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My Math Situation

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

This year, I am not taking Math at my high school.

Why?

Because they don’t offer a math class at my level.

Last year, my Sophomore year, I took Calculus (AKA IB Math SL), meaning that I should be taking Calculus 2 this year. However, not enought kids signed up for the class, and it was cut. Since I intend on completing an IB Diploma, I need to have some sort of math credit. However, I was unable to test in my SL class last year because I was a Sophomore. Preferrably, I’d take Calculus 2 at PCC or PSU this year, and take the HL test, but no! I can’t take the HL test as a Junior either. So, I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. One option is to take IB Math Studies SL, however I’ve heard that this class is so ridiculously basic that it would be an insult to my intelligence. So I’ll skip that. Another option is to just test in SL this year. However, my counselor hasn’t confirmed that I can even take the test without being in the class. I don’t see why not. But, I might be rusty if I’m not able to take classes at a college outside of school. Supposedly, HSD will pay for my college classes, but I doubt it. I lost faith in the HSD after the ACMA incident of 8th/9th grade.

Alas, why’d I have to skip 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade math and end up in this position.

(Little known fact, I actually repeated Pre-Algebra, once in 4th grade, once in 5th grade)

How to Play a Druid

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

From the WoW Druid Forums

sumtimes peeps say 2 me HAY HOW 2 PLAY DURID IDK LOL! SO NOW, u CAN PLAY DURID by only rred this!

2) ITS EZ, u can only haf 2 reed teh

ALAMOES COMPLEET DURID INSTURCKSHUN
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OK LISSEN Almo noes about sum durid things sinse the baginning. Maybe B4 durids was week & stuff but now Durids is very storng.

1) OK, Sum durids is bare

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/almobear1.jpg

2) Tehm whos bare durids, can B 4 tank:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/m1a1tankahi.jpg

ONLY DURID DON’T HAF SUM PEEPS IN THE HEAD AND A GUNZ LOL!

3) Man, sum bare druids can maek sum peeps poop in feer bc/ tehms so storng.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/BARESCARE.jpg

4) Bare druids is not so good at uh moonfare spam but its OK b/c a bare durid haf many armors &

when a thing hits durid, maybe thing gets borken hand LOL!

5) Bare durids is 4 funs when u can charje & stun & haf sum armors lol.
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OK LISSEN Also durid haf uh seel form.

1) Seel is can fite, but is kind week.
2) Seel for swim, is fast & dont breeth
3) When seel is gone for fish, is nobody will catch.
4) Seel is can teech frends how is swim

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/swimlessons.jpg

ALSO I FORGETS

Durid has can run fast form is TRAVEL FORM

1) looks liek cheetuh
2) dont cheet or u get bann LOL! JK!!
3) Cheetuh can run fast and him is can run away frum trubul.

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AND ASLO

SUM DURIDS IS MOON KIN

1) Them 1s is look all funny liek maybe form MOON! LOL!

2) mostly uh moonkin is 4 a spam moonfare
3) them haf sum good armors & fite storng.
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DURIDS IS VEERY FAST AND STORNG IN PVP CAN CAST ROOT 4 MAKE PEEPS STOP WHEN MOVE!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/roots.jpg

bc Peeps can always ask if cat druid can B GOOD FOR FITE OR WHAT MAYBE?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/eathed.jpg

U NO CAT DURIDS IS VERY STORNG! SUM PEEPS DUNNO Y SO HEAR IS LIST

1) OK now sum durid is cat

2) Cat durid, tehm dosent heel.

3) Cat uis for fite

4) Cat durid dosent talk about fite

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/nomeow.jpg

5) when cat durid is FITE do not ask for HEEL and NINIRVATE!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/noninervate.jpg

and CAT DURIDS is no spam moonfare! Sum cat durids dosent no wut is uh moonfare!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/nomoonfare.jpg

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DURIDS IS MUST ALWAYZ HALP EECH OTHER:
sumtimes a new durid is need sum halp and advise frum a good durid so u shuld alway halp unother

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/duridteech.jpg

Even I lernd all this form DURID SCKOLL who has wut uh famus teecher there who is knows all this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/DRUIDTEECHER.jpg

DURIDS IS HARD, & BUT STRONG

SUM PEEPLE THINK DURIDS IS CANT BE BARE AND CAN ONLY HEEL AND THEM DOSENT

NO THEY IS ALWAYS CAN SAY:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/bareattack.jpg

BUT ONLY DONT LISSEN TO THEM.

Durids is storng for bare or cat or seel or whatver and u dosent haf 2 heel if u dont liek heel

*********DURIDS IS 4 haf FUN TIME WIT FRENS every1 is like a fun time durid!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/rainbow_dragon/Warcraft/alamoney.jpg

My Conversation with a GM

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

A friend sent me “Chasing Cars” lyrics in WoW and I reported him. Here’s the conversation with the GM that I had


GM Conversation

School’s Back in Session

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Yep, summer is over. Here’s my first trimester schedule:

1st Period: IB History of the Americas HL (HAM)
2nd Period: Teachers Aide with Mr. Domes
3rd Period: Spanish 3
4th Period: IB Economics SL
5th Period: IB Biology SL

That’s it! Only 5 periods a day.

Emps Down

Monday, September 11th, 2006

While I didn’t grab any screenshots, we killed the Twin Emperors for the first time in almost 3 months. It was also my first kill.

Maexxana Down

Monday, September 4th, 2006

On the second night of attempts, we got Maexxana down to 0% before she got us to 0%! Actually, it was a very clean attempt.

Maexxana Dead

As always, Nalk performed well:

Maexxana Healing

Since we killed the last boss in the spider wing, a couple things happened. First, we get a portal back to the beginning!

Maexxana Portal

The little icon by the spider wing lit up too!

Maexxana symbol

Grand Widow Faerlina down!

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

On our first night of attempts, only a couple nights after our Noth kill, we killed Faerlina!

Faerlina is dead!

Maexxana is next!

Noth Dead!!

Monday, August 21st, 2006

After over 10 hours of attempts over three days and about 125g spent on pots, Noth is dead!


Noth is Dead!

Then, we all got stuck behind the boxes and couldn’t loot 🙁

Stuck behind boxes

Snakes on a Plane! Snakes on a Plane!

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

I went with some friends to the 10:00 preview showing of Snakes on a Plane at Cornelius Cimena 9. Let me start by saying the experience was great! I’ve never had such a good time in a movie theater. The movie was everything I’d expected: it featured great Sam-killing-snake action, great snake-killing-people action, and it was corny to the point of hilarity.

Snakes on a Plane Poster

The cinematic quality of the movie is pretty low. During the exterior shots of the plane, you can practically see the string holding it up against a painted backdrop. Some of the computer generated snakes look really fake. The acting is sub-par; some of the dialog is just awful.

But it’s the poor quality that makes it even more funny. The entire theater was engrossed in the movie, clapping and cheering whenever Samuel L. Jackson killed a snake, or a snake killed someone. We counted down the timer until the snakes were released, we said “I’VE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE” right along with Jackson, we sang along with the music video at the end. There were a couple scary moments, and there was one oh-my-god moment at the end where the theater went silent.

I would love to go see the movie again. It was good enough to warrant a second viewing. But I doubt it will be as purely awesome as Thursday night was. Like my paper said “It’s an A+ movie if you see it with a crowd in theaters this weekend, but any time afterward, it will be a C-, a poorly written, acted, and filmed B movie.”

Here’s my own thoughts about the movie:

Internet Speeds

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Here’s the type of speeds my new Verizon FiOS can pull:


Bandwidth