Archive for November, 2008
Next Semester’s (Potential) Schedule
| M | T | W | R | F | ||
| 8:00am: | NES 1202 Discussion 201 | NES 1202 Discussion 201 | NES 1202 Discussion 201 | NES 1202 Discussion 201 | ||
| 9:00am: | ||||||
| MATH 2210 Lecture 1 | MATH 2210 Lecture 1 | MATH 2210 Lecture 1 | ||||
| 10:00am: | ||||||
| PHYS 1116 Lecture 1 | PHYS 1116 Lecture 1 | PHYS 1116 Lecture 1 | ||||
| 11:00am: | ||||||
| LING 1100 Seminar 105 | PHYS 1116 Discussion 202 | LING 1100 Seminar 105 | PHYS 1116 Discussion 202 | LING 1100 Seminar 105 | ||
| 12:00pm: | ||||||
| MATH 2220 Lecture 3 | NES 1202 Lecture 2 | MATH 2220 Lecture 3 | PHYS 1116 Laboratory 401 | MATH 2220 Lecture 3 | ||
| 1:00pm: | ||||||
| MATH 2210 Discussion 201 | ||||||
| 2:00pm: | ||||||
| MATH 2220 Discussion 202 | ||||||
| 3:00pm: | ||||||
| Course | Name | Credits |
| LING 1100 | Fws: Language, Thought, And Reality | 3.0 |
| MATH 2210 | Linear Algebra | 4.0 |
| MATH 2220 | Multivariable Calculus | 4.0 |
| NES 1202 | Elementary Arabic II | 4.0 |
| PHYS 1116 | Physics I: Mechanics And Special Relativity | 4.0 |
| Total Credits: | 19 | |
Even if I didn’t sign up for Linear Algebra (the course I’m least committed to taking), it doesn’t really improve things. It’d just leave big gaps in the middle of my schedule.
As is, Wednesdays look really fun, though…
Weee!
(by Schedulizer)
Sweden’s Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center
Brilliant. Scary, but Brilliant.
A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence:
It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.
Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.
Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.
That must’ve been a lot of fun to pull off, but the fact that they got away with it to such a large extent is a little frightening. Which news do we believe is true, and which do we believe is a hoax yet to be revealed?
Some Photos
A cell phone is a poor substitute for a camera, but it’s all I’ve got right now.
Colorful
Resplendent iridescent fluorescent.
Nope, no reason.
Biology 1105
I don’t like lab reports. Especially when I thought I followed the lab report guidelines to the letter, and I received a 47 (yes, 47%). Especially when my rewrite, which was OK’d by the TA I talked with, only merited a 58. Especially when corrections receive a 20% reduction, and 0.8 * 58 is 46.
So by putting several afternoons into rewriting my lab report, I lost myself one point.
Oh well, next one’s due Friday! *grin*
Obama
It’s louder than a drunken weekend night here. Hordes of people running around the campus screaming and yelling “OBAMAAAAAAA!” It feels like we’re part of a revolution.
Totally Different Level of Problem
This is what we have to worry about in the US:
Almost always [in his map predictions], Mr. Downs, 53, ends with Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, ahead, which should please this confirmed liberal and profound Obama fan. But just as often he feels worried.
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,” Mr. Downs said. “The only thing worse than losing is to think that you’re going to win and then lose.”
He considers that prospect and mutters, almost involuntarily, “Oh, God.”
And this is what they have to worry about in Pakistan:
On a rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan’s lawless tribal region.
The militants tied up eight policemen and lay them on the floor, and according to local accounts, the youngest member of the gang, a 14-year-old, shot the captives on orders from his boss. The fighters stole uniforms and weapons and fled into the mountains.
Almost instantly, the people of Buner, armed with rifles, daggers and pistols, formed a posse, and after five days they cornered and killed their quarry. A video made on a cellphone showed the six militants lying in the dirt, blood oozing from their wounds.
That is such a different level of problem. Why do we get so worked up here? No lives are at stake. I mean, in a indirect way, because of policies, but not like that. We talk about our country being on the wrong track, or economically disintegrating, or whatever. We have food and warmth. Most of us have a home. We’re safe in our beds.
We have no right to complain.