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School Surveys

Published on April 6, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 35 Comments
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Today we had to do one of those Department of Education surveys about our school experience, with a bunch of opinion-based questions (although some of them weren’t based on opinion, like what grade you were in or what classes you’re taking). And it was kinda interesting that we were asking each other what we put down for certain questions as if it were a test of some sort. Of course, if it were a real test, we wouldn’t be allowed to talk or else it would be seen as cheating, but yeah. Taking the survey reminded me of how my school doesn’t really have too many options for the classes we choose to take, but I guess that’s another issue.

Taxes

Published on March 31, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 24 Comments
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This is perhaps the one of the most uninteresting things that I can ever make a daily flash about. I don’t know why, but I thought taxes might make an interesting daily flash. I spent some time thinking how I could possibly make this interesting, and then eventually I came to the realization that income taxes can never be interesting or fun. But here are some interesting tax-related quotes, and here are some interesting tax-related… tax deductions.

Anyway, the reason for this daily flash is that today in school, we had a guest speaker from the tax preparation company H&R Block who came in and taught us about filing income taxes (in addition to advertising the company), since we would have to do it eventually. I learned a lot more than I knew before (I knew almost nothing about taxes), but I also learned that filling out those tax forms in the future won’t be very fun at all. But then we got free H&R Block post-its, pamphlets, and pens, which I guess is pretty cool. But not really.

Mathletics

Published on March 26, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 44 Comments
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Ah, mathletics. A clever portmanteau of the words “math” and “athletics” despite the fact that it’s not really very related to athletics. My school doesn’t have “mathletics” competitions (but it does have clubs based on math competitions like AMC), and I don’t actually know if any school actually uses the word “mathletics.” I just saw a sign at school with the word “athletics,” which came right after some other word ending with an M, and it sorta looked like the word “mathletics.” And that is the only reason why I made this daily flash. Well, besides the fact that having an actual math+athletics thing would be kinda cool to see.

Daylight Saving

Published on March 10, 2009 in Daily flash, Life and Touhou. 48 Comments
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I remember when I was little and believed that sounds could be captured in jars, because that’s what happened in cartoons. And then I was disappointed to find out it didn’t actually work.

Anyway, about daylight saving time… doesn’t anyone else find it annoying when you have to set the clock an hour back (in autumn), but you’re using a digital clock that doesn’t have an option to go back an hour, so you end up pressing the button 23 times to go forward 23 hours? And it’s even worse when the clock has a 12-hour mode and a 24-hour mode, because then you have to go forward 47 hours to actually go backward 1 hour. Well, I guess at least you get an extra hour to press those buttons all those times. I’m not sure if anyone understands that, but it makes perfect sense to me.

It must be pretty bad to work in a place that sells clocks, and you have to change them all yourself. But then I guess you could just leave it as it is, and let the customers deal with it when they buy one. Anyway, that whole thing about going back an hour doesn’t really apply to this recent clock-changing, since we went forward an hour. I should stop typing now before this becomes an essay about the faults of daylight saving time.

Laser eye surgery

Published on March 5, 2009 in Daily flash, Life and Touhou. 57 Comments
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This is how it happened, and why she is able to do that. This description is very vague. Also, while making this daily flash, I did some research online on how laser eye surgery is actually done, and uhh… I found out that it involves more than just shooting lasers. Oh, and now I just remembered how I got the idea for this… it had something to do with a discussion about papercuts… in eyes. Agh. That would hurt.