I thought I read once that Antarctica was considered a desert because its precipitation levels were so low. (the snow doesn't melt, therefore it doesn't go through the water cycle and precipitate!) Or maybe that was the Arctic. Or Siberia. Hmm.
There's the page that details the last launches in case you wanted to take the chance and see one. I've never seen one yet, but I'd like to. *gotta hurry*
I wouldn't call Discworld very sciencey at all, but I did enjoy them when I was 12 inspite of not getting the jokes. Mort, Nightwatch, The Truth, and Soul Music are easy enough to enjoy for themselves, but Wyrd Sisters requires reading some basic Shakespeare to really get into, for example.
The Young Wizards series is rather more sciencey than fantasy and I ate it up readily.
If they like star wars, then get them just about any of those. I went in for two of the han solo trilogies (Daley and Crispin). The latter might have more yuck romancin', but it reads a lot more easily than the former, which is closer akin to the old school sci-fi.
Speaking of old school, you know you could throw Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan) at them. It's close enough to being an alien world, or so I thought. Or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Jurassic Park was well thumbed also. I definitely read it more often than I watched the movie, and more Crichton couldn't hurt. Andromeda Strain, Timeline, etc
I'm getting off-base with science fiction here I guess; they might be sciency and be fiction, but they're not set in far off astroworlds, but I'll just go one step further and recommend the Dirk Pitt books by Clive Cussler. They're practically made for young boys (and tomgirls). My classmates and I pretty much ate them up during 6-8th grades. You might just find yourself laden with a couple of marine biologists afterwards.
I loved learning french in high school, and eagerly took two semesters of it this year in the place that english would've been (thank you AP), but unless I'm working with the ESA on something, I don't think there's much call for it in the mechanical/aerospace engineering world:|
(not to mention the course load doesn't leave the time to persue it any further, except during summer)
That's not to say you should give up learning a foreign language, but I don't think it would be so worth the time as putting your effort into another, more relevant field.
16.7 percent of Firefox users still continue to access the Web with an outdated version of the browser,
Computer labs. You have admins who set up the lab, turn on the security camera and leave the computers for the year, basically. The one in my dorm was running 2.0.3 last I checked(two months ago), the one in the engineering building was 2.12 (two months ago), and the one in france was also 2.12 I think. (couple of weeks ago).
Unless you carry a portable firefox around with you like I do sometimes (but rarely used because those computers are slow enough without having to wait to mount a usb drive), then you're subject to the whims and schedule of your updater.
If your MBP is anything like mine, a few hours^H^H^H^H^H minutes of full screen brightness, default fan speed, and CS3 on a fabricky surface should do the trick.
Luckily the numerals 0, 8 and 5 are three of five that look exactly the same even upside down in liquid crystal notation.
You can continue to turn your calculator 180 degrees, but why bother when you can be reaching into your pants. . . Or wherever mathnerds reach:O (inside of gabriel's horn moarlike)
My university physics professors wrote the course guide and lab manual for the UPII course and it was some of the best stuff ever. They got a grant from the NSF to do it, according to the cover.
(however, the UPI class required a ridiculous prepublication book which was terrible reading and not even bound so you couldn't resell it)
What it should also do is have a basic microphone and software to recognize notes played so it can advance the music as you play! of course if you play it wrong you'll be out of luck, but you'll probably be stopping and starting anyways as you're probably just learning the music then.
That's because some people are interested in what will probably happen at that point. Weather patterns tend to repeat themselves year after year, so you can get a good average idea.
For example, in my hometown on a certain week of February, it usually goes up to 70 degrees for a few days. Someone from out of town probably wouldn't think to pack shorts for Arkansas in february, but they might end up wanting them.
Also, it has snowed on the same day in february almost every single year since 2002 (which was when I started counting, it might have been doing it before, I don't know xD).
There's nothing promising that the weather will do just that, but if you aren't familiar with a region, it's nice to have an idea of the recent year's trends.
But I always feel weird when this happens, because unless I check thoroughly, the original material will end up being the same thing. And I'm too lazy to check:(
but it's always a neat feeling when you see a phrase (or a book title) and feel like a world suddenly opened up where only you can see it.
well, funny you mention esperanto. The boat tours in Strasbourg offer it as an option on the audio guide:] (along with several other options, but it still made me giggle when I realized)
At the school I'm going to in France (part of the universite franche comte), they have ms products and their open source counterparts both installed on the school computers. Word and OO.O, IE (of course), and firefox. The only thing I haven't spotted yet is linux xD
My school in the US is headed that way; they have firefox installed on all the computers, but they haven't installed an ms word alternative yet.
at my old high school, I had to use portable firefox, and I doubt that's changed:p
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I thought I read once that Antarctica was considered a desert because its precipitation levels were so low. (the snow doesn't melt, therefore it doesn't go through the water cycle and precipitate!) Or maybe that was the Arctic. Or Siberia. Hmm.
Either way, I'm not too surprised!
"What helps you do integral calculus and find parking spots?"
"Clean living, Dr. Meek."
I just hope it doesn't atrophe my ability to integrate now that I won't need to use clean living to find parking spots. (in sanfran anyways)
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html
There's the page that details the last launches in case you wanted to take the chance and see one. I've never seen one yet, but I'd like to. *gotta hurry*
I wouldn't call Discworld very sciencey at all, but I did enjoy them when I was 12 inspite of not getting the jokes. Mort, Nightwatch, The Truth, and Soul Music are easy enough to enjoy for themselves, but Wyrd Sisters requires reading some basic Shakespeare to really get into, for example.
The Young Wizards series is rather more sciencey than fantasy and I ate it up readily.
If they like star wars, then get them just about any of those. I went in for two of the han solo trilogies (Daley and Crispin). The latter might have more yuck romancin', but it reads a lot more easily than the former, which is closer akin to the old school sci-fi.
Speaking of old school, you know you could throw Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan) at them. It's close enough to being an alien world, or so I thought. Or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Jurassic Park was well thumbed also. I definitely read it more often than I watched the movie, and more Crichton couldn't hurt. Andromeda Strain, Timeline, etc
I'm getting off-base with science fiction here I guess; they might be sciency and be fiction, but they're not set in far off astroworlds, but I'll just go one step further and recommend the Dirk Pitt books by Clive Cussler. They're practically made for young boys (and tomgirls). My classmates and I pretty much ate them up during 6-8th grades. You might just find yourself laden with a couple of marine biologists afterwards.
I loved learning french in high school, and eagerly took two semesters of it this year in the place that english would've been (thank you AP), but unless I'm working with the ESA on something, I don't think there's much call for it in the mechanical/aerospace engineering world :|
(not to mention the course load doesn't leave the time to persue it any further, except during summer)
That's not to say you should give up learning a foreign language, but I don't think it would be so worth the time as putting your effort into another, more relevant field.
16.7 percent of Firefox users still continue to access the Web with an outdated version of the browser,
Computer labs. You have admins who set up the lab, turn on the security camera and leave the computers for the year, basically. The one in my dorm was running 2.0.3 last I checked(two months ago), the one in the engineering building was 2.12 (two months ago), and the one in france was also 2.12 I think. (couple of weeks ago).
Unless you carry a portable firefox around with you like I do sometimes (but rarely used because those computers are slow enough without having to wait to mount a usb drive), then you're subject to the whims and schedule of your updater.
If your MBP is anything like mine, a few hours^H^H^H^H^H minutes of full screen brightness, default fan speed, and CS3 on a fabricky surface should do the trick.
Luckily the numerals 0, 8 and 5 are three of five that look exactly the same even upside down in liquid crystal notation.
You can continue to turn your calculator 180 degrees, but why bother when you can be reaching into your pants. . . Or wherever mathnerds reach :O
(inside of gabriel's horn moarlike)
It is in France.
My university physics professors wrote the course guide and lab manual for the UPII course and it was some of the best stuff ever. They got a grant from the NSF to do it, according to the cover.
(however, the UPI class required a ridiculous prepublication book which was terrible reading and not even bound so you couldn't resell it)
What it should also do is have a basic microphone and software to recognize notes played so it can advance the music as you play! of course if you play it wrong you'll be out of luck, but you'll probably be stopping and starting anyways as you're probably just learning the music then.
*has used laptops + pianos more than once*
I guess I should stop checking my hotmail, but I guess it'd get annoying if adium had a perpetual 'New Email!' message for my MSN.
They've added a 'ignore all application requests' button which does away with all that nonsense :)
That's because some people are interested in what will probably happen at that point. Weather patterns tend to repeat themselves year after year, so you can get a good average idea.
For example, in my hometown on a certain week of February, it usually goes up to 70 degrees for a few days. Someone from out of town probably wouldn't think to pack shorts for Arkansas in february, but they might end up wanting them.
Also, it has snowed on the same day in february almost every single year since 2002 (which was when I started counting, it might have been doing it before, I don't know xD).
There's nothing promising that the weather will do just that, but if you aren't familiar with a region, it's nice to have an idea of the recent year's trends.
But I always feel weird when this happens, because unless I check thoroughly, the original material will end up being the same thing. And I'm too lazy to check :(
but it's always a neat feeling when you see a phrase (or a book title) and feel like a world suddenly opened up where only you can see it.
well, that's no problem, just log onto usenet and . . .uh never mind.
since they're strong, they should donate them to the local university physics students so they can build their electric motors!
I wish we would've had some nice hardcore magnets when that project came up!
well, funny you mention esperanto. The boat tours in Strasbourg offer it as an option on the audio guide :] (along with several other options, but it still made me giggle when I realized)
I guess they're working on it!
but they don't have a handy weekly newsletter categorized by genres :(
At the school I'm going to in France (part of the universite franche comte), they have ms products and their open source counterparts both installed on the school computers. Word and OO.O, IE (of course), and firefox. The only thing I haven't spotted yet is linux xD
:p
My school in the US is headed that way; they have firefox installed on all the computers, but they haven't installed an ms word alternative yet.
at my old high school, I had to use portable firefox, and I doubt that's changed
they did specify "reduced to crap", mind you.
yes but there are non-Windows using WoW players!
I'm in the top 1 percentile for france, but unfortunately, I am only here for study abroad :] You're welcome, france!