Thursday, May 15, 2014

Jewelry Nowadays

I though this was a weird appearance for a make your own bracelets kit....

Are you all doing okay, Claire's product namers? Perhaps you need a quick break? Some fresh air? A dictionary??? I don't know about you, but that looks like a scarf to me...

Sunday, April 27, 2014

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While looking for more information about an upcoming school trip, I found this horrendous typo that's so bad I almost think it was intentional.
Look at this:

From: http://www.musicfestivalstoyou.com/gurnee.html
I mean, it take more than a slip of a finger to type an "i"with a diaeresis (that's the two dots), inverted question mark, and a fraction instead of an apostrophe and an "s", right?
Now I'm curious about what really happened. Conspiracy theories and all other suggestions are welcome!

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Möbius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 7 --Poultry, Procrastination, and a Proof

"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."

WILDLIFE
This week marks the beginning of a new cumulative-poultry consumption observation process by local birds. "During this time, the amount of bird products consumed by each barbarian human will be recorded in the databases of our flat-screen supercomputers," a nearby grackle cawed menacingly at a Möbius reporter in the wee hours of the morning. "All those who exceed the maximum consumption will be promptly punished for their sins against Aves! Cower in fear, puny humans!" Residents of the surrounding area reported being awakened early in the morning by sqwak-ing birds, having unusually large amounts of bird excrement on their car windows, and being afflicted by the traditional sneezing and-coughing dust spread by vengeful birds at the conclusions of observation periods. However, bribes of Raspberry Pi(s), Arduinos, and SD cards have been proven to significantly decrease the number of consequences experienced by eaters of eggs and bird meat. To bribe your neighborhood birds, simply deposit the bribe in any nearby bird's nest.
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EDUCATION
Judges at a nationwide science fair competition for students have adopted the habit of procrastination common among the contestants. "I know the results were supposed to come out like two days ago, but come on, they can wait for another couple of days! I deserve a break, man 'cuz I looked at the first two pages of this one yesterday! I'll do it- but not now,"claimed one judge before turning back to his game of throwing virtual birds at structurally unsound buildings. 
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Local teacher secretly hungry, students say. "She's, like making so many references to food," said one student. "If you're hungry, then just, like, use your calculator to call the school black market and get some zip-tab coconuts or something. Everyone knows that!"
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State decides not to fund testing for science and math. Instead, the Bored of Education, presumably somewhat bored with education, prompted the state to pay for end of course tests for the Introduction to Modern Metalworking (often referred to as Tin for the New Millennium) and Chair Studies classes.
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Bizarre new proof for E=mc2 introduced by a middle school math teacher. When asked for a summary, she told Möbius reporters that it "involves a complex diagram with a circle" and that she was "inspired by ClipArt." Mathematicians city-wide are possibly currently examining her work.
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WENDY'S RECIPES
Tartar Sauce and Fish Sandwich
First, get some magnesium sulfate and tartaric acid. Then mix them together, adhering to standard chemistry safety procedures. Allow the resulting solution to evaporate and form crystals. Next, take your microscope and examine the crystals and find one or maybe a couple thousand that resemble a fish, depending on whether or not you supersaturated the solution. Finally, scrape off the crystal(s) and put it between two pieces of bread.
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WENDY'S EQUATIONS
Student + dying == Studying
Combination + permutation == Communist nation
Marshmallow + bath == Math
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RF'S DATING TIPS
"With these tips, you'll never not get not rejected!"
Asking someone on a date:
1. Buy a date fruit.
2. Approach the person you wish to ask on a date.
3. Place date on floor.
4. Step on date. Be sure not to cover up more than half of the date!
5. Ask the other person to step on the date as well. If he or she is reluctant, say that it's for science.
6. Repeat until the answer is yes.
7. Tell everyone you went on a date with that person.
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Asking someone out:
1. Make sure that both you and the person you're asking are indoors.
2. Do something that causes the indoors to become very uncomfortable. 
3. Mention the discomfort to the person.
4. Ask, "Do you want to go outside with me?" or something along those lines.
5. If person does not say yes, make the room even more uncomfortable.
6. Repeat until the other person says yes or you're both dead.
7.Tell everyone you went out with that person. (assuming you're not dead)

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Both?

I considered writing about civil engineering for my research paper, and as I was looking for information, I ran across this curious description...


Apparently, work is simultaneously mostly indoors AND mostly outdoors. Go figure...

Sunday, March 23, 2014

So Bad It's Good?

I ran across this online review today....

Five stars for not receiving the product you thought you'd receive?

Maybe the customer thought the picture was bad? Or perhaps he or she for some reason thought that the stars rating system is like the Science Olympiad scoring system, in which the winner receives the least points?

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Too Easy

Yet more math class wisdom.
 We were working a problem from an AMC 10 test yesterday, and I saw this response.


This is seriously sometimes actually a good way to know if your answer is wrong, though!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

The Foolproof Answer

My father signed me up for an online math class without explicitly telling me until roughly an hour before the class began. Somewhat surprisingly, it was okay, and I think I may have even discovered the foolproof answer to everything. Not 42, for you Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reader(s).

BEHOLD





Wednesday, March 12, 2014

More Books

While writing the script for the play to be featured on this blog, I encountered an unexpected case of writer's block. Because of this, I would like to tell you about two interesting books I found while researching content for the play.
In case you can't read upside-down letters, it says "NSA Family Encyclopedia"

1. NSA Family Encyclopedia- I'm pretty sure this isn't actually from the NSA, but the book never tells you what NSA stands for, which is pretty suspicious in itself. But then when you turn to the second page, it says this:

Dun dun dun.

2. First Grade Reading Textbook- This textbook is for the most part  a normal reading textbook. But then, there is a piece of music in there that is comparable to the French Horn parts of the music played by Symphonic Band. I mean, look at it! It has THREE sharps in its key signature! And this is a FIRST GRADE TEXTBOOK! Music education these days!

Sure, first graders should get harder music than middle schoolers. 

Webkinz-Runescape Crossover?

Sorry, there are two Whimsy Dragon pictures. I can't do anything about it since the Whimsy Dragon pictures don't show up at all when I try to edit the post. Just bear with it.

After the mysterious Webkinz tag was found by me, I went on my Webkinz account and discovered that the Webkinz Travel agency had been removed from the game. Along with the removal of the need for buying tickets to the island thingy and the entire Webkinz spa, the Whimsy Dragon travel agency clerk( I can't remember her name) was also removed.
  
On Runescape recently, the quest One of a Kind was released. With this update, Celestial Dragons were released. 
I noticed that the Whimsy Dragons and the Celestial Dragons slightly resembled each other, and this gave me an idea for a crossover fanfiction, where the former clerk of the Webkinz Travel Agency was actually removed because she was sucked into Runescape and became either a Celestial Dragon or a pink Dragonkin*. However, unlike Connor, I do not feel that I  currently have the writing capability to write a good Runescape fanfiction. If any of you wants to borrow the idea and can submit a decent rough draft to me, I will let you have the idea. If not, then I will keep this idea for later.

See? They both have blue spots, a somewhat pink color, and sort-of similar paws.
Celestial dragon
Celestial Dragon













Whimsy Dragon
* The identity of a Dragonkin is a possibility since the abbreviation of Webkinz is Kinz, and assuming that Kinz is a plural noun, the singular form of Kinz is Kin. Kin has been used as an abbreviation for Dragonkin by the Runescape staff before, so the draconic travel clerk could be both a Webkinz and a Dragonkin. See? It all adds up.

Möbius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 6 -- Batteries, Blood Clots, and Chairs

"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."


EDUCATION
Determined student returns to school only a day after coma and is injured once again. School officials are suspiciously oblivious.
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Middle school students are preparing for a prestigious science competition. One particularly popular event is the new "Shove Ping Pong Balls and Batteries Into a Plastic Bag Tied to a Robot" marathon. We spoke to one student, asking him about this wonderfully educational event. "DON'T STEP ON ANYTHING! Oh, and yeah, I really like this event," he told us as he triumphantly deposited a battery into the plastic bag on his team's robot. "Our robot has a 100% success rate, especially when I get to push the things into the bag! When I don't get to push the things in, it still has a 100% success rate 40% of the time!". The competition will be in about a month and a half.
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Missing a substitute teacher, the middle school Geometry class descends to Lord of the Flies-esque chaos.
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HEALTH
Local researchers have unexpectedly discovered that school hallways are an excellent model of blood clots. Plans are being made to bring medical students to observe the circulation of people in various middle and high schools.
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SPORTS
School officials have announced a new sport to be played in all schools in the hopes of reducing childhood obesity. "We plan to, like, have these new chairs and, y'know, have kids sit in them and ummm.....Oh, looks like I have to go!" stated a school board official  before running out of the room when asked for details about the new sport.