So, Kevin got me to switch from Mozilla to Firebird. A big yay to Kevin for pointing the existence of Firebird out to me! Firebird is so much faster than Mozilla; so far, I only have 3 complaints. Zerothly, strangely enough, that when I try to type in a new home page in the Options box, the OK button stops working. So for a while (ie one day) I was stuck with the Firebird home page as my own. Today I finally tried hitting "Use current site", and that worked. Still a strange bug, though. Firstly, middle-clicking activates a scrolly-thing instead of jumping to the page on the clipboard. And thirdly, I can't seem to get the Java plugin to work. Hm. I'm not sure whether I should blame that on Mozilla, Sun, or lump it with my other problems and blame it on Mandrake. (Since I haven't said this before, I'll say it now: I will eventually be getting a new computer - a laptop - with Windows XP, so I'll actually have a truly working copy of Windows again, and then I'll install some Linux distro *other than Mandrake* on it, so I'll actually have a truly working copy of Linux again.)
Mandelbrot today. Only got a 9 due to failing to realize the significance of the fact that... er, perhaps somebody hasn't taken Mandelbrot yet, probably shouldn't say. Of course it's ridiculously obvious, but it wasn't to me, so... as for the Team round, we completely beat that into the ground. It was ridiculously easy. Of course, I ended up in Regional for Team round, but even so, it was truly ridiculously easy. Very strange, how different the National was from the Regional this time...
Bwahahahaha... this turn I'm submitting 2 proposals and 3 referenda![0] BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
...OK, so that's no big deal. But still. I've never done it before.
Oh, and the player numbers Declaration failed, and Max still hasn't joined.
Meh, I had a great quote, but I can't remember it. Instead, I'll end this with a limerick by W.S. Gilbert, taken from Metamagical Themas:
There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.
When asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't-
I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet."
-Sniffnoy
[0]The legal limit in Nomicron.
--
"We ought to make the pie higher."
-George W. Bush
Mandelbrot today. Only got a 9 due to failing to realize the significance of the fact that... er, perhaps somebody hasn't taken Mandelbrot yet, probably shouldn't say. Of course it's ridiculously obvious, but it wasn't to me, so... as for the Team round, we completely beat that into the ground. It was ridiculously easy. Of course, I ended up in Regional for Team round, but even so, it was truly ridiculously easy. Very strange, how different the National was from the Regional this time...
Bwahahahaha... this turn I'm submitting 2 proposals and 3 referenda![0] BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
...OK, so that's no big deal. But still. I've never done it before.
Oh, and the player numbers Declaration failed, and Max still hasn't joined.
Meh, I had a great quote, but I can't remember it. Instead, I'll end this with a limerick by W.S. Gilbert, taken from Metamagical Themas:
There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.
When asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't-
I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet."
-Sniffnoy
[0]The legal limit in Nomicron.
--
"We ought to make the pie higher."
-George W. Bush
