Divine Lunacy

We took a pilgrimage to Fedral Hill today… But first we stopped at Garden City to go to some overpriced gormet store. The overpriced gormet store was giving out free peppermint hot coccoa with super expensive chocolate marshmellow, hot cider and bunt cake. My sister and I took the pleasure of checking the price on the Chocolate marshmellows. They are $18.50 for 12. I ended up spending $36.53 on about 7 items at Federal Hill, they were all from Roma. After looking at the receipt, I found that a box of gormet chocolate was $15. I bought Zito, Parpardelle, Wafers, Amaretti, Nutella, and some unnamed macaroni… Then, of course we went to Casserta where I over ate :). The problem with buying fancy pastas like parpardelle and zito is that I don’t want to eat them. They are just soo fun, especially zito!

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I spent like 4 hours talking to some random 7^th grader yesterday. Hehe. I really freaked him out. I knew when his great-grandfather died and his name. I knew his uncle’s name and his former address. It was really intersting to see him react to that. I have no idea why I was even talking to him, and I am surpired that he never blocked me. If I were him, even I would have blocked me! Well, I blame him for how crappy my report came out! :-p I spent all my time talking to him, and I should have been drafting a literary masterpeice.

No TSA this week :(, at least not for us non engineering people. All the engineering students took a trip to the guy in mass to discuss the playground. This means the website will be delayed at least another week, but I had nothing to do with it this time!!

Tom, and Tim: Hey, I’ll get your damned CD’s eventually. You can’t be too demanding when you are dealing with such goods.

I took my planned walk to the little general today! I had originally planned to buy $20 worth of pixi sticks. Unfortunately, after grabbing all the pixi sticks on the shelf and checking out the total was only $8.56; Only 16 packages of pixi-sticks. Not to speak in the in the past future tense ( it only exists in my minnd ), but we gave jill the pixi sticks today. It was mildly interesting, but of course, the more fun part was snorting some from the package I kept for myself.

Last year, my history teacher was “way to the right”, and he taught as such. Now, this year, my history teacher is “way to the left”, and he teaches as such. He can’t go five minutes without belittling bush, or bringing up Iraq. He even brought up the nuclear thing once. Is it too much to ask to just be taught without having views forced upon you? Being in that class gives me a headache; I just can’t stand to listen to all the hollow arguments, and feeble attempts at converting us all, though perhaps they aren’t so feeble. He probably has most of the class going! ugh!

So, we did matricies in school this week! More interestingly, we went over hill block ciphers. Penis gave me the idea to write a program to do them… So, I did. I made a matrix class in php, it is about 200 lines, including classes multiplication, addition and subtraction which extend matrix. ( I haven’t gotten around to inverse ). The arithmetic functions all work very well, but something seems to be going wrong in the cipher algorithm. Whenever I give it an enciphered string and the inverse matrix, it doesn’t completely decode it…. But I will get to that. It probably has something to do with how I am using the php chr() and ord() functions ( they deal with ASCII characters ).

Once again, a POW in geometry. They have all been pretty easy so far, and it is rather annoying me. Mr. Horne seemed kind of disappointed and shocked when I asked him if my answer was correct, before leaving school on friday. What, does he expect me to spend my whole week on it??? Is that why they call them Problems of the week? I always seem to mock that , and turn them into problems of the day! We should have one everyday, that would mean less time doing nothing.

Come friday, comes another POW… This pow was no harder than the last, but really no easier.. though the math is much simpler. Most of the freshmen seem to be stummped by it, though it really isn’t bad. I have come across two ways of solving it, both of which have gotten me the same answer. ( yay ). I am too lazy to write the problem down right here. It involves a triangle, and can be solved either through trigonometric ratios, a system of quadratic equations ( pythagorean theorem ), or by similar triangles. The pythagorean theorem is only used twice the similar triangle way, and each time with only one variable… Sadly, my report is meager in comparison to the last one. 4.5 pages, compared to 7.25.

Everything was cancelled this past weekend. The BHS mystery hunt, originally scheduled to begin at 1400 in the auditorium was post ponned a week due to McNutty being sick. :(. I was also supposed to be camping this weekend. The campout was moved back a day, then cancelled, due to snow.

Alas, Some information from the PUD, whom the technogy Club, here at BHS is designing a website for. I just contacted Mark Miniga, the current webmaster with a few questions. ( yes, joe… see what you have missed?? )… Work should begin on the site soon, and hopefully my comrades aren’t W3C ignorant fools…

Just to let the whole world know ( not that the whole world comes here… ) I am still at school!!! ahaahhh! I should be getting home like now. I get the feeling I have other homework aside from that 3-5 page essay thing, which I fully intend to pull out of my ass )

On sunday and monday, I watched Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the ring. Two hours of the movie were shown each day. During most of the commercial breaks, I went to my computer and talked to people on aim. When I arrived at my computer, my idle time was always 12-13 minutes. The commercial breaks lasted 4 minutes. See what i am getting at? The commercial breaks were in a ratio of 1:3 with the movie. For a four hour movie, that is 1.3333… hours of commercial break!!! Oddly enough, that number is also where the infinite sum of (1/4)^x converges, which is basically the answer to the problem of the week this week. Think about all those commercial breaks… Had I stayed and watched all of them, that would have been 160 30-second commercial Breaks. That is a lot of commercial.

Math league was yesterday… TSA was yesterday… Both of them were at 1400. I had to blow off TSA this week to go be a math geek *gasp*. It was go0d though, they were some pretty good problems. Fun problems.

Come Friday, a new POW. The title of it is Diminishing Squares

The Figure begins with a square of side length 2 units. Squares are continually added which have a side length which is one-half the previous square. Suppose this process continues to infinity. What is the area of the Figure? Explain your answer.

Well, the answer is most definitely not infinite, certainly not 5 and definitely not 6. Depending how far one wants to take this, it can involve some calculus, or just some simple arithmetic, but either way, it will involve plenty of exponents. Well anyway, if you give up, the answer can be found here ( a rough draft of my report )

Now for something more enfuriating. Battle of the Bands, which was scheduled for 1800-2200, yesterday was cancelled due to a tyrannical Principle. In our school, we have this annoying little thing called AI. Anyone who is on AI cannot participate in extra-curricular school events. Battle of the Bands is not a school event—In fact, the only association it has with the school is that it was scheduled to be in the auditorium. The insane principle went as far as to call an outside agency that was sponsoring it and tell them it was cancelled. Thats right!!! He wasn’t even running it, but he decided to make the called. If this was something like talent show, which is school run, then this would be ok, but they were paying to rent the auditorium and everything!!!! Talk about over using your power….

Are you one of those persons whom tries to argue the irrationality of 1/3? Do you think that .7234478243278432785478 is an irrational number? If either one of those applies to you, then you better read below. I have way too much time, but if one more person tries to tell me that 1/3 is irrational, I will explode.

What is an irrational number? An irrational number is a number which has exacly 0 exact numerical representations. An irrational number cannot be represened as P over Q, it has no exact form. An irrational number is a number with a never-terminating, non-repeating decimal expansion, it goes on forever and it doesn’t have a repeating pattern throughout. 1/3 is rationally represented in EXACT form as 1/3, .3 repeating, .1 in trinary. ( although there are a million other representations ). pi is irrational, it never terminates and there is no repeating throughout, however it is exactly represented with the symbol, which is understood to be the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Not satisfied? look it up on mathworld.

Hehe. I spontaineously decided to wipe my root partition and start from scratch today… I don’t know why. Perhaps I really needed something to do or something. My home directory is fine, but now I have alot of packages to reinstall. I suppose it is all for the better though, I had alot of crap in there that I have wanted to get rid of for a long time.

Election day today… I sat home and did next to nothing. Now I sit here at TSA wondering when all the losers who are expected will show up. There are two of us here. Kyle and I. Worse more, for reasons stated above, I cannot get any work done on anything I have going on at home :(. Now while everyone else is at home watching election results, I have no idea what the hell is going on. Infact, I feel so disconnected from everything else in the world that I wouldn’t even be hurt if the LAN went down right now. I think I will just of some random program to write now. I need something to do that will at least feel like less of a waste of time than wasing time.