Look what I just wasted an hour doing!

I still have a problem set to finish, but I had no clock, so I had no idea how long I was taking...

I just made a giant grid of the elemental symbols. Uppercase letters on the vertical axis, lowercase plus an underscore (for no second letter) on the horizontal. If it makes an element, it's blacked in. Also, the diagonal (Aa, Bb...) is highlighted along the edges of its boxes. At the bottom of each column and the end of each row is a count of how many it contains; next to each uppercase letter is how many elements that element appears in. The most is R, with 19. At the bottom right is the total number of permanently named elements (the only ones included, obviously), and to the bottom right of that, the number of elements on the diagonal (0).

Oh, there were two mistakes still on our earlier elements thing: Firstly, we missed niobium (Nb). But since we had 111, this means we must have invented another element. Or at least, another symbol - I had accidentally included Fl, presumably an absentminded second symbol for fluorine.

-Sniffnoy

I lost. Also, I won.

So today 3 more summer programs arrived. Already here were us and BUSTI/BUTI (whichever it is now), and also I think Upper Bound, but now also ITRP, Summer Challenge, and something new called "Visual".

So last night there was an Illuminati game (same players as the day before - Josh, Rebecca, Chris, Eli, Erick, and Ebay) that went so long that they actually decided to call it a draw. Hah. Actually I'm glad Josh ordered me to bed quite a while before it was over, or else I probably would have stayed and watched it, having little better to do.

So, The Game has become quite prevalent here, with ADan losing... well, just ridiculously often. It's gotten to the point that just looking at ADan causes lots of people to lose. Alex decided to just forfeit.

ADan: But you realize that if you forfeit The Game... you lose.

It's been suggested that "I lost" should go in the T-shirt as a quote for ADan... but then just looking at the T-shirt might cause people to lose.

So last night it happened that we found a bunch of the first-years playing Truth or Dare... Josh gave them a warning to be careful with that game, citing some disgusting things that had happened as a result of it at his school...

Anyway this led to a discussion of strip x, for various games x, both how it could be implemented and how it would affect the game (most especially in the case of Strip Mafia). Of course we also just tried to think of more and more ridiculous games, and this continued at dinner today, eventually resulting in Strip The Game. "Make sure not to tell ADan about this!"

But the definite winner has to be, Strip Russian Roulette. Or, "Why did we bury him with a shoe missing?"

OK, I should get back to work on my zeta functions problems. By which I mean the ones for the actual class, not the one Dustin gave me.

-Sniffnoy

Oh, and: I have now been officially declared the winner of Round 5 of Nomicron! w00t!