Random Raves XIX: My nipples explode with delight!

[ZeletDude]

It's snowing

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Other than my emotional breakdown, I had a fun night tonight. Had birthday dinner with family at TGI Fridays, and watched two star trek voyager episodes with my friend, who was nice enough to help my through my breakdown when I had it.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Madviking's timetable certainly puts mine to shame;

Tuesday 2-4pm: Seminar, The International Economy 1850 -1946 (3pm if the seminar tutor's had enough)
Wednesday 10-11 Lecture; Historical Reflections
Friday 11-1 Seminar: Modern European Political Thought (The 11-1 is interrupted at about 12 as the tutor has a cigarette break...)



Oh yeah, the rave: I've now set my phone ringtone to the Drowning music from Sonic 1; I'll never miss a call again...

 

[Kennigit]

key:
apma 2130 = differential equations
ece 2066 = science of information
che 2202 = thermodynamics
sts 1500 = english class for engineers
phil 1470 = issues of life and death
phys 1429 = physics lab

why does uva use such bad acronyms? WTH is apma and ece (presumably ece is electrical and comp, so what is "science of information" supposed to mean?). And sts? so weird.

I guess my rave is that my university registrar isn't uva . And that I totally failed basic math--adding and subtracting level of math as I did row reductions--on a quiz today, but that's okay since lowest quiz grade gets dropped (this was our last quiz).

 

[madviking]

why does uva use such bad acronyms? WTH is apma and ece (presumably ece is electrical and comp, so what is "science of information" supposed to mean?). And sts? so weird.

I guess my rave is that my university registrar isn't uva . And that I totally failed basic math--adding and subtracting level of math as I did row reductions--on a quiz today, but that's okay since lowest quiz grade gets dropped (this was our last quiz).

apma = applied math
ece = electrical and computer engineering
sts = science, technology, and society

Science of Information:

 

[Kennigit]

yeah silly of me to not realise applied maths. also thanks

 

[_random_]

So yesterday night, I didn't do my Bible homework, I read the wrong chapters in Numbers, and I totally BS'd my Latin workbook. In Bible, the teacher forgot to give us a quiz and decided not to collect homework until next week, and in Latin we never got around to going over the workbook. I'm pretty sure God's looking out for me. Alternatively, the school faculty monitors my every move and decides not to do things for which I'm inadequately prepared. I'm pretty stoked either way.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

My first Model UN experience at the University of Dayton was really fun today! Plus, around 30 other kids from my school went as well.

 

[_random_]

You were in Dayton? We should have met up man.

 

[LegionSteve]

just got back from watching Motorhead live in nottingham

totally awesome as usual

work tomorrow is going to be fun, we have a meeting at 11:00 which will mostly consist of me and my friend (who went to the show) shouting WHAT? WHAT? across the room at each other. should get most of my hearing back by Sunday lol

 

[madviking]

This is amazing.

 

[Skwink]

I almost can start listening to Bob Dylan's Christmas music!

 

[Dumanios]

I got bored and poked all of my Facebook friends.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My new magazine scan came out very nicely. Of course, it was a big help that it was small enough to fit on the flatbed.

 

[ZeletDude]

My friend was really sad and I helped cheer her up, I feel like I'm useful now

 

[DroopyTofu]

I just turned in my research paper. So much weight off my shoulders now. Atleast until I have to do an oral presentation after Thanksgiving Break. But I'm done for the time being!

 

[Dachs]

I was recently rereading Echevarria's After Clausewitz, a book on pre-WWI European tactics, and saw this gem:

Like Langlois, [German General Heinrich von] Rohne maintained that the artillery duel would rarely prove decisive, particularly with the use of weapon shields and the adoption of the principle of firing from covered positions. Nonetheless, he did not advocate abandoning the duel. "A very great advantage is obtained in silencing the hostile artillery, even for a few moments." He pointed out that the French artillery regulations made it the "first duty of the artillery to crush the hostile guns in as short a time as possible" and to continue searching for other guns that had not yet entered the fight. He explained that the French practice differed from the German, in that the former used only as many guns as necessary to achieve the desired effect, whereas the latter "attached a particular importance to productions of a /mass effect/," not by massing guns but by massing rounds on the target. German doctrine, therefore, emphasized destroying the target rather than suppressing it. The idea of mass effect took into account the greater survivability of modern guns equipped with shields and probably occupying covered positions. The French, in contrast, seemed to believe that the enhanced effectiveness of modern artillery fire would suffice to neutralize the target. If not, it would at least suppress the hostile guns enough to facilitate the forward movement of the infantry, which would eventually force the opponent's artillery to move, thereby making it easier to destroy.

 

[aelf]

Distinction for Masters, hell yeah! Now I don't care if I'm jobless for a while anymore

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Got an imposing black walking boot. Only a few weeks now from being able to walk normally once more.

 

[Ajidica]

So yesterday night, I didn't do my Bible homework, I read the wrong chapters in Numbers, and I totally BS'd my Latin workbook. In Bible, the teacher forgot to give us a quiz and decided not to collect homework until next week, and in Latin we never got around to going over the workbook. I'm pretty sure God's looking out for me. Alternatively, the school faculty monitors my every move and decides not to do things for which I'm inadequately prepared. I'm pretty stoked either way.

Other option: Satan, seeing your problems, decieved the faculty knowing that you would praise accidentaly praise Satan, thinking you were praising God for your deliverance.

No need to thank me, it is all in a day's work as an internet excorcist.