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Mr. Woo gives out handouts he obtains from other high-schools for our AP chem class. I bet he doesn’t even read them. It’s so obnoxious. Here’s a quote, direct:

… chaos theory in Jurassic Park was about. The park owner jackass-richguy thought he could control all of the variables in his system. He just operated on the minimization of energy principle and ignored nature’s other side. So a guy wrote an allegorical book about how nature will bite you in the ass when you do this and Steven Speilberg made dinosaurs to get the job done. Anyway, as I said, you’ll just touch on thermo here but it has crunchier roots than most science

First of all, formal handouts describing thermodynamics shouldn’t be using terms like “jackass-richguy,” “bite you in the ass,” etc. And there are so many grammar mistakes too.

Read the intro: “Okay, thermodynamics is actually a really interesting subject and there are a lot of people who just do thermo, it’s a a big deal in science and enggineering” (typos, etc recreated) “Thermo comes close to describing how nature works, at least macroscopically, although there are other methods of thermo-heat production…”

Wtf?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was a dream come true for Marshmallow and Yam, two lucky turkeys from Henning, Minnesota.

President George W. Bush on Tuesday spared them from being served for Thanksgiving dinner and, to top it off, sent the pair on an all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland.

I like how our federal money is being spent.

Woman Plans to Marry Man Who Shot Her

Tue Nov 15, 4:54 PM ET - SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A woman said she still plans to marry the man who shot her in the groin and then held her hostage in his family’s garage for six days.

Tina Marie Stebbins revealed her intentions in a letter released Monday as her boyfriend, Christian Leroy Lindblad, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting her in June 2002.

Check it out, it’s in California. I should just go up to some girl and use the above as the prelude to “So, if I do the same, will you marry me?” I wonder what the result would be
Marriage is permitted in Florida as long as you and your partner is 16. That law is waived if the female applying for marriage is pregnant. Florida has lots of old people… Is it just me or do I see a plan in allowing this?

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Love cows? Love math? Love math-cows?

Your Brain is 40.00% Female, 60.00% Male

You have a total boy brain
Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts
And while your emotions do sway you sometimes…
You never like to get feelings too involved

Total boy brain? I’m 2/5th female?!

I disappoint myself. I guess it’s my own fault for not utilizing the 7 hours of free time I had yesterday effectively. I got home at 3 PM, and had no homework due the next day. But instead of studying for the history midterm, as I should have, I was playing games and chatting on AIM (among other stupid activities that wasted tons of time). God damn, I had SEVEN HOURS!!! I could have re-read both GD and RA with all that time. But nooo, instead of doing that I just slacked off and engaged in unproductive activity which I could’ve left for today.

Damn, why do I always do this? I used to do fine with this tactic. 97%, 93%… but I guess I slacked off too much, and got myself a B (Not even a B+!) This B dropped my grade 1% in history to a 91%, which is very dangerous, considering I pretty much failed my project A.

I guess this time it was because I didn’t pay as much attention to lectures. I can’t assign this failure to any other reason, as this time, and I do emphasize that, I was outdone by (I think) four people in MY OWN CLASSROOM! The fact that Holmes sucks cannot account for all this. That discrepancy must have been at my own fault.

I always place dots (dogs) next to questions I’m not sure about. I happened to narrow all those to two choices. I didn’t do the essay so I went back and checked all my dotted questions like 5 times. I made no changes whatsoever, because I was afraid I’d fall into my old trap of convincing myself out of a right answer.

But to my dismay, I missed 17 questions, not just the 10 I anticipated from the number of dots I made. That means I suck at guessing at the last two choices, and I made many more mistakes than I originally anticipated. Damn me.

Now that I’m done with the rambling, I’d like to convince myself that I will take lecture notes I can understand starting Lecture 22. I will not be distracted by people sitting diagonally of me (Specifically left-front)… I will not be distracted by daydreams about spheres and cylinders and other things I was doing in math… >_>

Anyway, I suck. I just need to convince other people. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

While we’re studying for the history midterm, how about we review the facts of our founding fathers? NYT tells it all!

The idea that private sexual misconduct is beside the point for an elected official goes way back to the founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton famously, and rather hysterically, published a pamphlet detailing his affair with a married woman named Maria Reynolds. He wanted to make it clear that the mysterious payments he had been making to Mr. Reynolds were not part of an embezzlement scheme, but simply a result of good old all-American blackmail. The delegation of congressmen who had been assigned to investigate Hamilton’s financial transactions regarded this as way too much information.

The Maria Reynolds affair did produce an outcry among Hamilton’s political opponents - one newspaper thundered that “even the frosts of America are incapable of cooling your blood and the eternal snow of Nova Zembla would hardly reduce you to common propriety,” which perhaps goes to show that they don’t make editorial page editors like they used to. But Hamilton shared the standards of his political peers when it came to morality - if not discretion. And the public went on to elect Thomas Jefferson as president, despite the tavern songs about his relationship with the slave “Monticello Sally” Hemings, and to fall madly in love with Andrew Jackson, who they very well knew had lived with his wife, Rachel, when she was still married to another man.

Hamilton’s my hero

I like the background he has.

I was curious to know what type of questions I missed on the last midterm, so I went and checked with Holmes. She told me to take off my jacket, and that if I were to have any writing utencil out, she would give me a 0/150 on the test. o_O But anyway…

Upon turning over the scantron, I noticed that I missed 1-9 consecutively. I have no idea why. And then the other couple I missed were in the range 10s (10-19). Surprisingly I missed nothing after those…

That’s kind of interesting. If they cut out 1-18 I would have 100%

For $600,000, a 40- to 60-year-old man can buy a house in a trendy Denver neighborhood that comes complete with a bride.

Deborah Hale, 48, has placed an ad on eBay offering to sell her home in the Washington Park area to a compatible man who wants to spend his life with her. She also has her own Web site outlining the deal.

“I’m looking for my soul mate,” Hale told the Rocky Mountain News Tuesday. She did not immediately return a telephone message left at her home Wednesday.

Read the whole thing to get a good laugh at this.