Author Archives: Bradley Froehle

QotD: Card Games

Question: What are your favorite card games?

I like Bridge and 500. I’m a fan of games that require thought over fast action (ie: Rat Screw, Spoons, etc).

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QotD: Haircut

Question: How much do you pay for a haircut?

$15 tops. I usually hit up one of those bargain places (Great Clips, Fantastic Sam’s, etc) when they have a good coupon. My hair is pretty low-maintenance anyway… just use the shaver thing on the back/sides and a little cutting on top.

I’ve had my mother cut my hair, but that’s not really worth the effort it takes to have her to a good enough job.

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QotD: Email

Question: What email client do you use?

I use Mail.app that comes with Mac OS X. It works decently enough, handles the two thousand plus emails I have stored. The junk mail handling doesn’t work all to well, but I don’t get much junk mail so it’s not really a problem.

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Sweet Sixteen

I’m headed to Norfolk, VA this weekend to see the Gopher Girls Basketball win the next two games.

Ooh, it’ll be fun!

Although at the moment it looks like I might have to take one of my midterms at 7am on Friday. Here’s to hoping that instead the departure time is later and I can take it at noon like everybody else in my class.

Gopher Women’s Basketball

Well, it has become obvious that I picked the wrong pepband to be in, as the Women’s BBall team just beat the 2 seed Kansas State to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. As I recall, all of the women’s events (that have pepbands—volleyball, hockey, basketball) have now seen post-season play. Contrast this to the men’s basketball team, with our 10th in the Big Ten ranking.

Maybe it’s a good thing I did BB Band because I’d be too busy with trips with all of the WAB events.

QotD: Smoke

Question: How many cigarettes have you smoked?

None. And I never will. Smoking is gross and I wish people would stop. It only kills you.

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Drinking Fountain

They finally fixed the drinking fountain on our floor. About time, it had been out of service now for 2-3 weeks after it had somehow managed to get stuck in the “on” position. And, we get a bright shiny new drinking fountain, straight out of the cardboard box. New! I can’t believe it. I thought the people running the reshalls were a bunch of cheapos.

QotD: Syrup

Question: What is your favorite kind of syrup?

My Answer: I like maple syrup the most. I’m not a fan of the berry-ish syrups at all.

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Mitcho

Mitcho (aka Michael Erlewine) is in town and it sounds like we’ll be meeting for lunch tomorrow. It should be fun. More hot chinese food to burn my tongue with. And a good amount of math discussion.

And Thus Concludes Spring Break

All good things must come to an end. And thus concludes spring break. On the whole it went fast…. way too fast. I ended up working a good 40-ish hours at Walgreens—enough to make some spending money.

I’ve got the joy of three midterms this week. The first is in Physics Lab—it should be mostly on probability and statistics. Topics include mean, standard deviation, deviance, uncertainty calculations, Gaussian and Poisson distributions, and other counting statistics.

Wednesday brings a midterm in my Algebra class. It shouldn’t be too hard, although I’m sure to have forgotten all of the subject matter of break. Something with Rings and Ideals and other complex/useless stuff. Or if it has a use, it has eluded me thus-far.

Friday brings a midterm in Quantum Mechanics. And by midterm, I mean midterm since this is the only class that has only one midterm. I’ll have to go relearn particle/wave duality, and the Schrödinger equation. After that we covered Fourier transforms and wavepackets. A few hours of studying should bring most of it back to current memory.