Questions of the ages
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torquillIf any plan where you end up with Rice Krispie treats is a good plan, and any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan, what is it if there's a plan which involves exchanging your hat for Rice Krispie treats?
I remembered to take my bike to Davis, I bought my train ticket, I bought my book, and I looked up the classroom number well before I needed it. I also took a little time to buy a cupholder for my bike and put it on... which unearthed yet another reason why to avoid the Bike Barn.
I didn't feel up to biking all the way across downtown to Ken's, though I had the time, so I went to the Bike Barn at the center of campus instead. They had chromed steel cupholders for $6, which is what I remember paying for my last one. I had enough presence of mind, when the total came up $7.60, to ask, "Weren't those $6?" The guy explained that their prices went up by a dollar (across the board, I guess?) at the start of the new year, and not all the tags reflected it yet. It was only a buck, and I didn't have the energy to argue the point or go elsewhere... but I was not impressed. Not updating the tags on the main wall to reflect a price increase that happened six months ago fits right in with the higher cost and poorer service of the Bike Barn. I think I'll take the hit to my wallet and go to Freewheeler if I can't make it to Ken's next time.
The first prof for my class was okay (what is it about co-teaching claases at Davis?) He seems cheerful and good-natured, which is a plus. The course itself seems surprisingly basic, a combo of plant anatomy and plant development, both of which I aced without too much trouble... if it doesn't get much more difficult, I'll cruise right through it. I'm trying to make sure I do the reading, though, as it could be one of those where it's bad if you slip.
Overall, not bad, though if the book (and correspondingly the professor) doesn't stop using equations with related variables lifted from two different environments without some way to tell them apart, I'm going to bludgeon something. W equals S plus P, but S and P are defined for both the solution and the interior of the cell floating in it; is S the one for the solution, or the one for the cell? What about P? (Turns out it's one of each.) Give me subscripts, superscripts, primes, noughts, stars, anything! Hell, I'd settle for yellow moons and green clovers, I'm not picky.
I like this "afternoons and evenings free" thing. I have to go back tomorrow morning, but that's then. Right now I've eaten, and I think I may go to the supermarket to pick up some marshmallows and Rice Krispies. That sounds like a Good Plan.
I remembered to take my bike to Davis, I bought my train ticket, I bought my book, and I looked up the classroom number well before I needed it. I also took a little time to buy a cupholder for my bike and put it on... which unearthed yet another reason why to avoid the Bike Barn.
I didn't feel up to biking all the way across downtown to Ken's, though I had the time, so I went to the Bike Barn at the center of campus instead. They had chromed steel cupholders for $6, which is what I remember paying for my last one. I had enough presence of mind, when the total came up $7.60, to ask, "Weren't those $6?" The guy explained that their prices went up by a dollar (across the board, I guess?) at the start of the new year, and not all the tags reflected it yet. It was only a buck, and I didn't have the energy to argue the point or go elsewhere... but I was not impressed. Not updating the tags on the main wall to reflect a price increase that happened six months ago fits right in with the higher cost and poorer service of the Bike Barn. I think I'll take the hit to my wallet and go to Freewheeler if I can't make it to Ken's next time.
The first prof for my class was okay (what is it about co-teaching claases at Davis?) He seems cheerful and good-natured, which is a plus. The course itself seems surprisingly basic, a combo of plant anatomy and plant development, both of which I aced without too much trouble... if it doesn't get much more difficult, I'll cruise right through it. I'm trying to make sure I do the reading, though, as it could be one of those where it's bad if you slip.
Overall, not bad, though if the book (and correspondingly the professor) doesn't stop using equations with related variables lifted from two different environments without some way to tell them apart, I'm going to bludgeon something. W equals S plus P, but S and P are defined for both the solution and the interior of the cell floating in it; is S the one for the solution, or the one for the cell? What about P? (Turns out it's one of each.) Give me subscripts, superscripts, primes, noughts, stars, anything! Hell, I'd settle for yellow moons and green clovers, I'm not picky.
I like this "afternoons and evenings free" thing. I have to go back tomorrow morning, but that's then. Right now I've eaten, and I think I may go to the supermarket to pick up some marshmallows and Rice Krispies. That sounds like a Good Plan.
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Date: 2007-06-26 06:23 (UTC)You're making me very hungry for rice krispie treats...
*drools*