At one point, there was this list of books that had gone viral and was spreading around various social networks. There were 100 books listed and you were suppose to mark those that you've read. A lot of them are books that could be assigned for English class, but there are some modern ones. At some point I would like to read through a lot of them, but there will be a few I'll probably have to skip.
The list along with it's formatting information is after the jump.
Now that summer is finally here, I have a little bit more time on my hands. I am continuing my quest to finish my list of 100 books. In that regard I finally finished A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens a while back. I thought it was a reasonably well written book, although it still wasn't on the same level of Great Expectations. I also just finished Wuthering Heights. It wasn't a bad book although it was rather depressing. At least the last chapter closed on a somewhat happy ending. I'm
I finished my last final of the semester yesterday around 3 PM which means that winter break is finally here. This past semester was crazy busy and it didn't give a lot of time to do much of anything besides school work. Grades won't be in for another week, but I feel like I did pretty well in most of my classes this semester. The grades may not be quite as good as the previous few semesters, but at this point I'm not hugely concerned. Now that classes are done I have a little bit of time to r
"It was an early morning yesterday I was up before the dawn And I really have enjoyed my stay But I must be moving on" I guess had to come to this at some point. Over the last semester my free time had continually dwindled down until there was barely enough left for me to do a lot of the stuff I wanted to do. I finally hit a wall this semester as I've started working at my college's tutoring center. That combined with two of the more challenging and/or time consuming classes in my college's
Let's just say over sleeping is not a good way to start your birthday. I wanted to show up for work at 8 AM, but we I set my alarm the night before I neglected to make sure it was turned on. I rolled out of bed at about 7:45 in a huge panic. So, yeah that wasn't a great start. As for my birthday, I didn't do anything exciting at all. Most of my birthday's have been pretty low key these last few years. I'll probably have to change that at some point. I didn't really expect anything big for
The first is from back in September, when I took a walk around the NDSU campus to take a few pictures. The second was at my grandparents cabin earlier in the summer. I feel like I should make a content block for photography, but then I would have to update the rest of my content blocks and that would require work.
Woke up this morning and it looked like it was winter again. As much as I love snow, I don't want to see after March, and I certainly don't want to see it near the end of April.
I miss last year, it warmed up right after spring break and then it was pretty much nice the rest of track season.
Yeah. I talked to the athletic trainer and I looks like I have tendentious in my knee. I guess I'm going to be doing a lot of cross training over the next couple of weeks and hoping it will get better. I've tried running with it, but that really hasn't worked that well.
I'm probably still going to be running in meets, but this definitely won't help my times, not that were that great before.
Not sure what exactly is wrong, but something happened to my knee during track practice on Monday and it hasn't felt right since. I've been icing it like crazy (relatively speaking) and hopefully it will heal up so I can start running again next week. I tried running yesterday, but that didn't really work out.
Maybe in a weird way this is a good thing, since it's forcing me to rest giving my shins some time heal too.
Some how I don't think my life is ever going to be the same after I finish Calculus 1. I'm still in awe of the power of the derivative. I'm seeing all these connections with the non-calculus based Physics class I took last semester. Physics is going to really fun when I finally get to take a calc based course this fall.
We also got the take home test back that we took last weekend. I guess I did pretty well, but the I was most surprised with the rowing rate problem that was on it. I wasn
I managed to stop into Toys R Us earlier today since I heard that the series four Collectible Minifigs are showing up in stores now. I guess I got lucky since the associate I talked with said they got their shipment of series four the previous day.
I ended up getting a Musketeer, the Hazmat guy, an Artist, the Garden Gnome, and the Soccer Player. I felt almost all of the other figs, but I had to pass on most of them since I didn't want to spend $50. The only ones I didn't find were the Fra
This is a list of all the albums I currently own. I own a compact disc for almost all of the albums, which means I have a pretty big stack. The singles and remaining albums I've purchased off of Amazon. (I hate the iTunes store.)
I should also note, I define a single on this list as a single track, regardless of whether it's from an album or an actual single release.
Album or single - Album Name - Single Name (If it's a single)
3 Doors Down
Single - Another 700 Miles - Kryptonite
There is 16 inches of snow in the forecast for the rest of this weekend where I live, which is really too bad since I want winter to be over with.
I guess the forties we've had for the last week or so were too good to be true.
Thanks to Gatanui, I've been I been informed that I've now been on BZPower for three years. I can't believe it's really been that long. It certainly doesn't seem like it's been three years.
I don't know if that qualifies me as an old timer yet, but I'm certainly no longer a newb.
Does my post font seem too big? I thought I had it set to a good a size, but I've been using my laptop and it seems like it got a lot bigger even though I have changed anything. I'm wondering which other people see it.
Normally I would just make a list of significant events that have happened over the last year, but really, I don't have the desire or the willpower to dig through all my blog entries from the past year. So you'll have to settle for a little rambling.
Over the past year a lot of stuff has happened, both in my life and in the world as a whole. Probably the most significant thing I did over the past twelve months was my trip to Washington D.C. and the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. You spe
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The light is from the 2009 LEGO City Advent Calender. When I first saw it, all I could think was Narnia. I finally got around to make a vignette to go with it.
My birthday present arrived in the mail yesterday. It turns out it's a new Laptop, and a high powered one at that. I was going to buy myself one at some point this summer but now I don't have to. I wasn't even going to buy one this powerful.
It's an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC, or at least that's what the label says. This is probably one of the largest laptops you can buy. It's even too big for the bag I got from my dad a couple of months ago.
18.4" screen
1 TB Hard Drive Space (2 x
I originally thought I missed out on the series 2 minifigs after Toys R Us sold out before I was able to get over there. However, fate had other plans for me.
While I was shopping this weekend I discovered a massive stock pile of series 2 minifigs in the Christmas of a local Shopko. I didn't have a bar code chart, but I manged to feel out a Karate Master. I got lucky with that one, since it came with two of the minifig statue things.
I went back the next day with one of my brothers an
For the last Physics lab we did an experiment involving the the pressure of air at constant volume with varying temperature. In other words, we watched water boil and took pressure measurements at different temperatures. We didn't measure pressure directly, though. We had a special gauge that that changed it's electrical resistance based on pressure.
Due to the jumpiness of the measuring tools, the extrapolated value we got for absolute zero was ~-292° C. The accepted value is -273.15° C.
I braved the somewhat slippery roads earlier to day to go to Toys R Us and pick up some of the series 3 minifigs.
They had a bunch there. I ended up using both the dot chart and feeling the bag to find the figs I wanted. I hadn't realized how faint the dots were so I almost thought that case was defective. Toys R Us had the price $4 per minifig, but I ended getting them for $3 each, since they were having a buy 1 get one 50% off.
I got lucky and found an elf almost right away. I al
