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It's about that time of the week again, where I say to myself "Hmmm, some people might want to know I'm still alive, so I better
do an update."
Currently I'm sporting a nice sore throat, and sucking down like no tomorrow strawberry flavored Mentho-Lyptus which is a fancy name for cough
drops. I stopped by the student health care center to make sure it wasn't strep (as
I have a history with that as a kid) and take advantage of the heath care fees I pay every semester that gets included in my tuition.
It's essentially a free doctor's office for UF students, but you pay for any tests or medicnes you need. Pretty neat place really. I'm
really hoping I get better before the weekend as the Southeast regionals of the
International Collegiate Programming Contest are this weekend.
At least it's just my throat that hurts, everything else feels fine. But man does it hurt...
As far as this past weekend went, Midnight Madness was awesome! One of the freshman looks like the identical twin of one of
our star Freshman last year (now a Sophmore) and I think we'll do really well this year. I got in line about 6:30
with a friend of mine, to make sure we were in the first 1,500 to get a free shirt. Here's some pictures from it:
Me and my friend Heather eating pizza in line
Hundreds of students "lined up" to get in at 9
Sumo wrestling for free breadstix
Gator cheerleaders and Al and Alberta
Slam dunk contest
David Lee with a dunk
Scrimmage
All the free stuff I got!
Then Saturday we won the Arkansas game (I always remember how to spell it as AR-Kansas) and I went to go see a pretty cool
ballet at the Phillips center. And then I was throughly schooled in Trivial Pursuit by my friend. It's not my fault I'm not a history major so I don't know all this obscure history stuff. They should have computer Trivial Pursuit, now THAT I could do awesome at.
Play-doh is the coolest stuff ever.
The modern concept of the atom was concieved exactly200 years ago yesterday by John Dalton, who came up with the idea of representing atoms as circles that make up other elements. The idea of an
indivisible particle dates back to the Greeks, but he came up with a molecular weight table, which is where the Dalton unit comes from today.
The NYT has a interesting article on how much cheaper textbooks are oversees compared to the US. Exact same book, half the price. My OpSys book which costs $95 new on Amazon.com costs $67 new on Amazon.co.uk. Exact same book, just says "International Edition" on there. And being if I didn't buy from friends, I'd have easily over $500 in books plus lab expenses, I can take any break I can get.
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