December 2009
68 posts
lfar:
Just paid my last tuition (of my [first?] undergraduate degree) of my life!
I FORGOT
I saw mountains!
HOCKEY is so much better...
in HD
Tasha, you want some tea? It’s been a full hour since we last caffeinated.
– Dad
I love being home for the holidays.
(via mapoftheworld)
/ NO WAY - MY dad just offered ME tea too!
painful
I’m leaving my house in Waterlo around 12:00pm tomorrow, and it will take me about 11 hours to get to my parents house :(
DONE!!!
I’m totally finally completely done 4A!!!
50%
1250 words of 2500 written for my last paper of my second last term!
Word up home stretch!
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It's Like HOTH out there! →
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A Cold Lesson in Systems Engineering →
Engineering fail:
technodad:
An amusing lesson in the law of unintended consequences in an Engadget article “LED traffic lights don’t melt snow, do cause accidents”
A number of cold weather American states are reporting their dismay at finding out that LED traffic lights are so energy efficient that they do not produce enough excess heat to dissipate any snow that covers them.
I predict the...
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let's be glad! →
If you’re looking for good Christmas music.
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thedailywhat:
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: And just like that, the Iron Man 2 trailer makes its way online.
In theaters May 7, 2010.
[via.]
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sad realization
Most people don’t actually have any idea what engineering is or what an engineer does.
Season 4
Lily: Marshall and I made this big decision to have… dinner. And I thought I was ready to have …dinner, but then he called to cancel and it got me thinking, is it too early for us to have… dinner?
Ted: Well I had an early lunch so I’m ready for dinner.
Lily: Dinner is A BABY
Robin: LILY! That’s TERRIBLE!
A few weeks ago I heard an argument for why people
I just use both… You shouldn’t constrain yourself to one translation. Better yet, just use biblegateway and use them all.
runningthroughthefields:
should use the ESV translation (or at least a word-for-word translation of the originial text) as opposed to the “thought-for-thought” processes of the NIV and most other Bible translations. I was not that convinced until today. In the...
This isn't quite the Robin Hood I remember. →
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WHAT HAVE THEY DONE!??
PANIC PANIC PANIC
night before a 100% final
GONG SHOW
Me: Johnathan Reeves, isn't he the guy who played Batman?
Rachel: No, that's Keanu Reeves.
Me: Oh no, it was Christopher Reeve!
Rachel: No, that was Superman!
this conversation totally made my day. we are pretty much the coolest.
***RACHEL USED TUMBLR!!!***
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Albertan Christmas T-minus 10 days!
thedailywhat:
Prank of the Day: Eight months later, The notorious CollegeHumor Prank War resumes, with Amir seeking revenge against Streeter for his epic half-million-dollar-shot-heard-round-the-world prank.
The set up is simple: Throw Streeter off a plane and lead him to believe he’s going to die. Good times had by all, etc.
Up Next: Streeter offs Amir’s parents and leads him to believe...
Gmail Labs!
Have you looked through the Labs section for Gmail (i.e. addons/improvements for Gmail)? Cause some of them are pretty amazing:
One lets you navigate through conversations using mouse gestures. Another one installs “Mail Goggles” that tests you on a few math problems to see how coherent you are before sending a message.
OH, AND THIS ONE! “Forgotten Attachment Detector -...
dallasw:
lfar:
Oh, barf on the world! I am going to be spending $780 on textbooks next term (and I’m even taking a course that requires no textbook!)
Sharkfarts!
Try abebooks.com to check for international versions? They are about 30-50% of the price.
Also, this is totally ghetto but I did it this term. The library had the textbook I needed, so I got it, set up my dSLR and took pictures of...
Who knew that I would have to remember material from last term’s Heat Transfer I for this term’s Heat Transfer II? I think I’ve read this chapter on radiation from front to back about four times now…
More screaming (46 songs? I'm set!) →
I remember back in the days of living in the quad when I woke up to this every morning. My roommates hated it, but it was a nice change from JT.
MFT
Well written textbooks.
Another “just in case you didn’t know this, though you probably did and I’m just slow” from j-pal.
Try endless scrolling for your dashboard (http://www.tumblr.com/settings).
wakeupsmoothiestudystudycoffeestudystudycoffeestudystudybeerstudystudyteastudystudyteateastudystudyteastudystduysleep
justusz:
Caffeine, textbooks and deadlines.
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