So, I just finished the last final, the last projects are behind me, and everything is all done. I'm finally finished with school. All done and graduated. Woo ( Read more... )

So, a high school in Mississippi canceled their prom because a girl wanted to bring her girlfriend, and wear a tux. Seriously ( Read more... )

High school should not be the best days of your life. I'm not sure if it reflects worse on the person or society if high school is really the peak of many people's lives.

Hey. Yeah, it's been a while. Bit of dust on this old place. Well, old in internet age, this LJ'll be five and a half in... Huh. The archive says the first post was in May, 2004, but I KNOW there were earlier ones, saying stuff like "This is just here for me to watch other people's LJs" and we know how that turned out. So, about five and a ( Read more... )

Okay, here's a mat puzzle for you, folks. I'm trying to create a 3d angled sloped wedge. With for loops, on a 3d X,Y,H grid ( Read more... )

Okay, so this one program I'm using for this research project?

It's written in FORTRAN.

Seriously.

I wish I'd been this excited about looking at colleges and going to college a decade ago, when I was doing it the first time.

But then I didn't know what I wanted, and hadn't found something I was excited about that I thought could make a difference.

From Slacktivist, in a post about some Southern Baptists trying to pull their kids out of public schools in a big group, a quote that expresses things quite well ( Read more... )

But fucking expensive. How the crap are school books $160?! Okay, I know part of how, low print runs, printing's expensive, multiple authors to pay, and locked in inflexible demand they can charge whatever the fuck they want to for them. But seriously. A hundred and sixty fucking dollars ( Read more... )

I'd TOTALLY be sloth. Man. I've kept putting off writing a possible intro for this speech we have to give in my stupid speech class for all of the last week. I mean, I can probably whip up something decent in just a few minutes, but I'd rather have something GOOD, not just decent. I find it hard to be motivated about this class though. ( Read more... )