Refraction

ARRGH !

J’ai une présentation la semaine prochaine. Le sujet?—“Le français parlé et familier” 😥 Heureusement j’aurai passé tous mes examens de mi-semestre (bien qu’il soit déjà presque la fin de semestre :mad:). Il ne reste que deux rapports de labo (eh, comment dit-on ‘lab report’ en français ?), l’un de la physique, l’autre de la chimie.

Bien súr, c’est la présentation dont je m’inquiète le plus. Qu’est-ce que je sais au sujet de l’argot français ? Et quels livres puis-je trouver ? C’est bien l’argot, pas le registre formel. Je ne connais que le verlan, mais je trouve que son vocabulaire est souvent trop vulgaire pour une présentation à l’école …

Désolée, j’aurais voulu écrire plus, mais je dois étudier la physique , j’ai un examen demain :depressed:

I’m upgrading to WordPress 1.5. This may or may not be painful. What it does mean is that you’ll be stuck with the new WordPress default layout for some time, until I re-learn how to adapt the layout.

Random art attacks are fun.

And now you can do them online, here!

It’s a computerized canvas, so you can paint something and then email it to your friends. I thought I’d post it on my blog, though ^^ What’s really interesting is that you can see the process. Luckily, it doesn’t record undo’s; otherwise you’d be sitting there for ages watching my little experiments.

Check out my first finished painting. I don’t think I’ve done anything like this since grade 9 art. XD I think he needs some dental work, though. Ah well. The tools are a little hard to work with.

Comments, flames, and saccharine praise welcome. :biggrin:

I don’t take a lot of online quizzes anymore (okay… I do… but I don’t post the results). I find that a lot of them are flat-out inane and timewasting. Especially quizzes to do with fictional works. I do not want to take a quiz in which the answers are obviously linked to a specfic outcome. I like to see quizzes with a bit of thought behind them. Which is why I feel that this quiz deserves a post!
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Five whole entries in the month of February. I got off to such a good start too 🙁

I actually have no idea why I’m posting this as I have a Chem lab on Thursday and a French composition due on Friday. Oh well. Procrastination rules.

First off, I have a new printer. RIP Canon BJC-2000. Hello Canon Pixma 1500. May you churn out those essays and other schoolwork as well as your predecessor did. I have a feeling the lecture notes killed the BJC-2000.

Secondly, never bother wasting money on Physics labs. My “Pana-Super” 9V batteries worked fine. By the way, does anybody need a few 9V batteries? I have two that I’ll never use again. They’re both knockoffs of some other brands of batteries, but they should work fine for a week or two :tongue:

I find knockoffs really amusing, actually. I don’t think I’ll ever quite get over the fact that my brother once received an “Adiads” shirt from a family friend in Hong Kong. (The font was such that it was really hard to tell.) In addition to “Pana-Super” batteries, I’ve also seen (and bought) “Panaplus.” I see so many random monogrammed handbags I can’t remember what the original initials are supposed to be anymore. Actually, that’s the case with practically all brand names—I can’t remember what the originals are anymore. I did a double take on “Eveready” batteries because I couldn’t remember if there were supposed to be one or two R’s in that name.

My printer died.

Or, rather, the cartridge died. The printer won’t detect it anymore. When I stick the old one in, it makes all the right noises, but I only hear silence when I stick the newer one in.

So, it seems like it’s just a simple matter of buying a new cartridge, right? Sure. Except this is an inkjet printer, and the cartridge costs more than the printer did. The printer’s lasted for over 5 years, but now it’s making funny noises even I try to print with the old cartridge, and…

The cartridge costs around $70. There’s a Canon printer on Amazon going for around $40. Sad world, isn’t it?

I have a headache. I think it was induced by my math midterm this morning. GAR.

The solutions are online, of course. There’s nothing quite as discouraging as discovering that you’ve done the very first question wrong. Oh well. I don’t know how they’re marking, but hopefully I get enough part marks to still do well. I’m really quite annoyed at the fact that my prof decided not to simplify in a lot of questions where simplification could occur–it means, of course, that I wasted my time simplifying when I could have… done something else. Like puzzle out the answers to the rest of the midterm.

I got my Physics midterm back, too. Annoyingly, I “lost” two marks on a question which was marked right. I also had the same answer as all my friends (who got the marks.) So, I have to make an appointment to talk to the professor about my midterm next week… She’s letting us earn 5 extra marks by writing out how and where we messed up on the midterm and how we can improve next time. Like I said, she wants us to do well.

As for me… time to start hitting the books. Seriously. I’m not doing as well as I’d like in most of my classes. I even forgot to hand in my French composition today. :tensed: ARRRGH. I left it with the woman who shares my prof’s office. I hope she gets it. If not, I suppose I’ll have to drop it off next week, too. -_-;;;;

French and Chem midterms after the break. Hopefully those will go better than math and physics.

Just over halfway through the school week from hell :notsure: I don’t think I’ve been this stressed out since some stressful time in IB, and that really says a lot… (Notably that I didn’t think first semester was too bad.)

Monday: realization that this is the week from hell. Panicking about online pre-lab exercise to be completed before 8:00am Tuesday.

Tuesday: Physics lab. Actually, this one wasn’t all that bad, and I actually prefer the lab to the tutorial this term. It was pretty straightforward. Then, French discussion class, during which I kept my mouth shut for the whole hour. (We had a presentation on the decline of Francophones in Canada. “Should all government employees speak French?” Not if it means that an otherwise qualified person is denied a position which is filled by a less-than-compotent person. And let’s be honest here, the only people I have heard speak French here outside of a classroom are tourists and a woman who takes the bus with me in the morning–no, we don’t talk to each other.)

Wednesday: Physics midterm. That was the most difficult physics midterm I’ve ever written. Our prof told us that Gauss’s Law would be a key aspect of the midterm. Naturally, there isn’t a single question about Gauss’s Law on the midterm. I thinks she really wants us to do well–she said as much before the midterm–but feeding us the wrong information is not really the way to do it. I came very close to pulling an all-nighter; I went to bed at 2am. (When you wake up at 6am, that’s cutting it close.) Not only did I have to prep a Chem lab for today, I also had to write the report from two weeks ago. Oops. And I got 6/10 on my quiz.

Thursday: Chem lab. The lab was a partner lab, which only made it more annoying, as I demand exactitude in my Chem labs; my partner, on the other hand, didn’t seem too concerned about contaminating a standard solution by sticking a pipet straight into the volumetric flask. Our equipment was faulty, we broke a graduated cylinder, I printed 40 pages of useless data, we overshot our standard solution AND the pH of the buffer, and we killed out patient by inducing alkalosis instead of curing his acidosis. (pH of blood is about ~7.35 – 7.45, right? We started out with 7.07 and shot to 7.56. Unluckily for us, this was 0.01 outside the acceptable range [7.35-7.55], so we didn’t get the bonus mark either.)

Friday: Math midterm. Can you say SCREWED?! French composition due today about the novel we’re reading. Well, I finished it, but I can’t really say I understand the finer points. And it’s really quite boring! (As one Google search revealed, one review of this book basically said: “This novel can be summed up very succinctly. I woke up, I went to work, I went to the bar, I saw Rose, I went to sleep. Repeat.”)

Oh well, and now I’m waiting for those practice midterms to finish printing. 😥

I came across this survey thingy online and it was just too good to waste. Memories of another evil blog…. in a galaxy far, far away…

Congratulations on being the creator of a new Evil Plan ™!

Your objective is simple: World Domination.

Your motive is a little bit more complex: To show them all

Stage One
To begin your plan, you must first incapacitate a chosen one. This will cause the world to sense a grave disturbance in the force, overwhelmed by your arrival. Who is this evil genius? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good as an evil twin/opposite?

Stage Two
Next, you must obliterate the Moon (ooh, tides!). This will all be done from a obsidian citadel, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will spontaneously combust, as countless hordes of mad scientists hasten to do your every bidding.

Stage Three
Finally, you must tauntingly wave your time machine, bringing about a 1984 police state. Your name shall become synonymous with fuzzy bunnies, and no man will ever again dare roll his or her eyes. Everyone will bow before your cunning intelligence, and the world will have no choice but to name you evil man/woman of the year.

… except they spontaneously combusted. Pity.

I hope this doesn’t get moderated. :biggrin: And I think I really need to see that Monty Python sketch 😀

Well, after deciding to lie low for a while (and by a while, I mean a few days) the spammers have come back. Luckily, I’ve had nowhere near the initial rush of comment spam–SK has deleted 691 comments, and not a single false positive, which makes me happy. Unfortunately, the spammers are moving onto trackback spam. That might help if I er, actually used trackbacks. Oddly enough, I can’t seem to find trackbacks to any spam sites, so I guess I’ll count myself lucky, then?

Oh, I read this interesting interview with a link spammer. I’m not any more sympathetic, but I guess I can understand where they’re coming from. Still, doesn’t it make them even slightly uneasy to be exploiting people’s stupidity? I guess not.

Oh, and is it just me, or has the size of spam emails increased as the free email providers tried to outdo each other? Maybe it’s not that the individual emails are any larger, but that my accounts can hold a lot more of them. :tensed:

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