The Agrinautica

   About two weeks ago in Physics 137 (Nuclear Weapons) we were given a test so hard that 71% of everyone that took it FAILED. The teacher, everyone's favorite Dane, Professor Jenson, categorically refused to curve the test, preserving the failures for all time. He maintained that the class as a whole had been criminally unprepared. To rectify this situation however, he did declare that there would be another midterm, of equal difficulty and scope on 11/13/02 (tomarrow), for which we had best be better prepared for. Consequently I have not had time to write lj entries and even now time is at an extreme premium.

Berkeley - The House of Moral Depravity
   Last Friday Kristy and I ended up going down to Berkeley to visit my brother nibot and our friend roxymartini at the "moral depravity" theme co-op.
   True to its name, we were traumatized by such things as a hot tub full of naked people, a couple attempting to commit sexual acts in the room Kristy and I were supposed to sleep in, and rumours and implications of the activities of my brother. We did however survive, and I'd like to express our gratitude for the hospitality of the friendly deviants that live there.
   The next day Kristy and I wandered around telegraph in the pouring rain (pouring rain = a good thing), ate $1 naan bread, became an official couple, and other such pleasant activities.


   Saturday our Model UN club at Davis had our "crash course in chairing" to train people to be chairs at the Contra Costa County HS MUN Conference we are chairing this weekend. I taught the workshop on "how to score" of course.

   Tobin came to Davis today and ran off with my car. Such a troll.

More Professor Quotes
   "I was comfortably emersed in my nuclear weapons before you did that!" -Professor Jenson, after someone took a photograph of him, causing him to lose his train of thought.
   "We have words for people that will not make any exceptions to rules at all... ...assholes" -Professor Becker, while explaining Formalism, Rule Skepticism, Open Texture of the Law, and other such philosophies on whether rules may have "exceptions not exhaustively specified in advance."

   What I learned in school today:

   "Nuclear war? WAY high on the avoid list" -Professor Gartner, POL121 (War)
   "whenever we [UCD army ROTC] transport weapons we're required to have an armed guard with them in case we get ambushed or something, so one of the officers rides in back with them. My only problem though is that they only give us five rounds of ammunition. What the heck am I supposed to do with THAT??" -Captain Bicknell, MSC11 (Army Organization)
   "when you start incinerating people, partial credit is not an option" -Professor Jenson, PHY137 (Nuclear Weapons & Controls)

   Tiger Army, Rancid, and Nekromantix show tomarrow. Further Seems Forever today. Croat (inequity) and Anna (beatlebake) will be here sometime this evening. Me = very busy.

   My uncle deviously isolated the problem on my hard disk via partitioning that part off, so my computer will finally be returned to me sometime this evening, with 90% of its hard disk intact, 0% of its previous memory (::sniff::) and windows xp (yay!).