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Name: Kirby
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: El Paso
Gender: Male
Interests: Math, trumpet, jazz, band/baroque/classical/romantic/modern classical music, random history, math (number theory), physics, engineering, other sciences, Star Wars, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, reading, Boy Scouts
Expertise: 3.14159265358979323846.... I know all those digits by heart!, working my tail off , math/music/pencil history (the pencil thing is true!) and skills, playing trumpet, bugle, hosaphone, etc., etc., etc.......
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/17/2005
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| Number of Bags folded: 98
Going to sleep.
Haley helped, bags folded by her: 5 | | |
| Number of Bags folded: 38
Shostakovich wrote Festive Overture in 3 days. | | |
| The Sandoval Manifesto (ironic subliminal message)
I am annoyed. I wish that our US history class could spend just one period
with dissolving into endless political arguements with one so vehement
in his stance as is Mr. Sandoval. I tend to not agree with him either,
but politics is one of those few subjects (like religion) where two
opposing parties can argue for hours, becoming exhausted in the
process, and at the end find that neither of their stances has changed
in the least. Although Mr. Sandoval may begin one of these talks, it is
the duty of the class towards each other that we try to keep questions
and comments down and shorten the arguements to keep on task.In
addition, the continual readdressing of the same arguements
has already started to get very old, and it is only the second six
weeks. The aforementioned political discussions also waste
extraordinary amounts of time and contribute to continuing of the class
being beind schedule.
Secondly, why is the class so obbsessive with his "points" and
recieving extra credit. Why cannot the students simply focus on the
actual subject of the class, to learn the history of the United States
(not current events, see above). If you do poorly on an exam, it is due
(usually) to either a lack of study or attention, and although the
"points" he gives for questions and grading will help with the
grade, becoming dependent on them will not help you on the final or the
AP test.
Those are my primary greivances (?). Must finish the closer soon. Good night.
George Orwell:
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Wilhelm Hegel: What
experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments
never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
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| Life has
been busy and diverse! Yesterday, I went from a UIL math competition at
Bel Air, to an Eagle project renovating the third floor of the House of
Hope, to a choir concert that I had learned I was performing at the
night before! Today I played preludes at two church survices and at
another choir concert, rearranged a stand tune, and went to a movie.
All this while fitting in homework, and being done with extra time; it
is amazing.
My dad and my sister went to the Tech game; I think they had a lot of fun, especially since the crowd isn't all drunk like when my parents were in college.
Michael Barba's Eagle project sure is going well, and it has been very enjoyable so far. The House of Hope helps
young women who
find themselves in crisis situations and offer free pregnancy testing,
counseling, support and parenting classes to protect them and their
childrens' lives. They want to rent out they third floor of the 80 year
old building (beautiful) that they are based out of to make income, but
it was all torn up and being used as an attic. In Michael's project so
far, we've pulled out the old linoleum, cleaned, pulled out an old
oven, and painted everything (although I haven't gotten to help with
all of that). He is still going to install carpet, molding, and
probably other stuff I don't know about, but it has been fun and it is
for a good cause.
More sometime soon.
Silly joke:
Several scientists were asked to prove that all odd integers higher
than 2 are prime.
Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, and by
induction - every odd integer higher than 2 is a prime.
Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an experimental
error, 11 is a prime. Just to be sure, try several randomly chosen numbers:
17 is a prime, 23 is a prime...
Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an approximation
to a prime, 11 is a prime,...
Programmer (reading the output on the screen): 3 is a prime, 3 is a
prime, 3 a is prime, 3 is a prime....
Biologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 -- results have
not arrived yet,...
Psychologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime
but tries to suppress it,...
Chemist (or Dan Quayle): What's a prime?
Politician: "Some numbers are prime.. but the goal is to create a kinder,
gentler society where all numbers are prime... "
Programmer: "Wait a minute, I think I have an algorithm from Knuth
on finding prime numbers... just a little bit longer, I've found the last
bug... no, that's not it... ya know, I think there may be a compiler bug
here - oh, did you want IEEE-998.0334 rounding or not? - was that in the
spec? - hold on, I've almost got it - I was up all night working on this
program, ya know... now if management would just get me that new workstation
that just came out, I'd be done by now... etc., etc. ..."
(Two is the oddest prime of all, because it's the
only one that's even!)
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