And we can all go off floating on a cloud
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sniffnoyA few days ago Josh came up with the idea of using corn chips to lure in people from other summer programs so we could try to explain some math to them (just to see how we could do). So far, it hasn't exactly worked. ITRP and Upper Bound have left (thankfully), we presumably wouldn't try it on Honors people since Honors we're on pretty good terms with (well, some of them), so that leaves Summer Theater and Summer Challenge to try it on.
However in the past few days people from Summer Challenge, generally drunk[0] have been coming over and annoying us anyway. A few seem particularly interested in annoying me, probably because I am the most distinctly unfriendly towards them[3]. Yesterday I asked Josh if this would be a good time to try to explain QR to them, and he said it would be, but for whatever reason we didn't actually.
Anyway so this drunk Summer Challenge guy comes up to us and asks us which state is most competitive for math. ...we try to answer as best we can, but I mean, what sort of question is that? He says his school is pretty good at math. I forget what it was. Some boarding school. We say we've never heard of it. "Never?!" Um, nope, never. While he's asking about math schools and says he's never heard of TJ. Which I bet he hasn't. Meanwhile we tell him we all go (well, went, in Liz's case) to public schools.
One girl mentions about being here for English, and some PROMYS person says something about spelling. Everybody laughs, while I have something of a delayed reaction and just go "Oh no..." The PROMYS people start asking if they've heard of me or seen me before. Perhaps... in a movie? Say... Spellbound? "Spellbound?" the girl says. "Isn't that a sexual movie? My parents won't let me watch that." "Yes," Issao says, "Harry's a porn star."
...new topic. I thought Josh was conspiratorial before? Now that he and Etienne (and who else? Svetlana?) are planning to play a *cheating* game of Illuminati later in the week... (today, I think)
The story of Josh's failed bizarre attempt to get revenge on Michelle, I will leave out. That reminds me, I never *did* explain why Etienne came to lecture wearing a dress and a "PWNED" hat. Oh well.
Two guys skipped lecture, and everything else, and went *whale-watching* yesterday. ...yeah. They got in a lot of trouble when they got back.
Anyway so today was the final. Even more stuff written on the board than at the midterm, but I didn't copy it down. I think Matt did. Probably Dina did too. New things included:
No:
First Years
(Later someone stuck the word "Eating" before this and "(Yum!)" afterwards)
Z[7√11]
Calculators, slide rules, abaci, or Stonehenges
Interrupting proctors' beauty sleep
Portable Pwnage Devices[4]
Conspiring with ATN (Josh is OK)
So of course after the final we got the shirt for this year. Not that good. The front of the shirt shows Minkowski's theorem, both a curve and the curve modded out by twice the lattice, with the not-very-good Glenn quote "We like to think about these things one prime at a time." The color is tie-dyed dark blue. The back... well the number is just a giant "04", but the real problem is the font everything is written in. It makes most of it nearly unreadable.
No, I am not going to give the entire text of the back of the shirt. Unless you want me to. Maybe I should just do it tomorrow since tomorrow's the shirt day anyway.
-Sniffnoy
[0]Or, Rebbecca says, perhaps stoned - she said she smelled marijuana on one of them - hence her suggestion it be called "Stoner Challenge". Josh points out they weren't eating any of our chips. Regardless, *very* drunk/stoned. To the point that one of the girls was actually hitting on Josh. He was standing near the door to the East Lounge and some girl says to him something approximating "Rather close to the East Tower, aren't you? I better not see you in my room later tonight!" and gives him her room number. I have to assume that this was some sort of joke.
[3]For instance... a girl comes over, asks us our names. She gets Liz's name, someone else's, she asks me my name. I point. "His name is Chris."
Different girl, or perhaps the same one, it's hard to tell these idiots apart. She's trying to get me to not be so unfriendly. "Well, in our past lives we were best friends," she says. "No," I reply, "You just thought we were."
[4]Inotherwords, Etienne's (well, formerly Etienne's) watergun. Which isn't quite working anymore anyway.
--
"pretty much, my thesis can be reduced to the letter tau"
-TimC
However in the past few days people from Summer Challenge, generally drunk[0] have been coming over and annoying us anyway. A few seem particularly interested in annoying me, probably because I am the most distinctly unfriendly towards them[3]. Yesterday I asked Josh if this would be a good time to try to explain QR to them, and he said it would be, but for whatever reason we didn't actually.
Anyway so this drunk Summer Challenge guy comes up to us and asks us which state is most competitive for math. ...we try to answer as best we can, but I mean, what sort of question is that? He says his school is pretty good at math. I forget what it was. Some boarding school. We say we've never heard of it. "Never?!" Um, nope, never. While he's asking about math schools and says he's never heard of TJ. Which I bet he hasn't. Meanwhile we tell him we all go (well, went, in Liz's case) to public schools.
One girl mentions about being here for English, and some PROMYS person says something about spelling. Everybody laughs, while I have something of a delayed reaction and just go "Oh no..." The PROMYS people start asking if they've heard of me or seen me before. Perhaps... in a movie? Say... Spellbound? "Spellbound?" the girl says. "Isn't that a sexual movie? My parents won't let me watch that." "Yes," Issao says, "Harry's a porn star."
...new topic. I thought Josh was conspiratorial before? Now that he and Etienne (and who else? Svetlana?) are planning to play a *cheating* game of Illuminati later in the week... (today, I think)
The story of Josh's failed bizarre attempt to get revenge on Michelle, I will leave out. That reminds me, I never *did* explain why Etienne came to lecture wearing a dress and a "PWNED" hat. Oh well.
Two guys skipped lecture, and everything else, and went *whale-watching* yesterday. ...yeah. They got in a lot of trouble when they got back.
Anyway so today was the final. Even more stuff written on the board than at the midterm, but I didn't copy it down. I think Matt did. Probably Dina did too. New things included:
No:
First Years
(Later someone stuck the word "Eating" before this and "(Yum!)" afterwards)
Z[7√11]
Calculators, slide rules, abaci, or Stonehenges
Interrupting proctors' beauty sleep
Portable Pwnage Devices[4]
Conspiring with ATN (Josh is OK)
So of course after the final we got the shirt for this year. Not that good. The front of the shirt shows Minkowski's theorem, both a curve and the curve modded out by twice the lattice, with the not-very-good Glenn quote "We like to think about these things one prime at a time." The color is tie-dyed dark blue. The back... well the number is just a giant "04", but the real problem is the font everything is written in. It makes most of it nearly unreadable.
No, I am not going to give the entire text of the back of the shirt. Unless you want me to. Maybe I should just do it tomorrow since tomorrow's the shirt day anyway.
-Sniffnoy
[0]Or, Rebbecca says, perhaps stoned - she said she smelled marijuana on one of them - hence her suggestion it be called "Stoner Challenge". Josh points out they weren't eating any of our chips. Regardless, *very* drunk/stoned. To the point that one of the girls was actually hitting on Josh. He was standing near the door to the East Lounge and some girl says to him something approximating "Rather close to the East Tower, aren't you? I better not see you in my room later tonight!" and gives him her room number. I have to assume that this was some sort of joke.
[3]For instance... a girl comes over, asks us our names. She gets Liz's name, someone else's, she asks me my name. I point. "His name is Chris."
Different girl, or perhaps the same one, it's hard to tell these idiots apart. She's trying to get me to not be so unfriendly. "Well, in our past lives we were best friends," she says. "No," I reply, "You just thought we were."
[4]Inotherwords, Etienne's (well, formerly Etienne's) watergun. Which isn't quite working anymore anyway.
--
"pretty much, my thesis can be reduced to the letter tau"
-TimC
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Date: 2004-08-12 11:49 pm (UTC)OMG, do you know how many raving Dan Radcliff fans are going to eat up that statement?
Eating First Years Yum!
I dunno if I ever told you this, but I was the mysterious kid who whould wright in big multi-colored letters "TOAST" on every white board in RHS. :-p
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Date: 2004-08-13 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-13 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-13 04:25 pm (UTC)Well, different people can read different parts of it, and with their help, I can now read the whole thing.
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Date: 2004-08-13 04:54 pm (UTC)