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Side Effects

Published on June 4, 2009 in Daily flash. 37 Comments
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Interestingly, there’s actually a Prescription Drug Name Generator (complete with randomly generated statistics and drug information). There’s a lot of random name/info generators for even the most obscure things, I guess. Anyway, I found a lot of the real side effects in the daily flash from a quick Google search, which is kinda scary because one of the sites I found had like a really really long list of maybe around a hundred side effects. But yeah, it’s weird that some things really do have so many side effects.

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.

Birds

Published on May 22, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 43 Comments
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I remember there being at least two instances in which I have seen a bird fly into a building through a window. Probably more, but I can only remember two right now. One of them was about two summers ago, when one flew into a computer center and kept trying to fly out the closed window even though the door leading outside was open.

The other time was today, in the middle of the AP physics exam. Which is strange because the windows had gratings with very little space for things to go through. The bird (a sparrow; probably not of the night variety) also left through the grating, after flying into the closed window several times. No one screamed and flapped their arms like in the daily flash, but needless to say, it was quite distracting. It was brought up later (online) that the bird could have been spying on the super-secretive AP exam, gathering information about the questions to give back to test prep companies… who knows.

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.