I just have to temporarily rant here for a moment about credit card fraud ( Read more... )

Just wanted to share a bit from an article I was reading at www.cracked.com about a bunch of words/phrases that came from Shakespeare but you'd never guess it:

Phrase:
The Game is Afoot

Where We'd Be Without It:
Reading the less-than-gripping adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his signature catchphrase, "My dear Watson, I do believe this shit is bananas ( Read more... )

STRIKE CALLED FOR WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10

Dear Members,

The Bargaining Team voted unanimously this evening to call an unfair labor practice strike at CSU.  The strike will begin at 7 AM, Wednesday, December 10.  CSU’s continued unlawful practices have prevented UAW and CSU from reaching agreement on a new contract.  The goal of the strike is to ( Read more... )

A song just came on that I used to use as my wakeup alarm in the dorms freshman year. Hearing it brings the memories back like it was yesterday! I can picture standing in my dorm room, looking out the window, and it's rainy outside (I must have used it in the winter). I stopped using songs to wake me up because I would start to HATE them since I  ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow is the big day! Well, today was the big day for ME, the big 2-4, but tomorrow is the big day for the country! I am really excited because I am SO sure Obama is going to win. I'm going with Abbie and her boyfriend to an election night celebration down the street which is going to be so much fun... watching the results on a big screen, free ( Read more... )

My main challenge this semester is finishing my theoretical physics homework on time and doing it as well as possible. In order to achieve both of these goals, I SHOULD start it early, like, the day the previous homework was due. But I don't do that because I have other homework for other classes as well. I should start the homework two days after ( Read more... )

I am drowning in theoretical physics homework, and I just looked up something on Wikipedia because I thought I might be doing it wrong. I'm working on complex Fourier series. So I look up "complex fourier" thinking that would be sufficient. Nothing matches, but the first suggested possible match was "fourier complex" so I thought that might be it. ( Read more... )

My Obama pumpkin is already molding! Bleh! I put it on the fire escape landing outside my window so that it can get as much preservation from the night cold as possible, and also to keep it from being an indoor fly magnet (even more bleh). I'm sad that it's going so quickly, I mean it's Monday and I carved it Saturday! I'm afraid some of the odd ( Read more... )

Check out my amazing pumpkin carving skills!


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