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 place nationally, which I’m happy with for my Freshman year. Next year I’ll have to work on getting a little higher up on the charts.
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s.
I hope y’all enjoy your free ice cream!
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 too bad that he didn’t drink any of the Pepsi either. I’d at least go for the Diet—it’s definitely drinkable.
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).
Via: Boing Boing
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. However, it would be at the same time as Sabre Fencing (so I’d have to drop that one). That wouldn’t be the end of the world because I’ll still have Ballroom Dance (maybe Fencing wasn’t for me anyway).
I don’t quite meet the prereqs for the class (Biology/Biochemistry classes), but I’ve had Organic Chemistry II which they said would be sufficient for understanding what was going on. The class looks like it will be pretty small as well—maybe 20 students.
If nothing else, it might spur an interest for me to consider medical school again—something my parents have been pushing for but I’ve been rejecting.
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, but even so this is unacceptable given that I own a top of the line PowerMac.
Does anybody have any idea, or will I be forced to switch to Adium which is looking quite stable and feature rich at the moment.
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 came across a website that would create a visual map of your contacts by locations and their friends.
If you want to see your locality added to the map (ie, sign up for the website and add me as a friend) please send me an email and I’ll send you an invitation. (Just a note, the site is invitation only so the only way you can get yourself added is by having a current member invite you).
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 ultra-tame squirrels we have here at the U of M.
Honestly, it reminds me of those times at camp that we baited squirrels with peanut butter and captured them under plastic wash bins. It was quite amusing. Apparently some of the others transfered the squirrels into plastic garbage bags and hauled them out to the lake and dumped them in the water.
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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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:
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