Origin XT Blog

PD found it somewhere, and I guess I’ll just post them here since (obviously) members on Origin know very little about me.

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Thanks.

02/28 20:02:29 Joey: to receive merely means not leaving
02/28 20:03:02 Me: oh that reminds me
02/28 20:03:14 Me: It’s very rude to leave without notifying me. Like with a bye or something
Right when I lecture you on how rude you are, you leave. I don’t appreciate that!

So, was that intentional (to make a point or to piss me off), disconnect, or just like normal?

Anyway, another chat log:

02/28 22:32:45 Me: Say something interesting!
02/28 22:32:46 Me: 02/28 22:33:04 Katherine: sex

In theory or practice?

Hello, Mr. Bernstein;

I am a junior at Leland High School in San Jose, and am doing research for my United States History AP Project. While researching my topic of “Local Reaction to Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” where “Local” is defined as within the premises of our state California, I have come across many of your wonderful works, including numerous scholarly journals, books, and articles on the issue. The one I am currently examining is “Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: …”

The comprehensive analyses of the thoughts and opinions of various people in this work alone provides me with invaluable information on my research topic. However, much of the contributions to the work are by those not residing in California. By combing through various other sources at my local library (San Jose State University’s Martin Luther King Junior Library), I was able to obtain several books and articles documenting the lives and thoughts of the survivors of the bombings living in California, though that is not enough.

The difficulty is this; I am not able to determine from your works a definite and clear demonstration of your opinions, which would contribute greatly to my research. Do you have any works in which you explicitly or subtly express your own opinions on the only
two deployments of the fission bombs? Do you know anyone else in California who would gladly share their personal opinions and reactions to the atomic bombings?

Your assistance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for all your brilliant works in this field, and thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Jinghao Yan
Leland High School

Hmm, was I right to use “Mr” instead of “Professor”? I thought Mr. was more suiting because he wasn’t my professor.

Scrutinize it all you want, Joey. I’m excited.

Jinghao:

Parallelism with three “l”s was not a pun–it came from illness. Joey is weird. I will watch him more closely. Thank you for the warning.

Ms. Jankowski

What are you going to do, Joey? Sue me if you don’t get an A in English?

Manzhuguo (Manchuria in English) was the richest region in China in 1900. Now, in 2006, it is the poorest region after Tibet. The only significant event that happened in the area that could have affected this continuity was the Japanese invasion and occupation before and during World War 2.

I was born in the region; my parents were born in the region; my grandparents were born in the region. They also were living during the time of the Japanese occupation. They attended schools run by Japanese teachers, forbidden from speaking Chinese; they worked in factories run by Japanese capitalists, forbidden from keeping any profits. Isn’t it obvious that the occupation, ravaging, and exploitation by the Japanese were what caused the most detrimental effect on the region in the Northeastern portion of China that pulled it form the richest region to the poorest?

I loathe the shift.

Whohoo, I’m going to hell!

I was browsing a web-forum, not Origin, (you’ll see why later on) and reading the members’ comments about sForge (sourcecode distribution network). I noticed that they, like many other internet users, lack a comprehensive grasp of English, in regards to grammar and spelling.

And immediately after, I saw the Google AdSense ad on the right. Guess what it said? “English Grammar: Need help on developing your english grammar? Hone your english skills now!”

Wow, even Google recognizes the miserable failures these people are.

Jim and I were listening to it at school during 6th period (Please, don’t ask…), and I noticed the unclean lyrics. Jim thought I was hallucinating, so I Yahoo’d it for him (Google somehow doesn’t work in the mac lab; typing google.com results in yahoo.com strangely) Anyway, here’s what I found on CNN.com:

(CNN) – The following are the complete lyrics to the song “Barbie Girl.”

Hi Barbie!

Hi Ken!

You wanna go for a ride?

Sure, Ken!

Jump in!

Ha ha ha ha!

I’m a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let’s go party

I’m a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

I’m a blonde single girl in the fantasy world

Dress me up, take your time, I’m your doll

You’re my doll, rock and roll, feel the glamour and pain

Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky

You can touch, you can play

You can say I’m always yours, oooh whoa

I’m a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let’s go party, ha ha ha, yeah (4 TIMES)

Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please

I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees

Come jump in, be my friend, let us do it again

Hit the town, fool around, let’s go party

You can touch, you can play

You can say I’m always yours

You can touch, you can play

You can say I’m always yours

Come on, Barbie, let’s go party, ha ha ha, yeah (4 TIMES)

I’m a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

I’m a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let’s go party, ha ha ha, yeah (four times)

Oh, I’m having so much fun!

Well, Barbie, we’re just getting started!

Oh, I love you Ken!

Essentially, Jim and I working together (Right…) determined that the above bolded lines all have sexual connotations within But Jim suggested that “plastic” may too, which I said was stupid. But then again…

la·tex [láy tèks] (plural la·ti·ces [láyti s?z] or la·tex·es) noun

mixture of plastic particles in water: a suspension of rubber or plastic (polymer) particles in water, used to make emulsion paints, adhesives, and other products

Encarta® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1999,2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Maybe MS dictionary confirmed what Jim said o_O Maybe … oh nevermind.

Indecent songs in such an innocent voice.

Woo lets his students cheat so blatantly it’s not even funny. We took the chapter test today, and I saw the four people in front of my table (I won’t state last names, but, they were Justin, Jeffrey, Joyce and Tiffany (damn it, you ruined the three J sequence!)) discussing answers before they turned in the test. And all the while, Woo was standing by and watching. I swear, Woo’ll go ballistic one day and give them all a cheating file.

I’m not sure if I’m worried that Woo feels disappointed, or that they’ll get a cheating file; that won’t be good. Generally, I’ve known all four of them to be pretty smart people. I don’t know why they would resort to such methods of cheating. It won’t work for the AP test.

Anyone want to engage in an activity to acquire hands-on experience of the mechanics of bonding? When certain bonds form, they normally form in closest-packing structure, with hopefully as much open spaces (interstitial spaces) filled as possible. By the way, each of the subjects of bonds I’m talkin’ about make six bonds each, with each direction of a cube in the case of simple-cubic structure; there’s also face-centered and body-centered structure that’ll get at max twelve bonds per “subject”

Ionic bonds