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[ToonyMan]

Probably going to watch some Fairy Tail and Monster today for my free time.

[ein]

Veterans Day~!  I'm free all day!

[Duke 2.0]

To move the topic away from eugenics/racism, I'm finding some really neat textbooks online.

As in for sale online or available online? It would be spiffy to find some biology, programming or creative writing textbooks online for free.

And no day off for me, although I'll likely wear my brothers BDU and give a salute to the stars and stripes in the front of the house. Too bad when I return it'll be like 8:30 pm and the streetlight out fornt is busted.

[Realmfighter]

Heh

[ToonyMan]

Haiz Duuuke~~~~

[Cthulhu]

Playing SWAT 4.  I don't remember it being this hard.  I'm on the third mission and I keep getting around a 70.

[Duke 2.0]

Haiz Duuuke~~~~

This is a school computer, so don't get the idea that I'm avoiding you here. And my professor is having us do... stuff I don't fully understand and won' fully explain 'till she randomly wanders over here.
 Screw this project.

[Vector]

To move the topic away from eugenics/racism, I'm finding some really neat textbooks online.

Also, I will soon be returning to Berkeley, so you guys will no longer have to bear the brunt of my love for mathematics.

Dare I say it... my calculust.

As in for sale online or available online? It would be spiffy to find some biology, programming or creative writing textbooks online for free.

For sale, but if you want programming, I strongly suggest using this text.  Some of its exercises are probably too challenging for someone without a very strong mathematical background (as I personally discovered), but other than that it is excellent.

Oddly enough, a lot of mathematicians are into the "free all information!!" movement, so if you ever want a math textbook I can probably hook you up with something.  I'm just surfing Amazon for Order Theory textbooks--and failing, but I have found some neat stuff on Modal Theory, Topology, and Real Analysis.

[ToonyMan]

When do colleges give students class off?

Is the answer never?  Sounds like never.  Maybe summer.

[Duke 2.0]

Dare I say it... my calculust.

Dammit my snicker almost got me caught here. Then I remembered that she really doesn't care.

[ToonyMan]

Lust should teach your class.

[Ottofar]

My electricity seems to have calmed down a bit.

[Heron TSG]

I'm happy that I wrote a story that grabs people, or at least a people. I'm in a course about writing so that people remember what I say and are better affected by it (English 102), so it's nice to see that my writing is getting better.

I really don't like sports, but your story was gripping. Congrats!

Spoiler: For Added Context (click to show/hide)

I got some pictures from the State meet last Saturday, so in the future it's likely there will be not-running pictures of me, but here are a few more.


Before the start, we meet up in our snazzy new running clothes. On the left is the 1st ranked team, on the right is the 3rd ranked team. We are ranked fourth, but we're ready to prove some people wrong. I'm on the left side of the circle, but you can't see me very well.


Having spoken to each other about plans and ideas, along with a few jokes, we warm up a bit to prevent early cramps and pains. Alongside the start there are nearly five thousand spectators, with more further along the course. Cameras flash like ephemeral stars, and the cheers are thunderous. I'm second from the right.


Nearly one hundred and fifty runners take off from the line. No race is won at the the start, but this time is different. If you start too far back, you'll never make it where you want to, there are just too many people. The start is a sprinting jumble of humanity, and it remains that way until the first mile. My mile split was 5:20, faster than I had thought possible, but I was in 74th. I was running the pace of the fastest man on our team, and I was still farther back than I wanted to be. Having taken the first mile 'easy', I pass a multitude of spent runners that ran the first mile too fast. At mile two, my time is 11:15. This is thirty seconds faster than ever before, and I begin to worry if I can keep up the pace, but I can't slow down. If I do, my gains in the past mile will be lost. I push ahead and I reach where I wanted to be, 60th. Eight hundred meters later, I pass the 6th runner on our team. I'm usually our 7th. Seeing the turn ahead, I think that I have only a couple hundred meters to go, and start speeding up more. Rounding the turn, I see that I have half a mile left to run, but I can't take back what energy I've spent. I hold on to my pace, hoping that I can keep it up. I pass other runners that, seeing the false finish, also ran too quickly. Two hundred meters to go and I can see the finish, but I can't run any faster, my legs just won't listen. Suddenly, I stumble on a small hillock, and have to run faster to avoid falling on my face. Somehow, my momentum keeps me moving this speed until I cross the line, ending in 45th, 20 places ahead of where I was expected to be, at a time of 17:52.


We got second in the end. It wasn't quite what we wanted but still a good place for having been written off as 'not a threat' on the Coaches' Poll at the season's dawn.

[Realmfighter]

Dear god short shorts.

[Argembarger]

.17 WAS RELEASED

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH