Just some details

[sniffnoy]

Dr. Ostfeld lent me these books, Big Secrets and Bigger Secrets by William Poundstone. There's some really neat stuff in here. Did you know there's a whole bunch of radio stations that just broadcast a single letter over and over in Morse code, and nobody knows where they are, who's doing it, or why? (OK, so that's not actually secret. But it's still really neat. And a lot of stuff in there actually *is* supposed to be secret. Like the (probable) formula for Coke. Really, that's in there.)

So I showed Dr. D the cards. He acted a bit disappointed that the name "The Shadow Nose" wasn't original, but of course we know he really already knew that since, while he doesn't read this regularly, he certainly saw the entry about how I have to bring in the cards (for obvious reasons), and I'm told other people had already pointed it out to him being used in even other places.

And now: My schedule. I really have nothing to say about it. Well, except that I was actually thinking of taking Combinatorics as an elective (Ed Early is probably going to be teaching it...), but, um, yeah, taking any electives sounds like a bad idea. Also that I have no 2-mod things (except of course lunch is always officially 2 mods, but nobody cares), so I can just post this thing in blocks. And of course, before you ask, because I'm sure someone will forget - well, no, actually I'm not, but if someone else posted their schedule, I probably would - Wednesday is Senior Experience.

	Monday	Tuesday	Thursday	Friday
1	AP Physics C	AP Physics C	AP Physics C	AP Physics C
2	Gym, er, PE	Philosophy of Human Experience[3]	PE	Philosophy of Human Experience
3	World Lit II	World Lit II	World Lit II	Senior Seminar
4	AP Comp Sci AB	AP Comp Sci AB	AP Comp Sci AB	AP Comp Sci AB
5	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
6	Senior Topics in Math[0]	Senior Topics in Math	Senior Topics in Math	Senior Topics in Math
7	Advanced Biology	Material Science	Advanced Biology	Material Science
8	Free	Free	Free	Free

Notice how it's much more constant than in other years.

You know what I don't understand? Why, when they give us the schedule, do they leave off the teachers? It's not like they don't know them - I got a glimpse at my real schedule a bit ago, they know the teachers. Maybe they don't want us complaining in advance about the teachers we're getting?

-Sniffnoy

[0]Really it's called "Senior Math Topics", but "Senior Topics in Math" sounds better.
[3]Dr. Grieco's class.

--
"Heisenberg Airlines: we don't know where we are, but we're making
good time!"
-Ian Davis, rhod

Comments

[flyingemu.livejournal.com]

.. only Comp Sci AB? Why not BC?

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

AB is actually the higher one. There's A and AB.

[zakie.livejournal.com]

what determines whether we're in A or AB, im in A... i asked nevard a while ago about the class and he said there would be a little java aptitude test thingy.. maybe that's it?

go BA guidance office, that's all i gotta say

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

Did you know there's a whole bunch of radio stations that just broadcast a single letter over and over in Morse code, and nobody knows where they are, who's doing it, or why?

Actually, we know all about who's doing it and why. They are medium power marine beacons. Broadcasting one, two, or three letters over and over again (well, not S-O-S, obviously) is part of what differentiates beacon signals from those generated by actual marine vessels. These are being phased out as more sophisticated navigation and land-avoidance technologies become more widespread. This annoys some boating enthusiasts who like the redundancy such beacons provide.

There are also aviation beacons that do this sort of thing, but I don't think any of them broadcast single letters, but some marine beacons do.