over 3 pages in general.
  26. Nighttime and sleep rarely coincide.
  27. Class and sleep often do coincide.
  28. You drink more Mountain Dew daily than water.
  29. You have to chew your coffee in the morning.
  30. You realize in your third year that you should have left in the middle of your first one, but it’s too late now.

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