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Graduation Rehearsals

Published on June 2, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 45 Comments
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Graduation rehearsals, yeah! We had our second one today, and like the first rehearsal, waiting for everyone to walk down the aisles and onto the stage took seemingly forever, and then we sang the same song over and over again for about thirty times. Fun.

Secrecy (on the APs)

Published on May 21, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 54 Comments
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Anyone who has taken an AP exam probably knows about the whole “use these labels to seal your booklet” thing they make you do at the end of the exam. I always thought it was kinda weird; after all, the only time I’ve ever had to seal an exam booklet was on the APs.

Today I took the AP Calculus BC exam on the alternate exam date, and apparently because College Board doesn’t publish the stuff from alternate exam dates, we were told not to discuss any of the questions ever. Ever! Very suspicious… although I will abide by it, because they might assassinate me or something. Or maybe just cancel my scores. But that’s still bad. (also, the contents of “question five” in the daily flash were made up, not an actual question from the test)

Oh, and that new character introduced in today’s daily flash won’t be appearing in another daily flash ever again.

Webfilters

Published on May 19, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 51 Comments
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Webfilters! They are quite annoying especially when you have to do research on a potentially controversial topic in school. Or I guess if you just want to play games, or in some instances, browse this website (it’s blocked at my school for being a “social networking / personal site” or something similar). Interestingly enough, pixiv is blocked at my school, yet Twitter isn’t. How the heck does that even happen?

I guess everyone at school uses Facebook or MySpace or something, so there probably aren’t many people going on Twitter. But I’m sure even less people at school go on pixiv (or even know what it is), so I’m surprised it’s blocked. Anyway, yeah. The daily flash itself isn’t that great, but it does serve as a conversation tool! The topic of discussion is your experience with webfilters! Go!

In related news, I totally made up that “Weblock” thing and the logo, and I thought it was clever because it can be “lock” or “block”! But unsurprisingly, weblock turns out to be a real thing. Maybe not exactly a webfilter, but similar.

Gerrymandering

Published on April 28, 2009 in Daily flash. 37 Comments
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Here is a more detailed explanation of what gerrymandering is. The “salamander” shaped district (which the term was partly named after) looks more like a vulture to me, but gerryvulturing doesn’t sound as cool, I guess. Also, I don’t particularly know where I was going with this daily flash; all I knew is that I wanted to make another one of those video game battle scene things, because those are cool.

Photoelectric Effect

Published on April 21, 2009 in Daily flash and Touhou. 35 Comments
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I really do spend too much time writing these fake newspaper articles. But it’s fun, so that’s fine. Also, if I hadn’t decided to make this daily flash, I would not have looked up the photoelectric effect on Wikipedia and I would not have known that it was discovered by Heinrich Hertz, who has a nifty SI unit named after him.

They probably stopped calling it the Hertz effect because then there would be two things named after him, which we all know can’t ever happen because it’s completely impossible. Or maybe because “photoelectric effect” is a name that actually says something the effect itself, rather than about the person who discovered it. Because it has to do with photons which are part of electromagnetic radiation.