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Captain Jack is dead. Always one of my favourite artists on DDR, he's the one who has the insanely catchy Dream A Dream song, along with quite a few military inspired ones. I still need to pick up DDR Extreme Dos too.
So mad programmin skillz *CAN* actually impress women. Candice needed a bingo-card making program that would take a list of words and randomly place them on bingo style cards (for a lesson plan for 7th graders). Which is a pretty trival program if you've taken any sort of programming course, but she was sooo impressed I could create something like that from scratch and save her hours of work by not having to do it by hand. Such are the perks of dating a computer nerd. So now she's going to brag to all her education classmates about her boyfriend's uber 133t (though somehow I don't think "uber-133t" will be mentioned exactly) programming skills. Who would have that that would have ever been possible? There's hope for computer nerds everywhere :)
Ever wonder what a periwinkle ribbon stood for? wonder no more, here's a color code list of ribbons for all kinds of causes.
And in yet another blow to science, Kansas decided it's ok to just make stuff up and throw it into a science curriculum. Apparently it's just a small insignificant detail that intelligent design is in no way related science or scientific theory. It's distracting from the entire point of science education. It's not so that you'll know the parts of an atom even when you're 70 years old (though I do personally think it's good to have a general grasp of how our world works as just being an education person in society). The important purpose of science cirriculum is to teach you to think. To not just make stuff up to fill any holes or ignore any facts, but to take what you are given and deduce things logically from that. It's an important life skill that far too many people lack (see Homeopathy for example). It basically builds common sense. Something the ID proponents sorely lack.
I'm going to reiterate that grad school is really hard. That is all.
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