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Monday, May 3, 2004 (4 comments)

Calculations show that I need an 89.33 average on the three remaining paper grades (research paper, speech analysis) to get an A in that class... and considering that my papers have been 70, 75, 56 this semester... that is GAY.

Good luck to people taking stat tomorrow. I'm kind of mad at stupid Adams teaching that class because it's really so easy, yet everyone complains about it. Someone needs to get him kicked.

Which reminds me, there were no stat questions in the 11 rounds we played, but 3 in the final 3 rounds that we watched. And no one knew them! Free points...

If Ronjon scored 600 on the math portion of the SAT I and this is one standard deviation above the mean, then what percentile was his score?

If you couldn't figure out within 0.5 seconds that it's 84th percentile, then you're screwed on that test tomorrow (you'll get a dash or a 1). The only guess between the two teams was "67 percent," which isn't even in the correct format. So if you did know that, consider yourself better than the #2 and #3 ranked teams of national science bowl. Ok, not really, they just happen to not know stat.

11:20PM

I hate people. The Quotes page also owns.

Thursday

We got on a plane, slept, got on a bus, slept, came to the room and unpacked, went outside, and owned everyone in frisbee. Then after owning some more, we went on gay tours around DC and the bus decided to drive off and leave us stranded for half an hour. Then we practiced until about 1AM.

Oh, and the trip here was worth it even without the actual competition. We each got a free 175 gram real frisbee that says National Science Bowl on it, has stuff like PV=nRT, and is white indoors but turns purple in the sun. Mrs. Dutter got one, too.

At night, after the last event of the day, there were refreshments. Everyone knew I would need Coke for the tournament Sunday, so we stole many cans of Coke. We ended up with 9 cans after drinking some.

Friday

We went to the National Air & Space Museum and walked around and killed people in frisbee. We came back and went to a seminar with a guy doing stupid things with liquid nitrogen like nail a nail into a wooden board with a frozen banana. Then my mom showed up and made me take a picture with her.

They didn't have any canned drinks this night, so we couldn't steal much Coke. But Gene got 12 Snickers bars, Ronjon got 11 Snickers and chips and bags of popcorn and stuff, and Dragos and I got some too. A Coke was used though, so we were reduced to 8.

We practiced and talked about obscene things until like 1:45AM, and security told us to shut up and be quiet. The guard interrupted Gene's yelling of "THAT'S A LOT OF GASM!" after I went to the bathroom to piss while on the phone with Tricia.

Saturday

After waking up at 12 and eating lunch, I watched Ronjon walk into the bathroom and drop his bag with his toothbrush, contact solution, contacts, deodorant, glasses case, toothpaste, and stuff into the toilet.

At night, we watched Thomas Jefferson play questions among themselves and really suck. They couldn't name the simple machines. So then we asked them to play a round with us, and this one girl killed us. But considering the expected raping, we did pretty well. The first round, when we played as teams, ended about 80-100, so really not too bad.

I drew eggs for the round-robin preliminary rounds and got us into the same division as a team that has been champions and qualified six times as well as another team that has qualified nine times. That's one more than Thomas Jefferson. Deadly. Only the top two teams from each division advance, so things looked pretty bad at this point.

Sunday

I used around 7 cans (around 2.5 L) of Coke total today, and the others drank a lot too. I had to go pee at least 8 times today. That night around 8 PM, my stomach started to die due to gas buildup. Then I farted ~87 times while sitting between Dragos and Ronjon (Gene got lucky), and everything was better.

So at noon, we played this team Auburn that we should have destroyed. We lost by one or two questions, but during the second half, after we warmed up and the Coke effect started showing, we got 84 points to their 46. Next game was against the best team in our division, of course, Montgomery Blair. 4 Chinese guys, 1 Chinese alternate, 1 Chinese coach... yeah. They pulled away in the second half to beat us 202-110 or so. During this round, the ever-encouraging Dutter was asked if she would like to move to where she could see the scoreboard, and she replied "No, I don't need to see the score," though she was not keeping score, either.

We beat everyone else in the round-robin, with the highlight occurring at the end against JR Masterman, at a score of 202-24.

After dinner, our first double elimination round went pretty badly. We lost 64-62. That made us (at least me, anyways) mad and so our next opponent felt our wrath and got raped 120-16.

According to our very friendly state coordinator who owns, Westminster (who won in 1995 or near then) is the only Georgia team who has gotten to play on Monday. Not even Parkview =)

Monday

The worst mistake I made, other than sucking at early interrupts, was using less that one can of Coke. I'd say that's a tactical error.

First game (#3 double elimination) was very close, with the game swinging back and forth at the end with a period T approximately equal to 1 minute. We happened to be up a little at the end.

Second game was against a bunch of Smoky Hill asses, even their coach. When we walked into the room, the first thing she said to me was "hey, we didn't expect to see you here!" Oh my hell, if I didn't have to look proper in a freaking suit, she'd be dead. Ronjon was even closer to pwning her.

Then there was a question which was read as "what is the form of benzene..." instead of "what is the formula of benzene..." and Smoky Hill said C₆H₆, which, of course, should be correct. But we protested because he read the question wrong, making the correct answer closer to "ring" or something similar instead of the formula. Assreader refused our protest, and we lost by a tossup and a bonus.

So we lost, and I don't exactly think we lost fairly on the last one. But then again, if I had not incorrectly interrupted so many times, we would have raped every single game (except the 6 Chinese guys) by at least 50.

Now the funny thing is, the game we lost 64-62 was against the team that finished second overall. We could and should have beat them, and it was down to one last bonus. We were not worse than them. Next year, we'll be champs or you'll have my brains for dinner that Monday night.

During the final roll call in the auditorium, when Taylor Alderdice was called, one guy went "SKEET SKEET!!!" and everyone burst. That was awesome.

Then we got interviewed by CBS, and I took the worst pounding because I was nervous and didn't know what to say. So you guys get to watch me make a fool of myself on TV =)

We found some nametags for Smoky Hill (like 6 of them). Ronjon has a paintball gun, and Dutter has darts.

On the way back, Dragos and I witnessed teleportation in action. In fact, we were teleported. At Hartsfield (or whatever gay name it has now), we couldn't find The Judge, which was checked in for the flight from DC. So Dutter went to complain about this slightly after I saw 7:28, 7:29, and 7:30 on the airport clock. After being led into another room, led in circles, and talking to at least two other airport officials, we headed out to the Dutters' car. By the time the luggage was in the trunk and we were in the seats, it had to have been at least 7:45-7:50. I fell asleep just before we got on the interstate, so that would be about 7:50-7:55. When I woke up on Roswell Road, it was 8:08. Teleportation? Yes.

There's SO much more to tell... but it'd take me until next year to write it all out.

10:12PM

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