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| Originally published at ebroder.net. Please leave any comments there. Intelligent Design Struck Down
"Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.
From CNN.com.
There may yet be hope for seperation of church and state. | | |
| Originally published at ebroder.net. Please leave any comments there. MIT Deferral Letter
After over a week, my letter finally showed up.
It's actually a rather disappointing letter. Very short. Although I guess that Deferrals/Rejections are by nature.
In other news, I wrote a plugin last night to crosspost entries to LiveJournal. So those of you that use LJ and Xanga are now free to bury your heads in the sand of the special little communities that Xanga and LJ like to form.
You still have to come to my site to post, though. | | |
| Originally published at ebroder.net. Please leave any comments there. New Dishes
Yes, damnit, I am going to get my money's worth out of Flickr Pro. And Mom's Nikon D50 is just fun to use.
So, since I was 5, we've been using some cheap plates and bowls that we bought from McDonald's/off the back of a Kellogg's cerial box. To shamelessly copy from the description I wrote on Flickr, they are combination of the $5 sets you buy from McDonalds and the $5 sets you order off the back of a Kellog's box. We've been using these since I was like 5. Finally gave up on them after they started cracking in the microwave.
There are also plates with Hercules, Meg, Zeus, Phil, and the Muses, and the bowls included Tony the Tiger and the Corn Flakes chicken, whatever it's called.
So finally, after they started cracking in the microwave, we upgraded! We now have some spiffy new black dishes (see Figure 2).
Our mason has started rebuilding the wall, as well. Unfortunately they covered it with some towels to dry before I could get a photo.
I would also like to note that I still have not yet gotten an actual letter from MIT. | | |
| Originally published at ebroder.net. Please leave any comments there. The Problem with LinuxThe problem with having multiple Linux servers:
You spend 15 minutes trying to get something working on one, and all of a sudden you realize that you've been remotely accessing the other the whole time. | | |
| Originally published at ebroder.net. Please leave any comments there. Feeds and XangasSo I finished my Stanford application around 11:30 CST, submitting it with about 2 hours to spare. I was actually surprisingly satisfied with my essays, but on the whole, I don't think the application did a good job of talking about computer stuff. The long essay was a gush-fest about JCL, and the short essays talked about peer tutoring, the philosophy of math, and jumping Avram's car---basically an adaptation of an earlier blog entry (yes, I am rather link happy today :)).
So I now find myself with 3 essays, 2 applications, and 1 supplemental letter between myself and being done with this whole damn processes. To be more specific, I have 2 essays for Caltech, 1 for Carnegie Mellon, write a supplemental letter to MIT begging them to accept me (I'm giving serious consideration to sending some of Mom's brownies with it). And I'll go ahead and submit my UTK application too.
I should offer my congratulations for Zach Fenno (accepted to Brown), and for Xue and Christine (Stanford), and my condolences to all of the other people who were deferred or rejected.
In other news, I have new plugin that automatically copies any posts on my site to Xanga, so those of you that have had subscriptions to my Xanga for a year and a half will now actually see some action.
Still trying to find a functional LiveJournal crossposter.
Next order of business: feeds. I've getting an awful lot of hits to the Atom and RSS feeds on the site. I don't know if they're from Technorati-type services, search engines, or what, but I'm trying to track them down. If you use the one of the feeds to read my blog, please leave a comment and let me know.
In other news, part of our wall fell down. This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, but I've decided that I should put some photos up just for fun. | | |
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