I just dropped Sabre Fencing (sorry Mary!) and added a Pharmacology class to my schedule next fall.
Benefits include an extra credit and not having to go to class. The main negative will be homework, exams, and not a guaranteed A.
I really hope I like the class. It looks very interesting, as I’ve always wondered about how drugs interact in the body. (Maybe I’d enjoy pharmacology more than say going to medical school?… here’s my chance to find out).
Everybody’s favorite Maddox takes an interesting stance on abortion and the political system in one of his latest posts:
Looking for a safe stance on abortion? Me neither.
I’m tired of political candidates pussy-footing delicately around the issue of abortion. Every time I turn on the TV, there’s always some group of hippies protesting “for choice” or “for life.” Each group pisses the other off, and no candidate will take a strong enough stance on the issue of abortion, so I’ve decided to form a political party of my own:
The Regressive Party
I have a different stance on abortion: I’m against abortion, but for killing babies. That way everyone loses, and I win. I’m neither pro choice, nor pro life; I’m pro you-shutting-the-hell-up.
??Via: Maddox??
Personally I’m pro-choice but abortion is a woman thing and I don’t really shouldn’t have any say in the whole affair.
A neat trick in iTunes 4.5 that changes the little arrows next to each artist/album/title to search your library for that string instead of the iTunes Music Store.
Pop open terminal and input this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
??Via: Justin Williams??
I stumbled across Tontie a few weeks ago. Let me tell you it is one addictive flash game. The general premise is that you use the numberpad to in a “Whack-a-mole” fashion, however it rapidly gets much harder than that. I never got past level 8 or so, although Dave managed to get to Level 11 a couple of times.
Daniel Vine came up with a remote browser-testing service so that those of us without Windows PC’s can test to make sure our websites look ok.
I checked this webpage out and while it’s not necessarily the prettiest thing (I forgot how horrible font handling was in Internet Explorer), it at least works.
Update: I just found out that this is the same guy who made the ever-so-cool iCapture, a similar program that shows how webpages look under Mac browsers.
Brad Choate opened up his Applications Folder showing the world what apps he uses on a regular basis.
I thought I’d just append a couple to the list:
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.
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.
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.
Brad Froehle 