I learn Chinese in NYC with Veronica Chou. I really appreciate her teaching. I find her a very patient and understanding teacher and she helps me feel comfortable making mistakes (essential to the process of learning). I have a lot of fun during our lessons, and she helps me learn vocabulary related to my work and personal interests. I highly recommend her!
Checkout the website of my friend Nicole Brancato. She built it herself using Tumblr and Google Domains with just a little help.
Maradonia is a series of really terrible books, against which I harbor a particular dislike, because of the author’s pathetic attempts at marketing the books as original writing.
ImpishIdea published a great rebuttal to Secrets of the Dragon Riders, which is a predictably bad book, all in all.
A new Twilight Movie Review has just been posted at ImpishIdea, I hope you all enjoy.
Hey, I wrote a Brisingr review at my site. It's a rolling review, so expect updates as I finish each chapter.
So, being the dutiful anti-fan that I am, I've compiled my list of Brisingr Predictions.
So, I've been pretty hard at work doing other things, which is why this blog is never used. The latest results can be seen at my new site, ImpishIdea.
Hey everyone,
Happy thanksgiving. I'm busy with NaNo, so I haven't been posting, but I have not in fact passed away. Anyways, today the house is really quiet since my mom took the two younger siblings with her to Taiwan to visit her folks. Good times.
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What the title said. It's at Maplewood library at 7:00. You should all come.
Hmm. Well, yesterday I didn't go to debate since Andy had a cold, and I didn't want to go, so it was cool. But today I went to soccer tryouts with a semicold, and it was not cool. Other than that I've just been keeping busy. PSAT on Wednesday, I'm not very worried after a few practice test, it seems rather easy.
Well, we went 1-3. Our win was a bye. I have to say, the need for evidence rather caught me off guard. I had framed a debate so that the round would come down to the weighing issue of a human life versus a violation of the first amendment, something that would have easily been a win in LD. But apparently I didn't have enough evidence. For something that is suppose to be based on good arguments it is ridiculous how you can't even base arguments off of moral judgment.
Tomorrow is my first debate tournament of the year, same it's classic. I really should be getting some sleep seeing as how I need to get up early for it tomorrow, but I have a really huge energy rush, due to the fact that I just completed two homework assignments in forty minutes, just an hour away from the deadline. Anyways, I hope to do really well tomorrow, because I'm angling for a position as team captain, seeing as how no one else is there to compete with me for that position. Both of our cases are pretty kickawesome, so it should be okay. Our neg case in particular is great, since it invalidates most of what they say, regardless of how they say it.
I scored a 85 on the UMTYMP test. Except for one spot where I screwed up an integral on a arclength I didn't make any major mistakes, so I'm pretty pleased with myself. The thing I'm more pleased about s the fact that I'm actually off to a better start this year than last year, and last year I only had six classes. Signs of progress...
Debate tournament on Saturday. The fact that Andy is my partner is possibly the only thing that makes the activity bearable, as almost every practice is during my classes and classic debate sucks and yadda yadda. Anyways, I need to finish up our cases. They are both extremely over the top, and I hope to win off of weighing issues alone. Our impacts are along the lines of America descending into totalitarianism and America's economy imploding.
Kevin and I teamed up once again for an Epic bout of Two Headed Giant. We had the same record as we did last time, but paradoxically won fewer packs. It was still a good time.
UMTYMP test today. It went alright, I was actually prepared for a change.
And I attended the UMTYMP college night AND the Yale Information session. For a liberal arts college it's surprisingly attractive to me. Yale has the benefit of having really good speakers as admission officers. It's a lot more convincing than Stanford, for example.
So, today was the last day of campaigning for us student government. And tomorrow is the Lorwyn prerelease. I'm too tired to say more.
Here is some wondrous Apple technology, just working. I gotta say, I really miss my "hi-quality earbuds." It's a shame they could not withstand the undoubtedly earth shattering strain of me removing it from my ear. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
Also, I beat Cave Story. And I'm now extremely busy and I need to get it all done before Saturday, so I can attend the Lorwyn prerelease tournament. On a different note, I watched the movie Brick, which is awesome just because it is noir, but was also awesome because Nora Zohetner replaced Keira Knightley as coolest actress ever.
As you can probably guess, there is a chapter meeting tomorrow at Eden Prairie library. If you couldn't guess, now you know. You would also do well to know that they are on a monthly cycle. Anyways, you guys should come, since our turn out for the last meeting was quite impressive to say the least.
Using a program called Synergy I was able to do away with the dual boot. Since I have two computers in my room anyways, I figured I might as well use them both. I now have them set up with two monitors side by side. It's actually two computers sharing one mouse and keyboard. When I move my mouse from the edge of one it goes into the other. Quite cool.
I got substantially farther in the secret level, but I'm still unable to complete it.
