Brad Froehle

Putnam

I got the results from the William Lowell Putnam Competition I took back on December 6. I blogged my initial thoughts after the test and predicted a score somewhere in the 20’s.
I’m happy to announce that I outdid myself, scoring a 30.3 (out of 120 possible points). This puts me at 200th [...]

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Free Cone Day

Just a reminder that tomorrow is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s.
I hope y’all enjoy your free ice cream!

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Tilt. Twist. Redeem.

I mentioned this before in one of my Link Dumps but I had to bring it up again.
I mean, how cool is this:

A guy went and spent a good portion of his $2500 meal plan on bottles of Pepsi just for the free songs that Apple was giving away in their Pepsi iTunes Music Giveaway.
It’s [...]

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Star Wars Kid Meets Bill

In one of the funnier remakes of the Star Wars Kid video, somebody merged the footage with scenes from Kill Bill (vol 1 and 2).

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Pharmacology

The Department of Pharmacology here at the U of M is offering a new course next fall called Mechanisms of Drug Action. I’ll have to admit the topic fascinates me and I’m really thinking about signing up for the class. It meets for 1 hour twice a week, which is very manageable. [...]

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iChat Slowness

I can’t figure out why iChat is so slow nowadays. The window is unresponsive and takes a couple of seconds to do anything like scrolling or focusing the window. This is unacceptable to me. I’ve tried rebooting with no avail. It might be because I have a large number of contacts, [...]

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Orkut Geomap

I while back I wrote about a new website called Orkut created by some Google employees that aims to be a social service allowing you to list your contacts and create a web of people you know and their contacts.
Anyway, I’ve got about 20 friends signed up with the service right now. Yesterday I [...]

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Squirrel Fishing

Leave it to Nick Stein to do crazy things like go Squirrel Fishing. As I understand, the concept is to bait the squirrel with a peanut tied to the end of a string, and then reel the squirrel in as if you were fishing. It’s quite bizarre and probably only works on the [...]

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Audioscrobbler

I signed up for Audioscrobbler, a free service that records the songs you play and then keeps track of statistics and suggests other good songs.

Songs I’ve Recently Listened To:
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Yahoo! Search

One has to wonder how my site shows up as the number two result when searching for UConn Riots 2004.
Interesting searches people have used to find my site:

UConn Riots 2004
How to Fold a Shirt
Shirt Folding
UConn Riots
Euphonium Pictures Labeled
U-DFL
Pictures of Lindsay Whalen
Amanda Frosch

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