whats a williedue?

bling bling

my roommate won on blingo! pretty exciting eh?

math, not so nobel

I heard a pretty interesting story today from my math GSI. She said that there has never been and never will be a Nobel Prize for mathematics. The reason is Nobel found his wife cheating on him with a mathematician. This resulted in him hating all mathematicians.
Historical evidence doesn't support this though because Nobel was never married...

ants

This morning I took a handful of cheerios and stuck it in my mouth. Immediately I noticed that they tasted really strange. I looked into the bag to see that they were all covered in ants.

100th post!

hey, this is my 100th post. pretty exciting eh?
well this morning I woke up to go climbing and as I was doing my morning thing: wake up, brush teeth, eat cheerio's, get dressed, etc., I noticed it was brighter outside than usual. This was kind of strange because I'm used to it being still dark outside when I wake up to go climb. I thought that maybe since days are getting longer, the sunlight was comming up earlier. However, I realized that this much brightness would be too much. I soon realized that I had set my alarm to 6:45 instead of 5:45.
If you read my last post, an updat on that situation follows: I failed already. I made the 5 dollar donation for the Mosaic/New Church/Regeneration dance thing. Then the next day I spend an hour and a half in starbucks reading for a class and bought a chai tea latte.
Well that's it.

Late-January Resolutions

I've been spending way too much money lately so for the month of Feburary here are some things I am not going to:

buy stuff from steep and cheep, rei, or any outdoor equipment place
buy new books or things that i don't immediatly need for some sort of class
eat out
go on weekend excursions that involve funding

Basically I'm going to only spend money on food that is from Safeway and is preferably on sale. Yup I think that's it.
I think the one exception is during President's day weekend when I'm going snowboarding. I'll buy a lift ticket.

back to school

What follows is a summary of my winter break (this report isn't stimulating so I'll include some pictures at the end as incentive to read this... or you can just scroll down and look at the pictures):
My last final ended at 3 on December 19th and on December 20th I arrived in Vancouver airport with my family. We spent about a week in Canada visiting relatives and playing in the snow. From the December 21-26 we were in Whistler sking/snowboarding.
I got home on the 27th and from this point on spent a lot of time watching TV and movies. I think the most meaningful show that I watched was the many episodes of My Super Sweet 16. This show basically showcases some of the most spoiled children ever with their $300,000 birthday parties and $100,000 dollar cars. Actually quiet entertaining.
I spent the first moments of 2007 in San Francisco. We arrived in SF by bart and walked 39 piers to pier 39 only to find out that fireworks went off near pier 1.
The next ten days were spent watching TV and hanging out with people and visiting high school.
Then, I decided last minute to go on a climbing trip. So from Janurary 11-15 I was down in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. It was kinda cold to be camping. The nighttime temperature was in the 'teens every night and it never really got above 40 on any day. The first night was so windy that it took 2 of us about 1.5 hours to set up two tents. I also got to pratice driving stick for 5 hours on the way to Nevada and about 3 hours on the way back home. Also, since red rocks is so close to Vegas, we ate at the luxor buffet and spent a few more nights just walking on the strip.

Other things: the aim interface is pretty ugly and we turned on our heater today for the first time.