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This weekend in homework

Our top story on this four-day weekend: Part one of science project due Tuesday. That includes five pages of research, a bibliography, a hypothesis, and probably something else. After much stress, I decided to go along with my original idea of expounding on the project I did last year. Although running an electric current through salt water and varying the compositions of the electrodes doesn’t sound like a blast, it’s good that I have a solid foundation to work on rather than starting a whole new project from scratch. Can I get away with reusing some of my original research? I believe I can. I have three pages of it, and I need a total of five, so it shouldn’t be that much of a problem. I just need to figure out a good hypothesis. Which metals will make the best electrodes? I don’t know!

For the research part, 5 of my 10-15 sources have to be books, so I went to the library today. I knew that I had used some books for my original research, so I only looked for a few books. As it turned out, a few were all they had. Come on, guys. Chemistry is the “central science,” and you only have two books about it? I checked out them both. Then I went home and found out that I had only used one book in my original report, so it was time to hit the other local library. They had a whole three books on chemistry, although one was more about alchemy and the other was a book of simple, simple experiments for kids (think vinegar-and-baking-soda volcanoes). So I checked out the other book.

In order to have five book sources, I needed one more book. It was time to hit the reference section. I managed to find a book with a few pages of information on electrical conductivity and stuff like that, so we managed to run off some copies of those pages. And now here I am. I guess I’ll only have to write two pages, but coming up with a suitable hypothesis might be a little more difficult. I don’t really know what sorts of metals would carry the electricity better. Maybe they’d all do equally well? No, that sounds unlikely. Oh well. I’ll have a few days to figure it out. It is a guess, anyway.

Also this weekend: I have to study for Tuesday’s test on the muscular system in Anatomy and Physiology. I need to memorize the names of a bunch of muscles, as well as being able to explain the structure of a muscle, among other things. Also on Tuesday, I have a test on a bunch of stuff in Calculus. Tests are 95% of the grade in that class, and they’re pretty tough. I almost had an A in the class until I bombed the last test, giving me a solid B. It’s going to be impossible to raise my grade to an A before the end of the quarter, so I just have to work on keeping my B. I think I also have a vocabulary quiz in English on Tuesday, but that’s nothing.

Here’s a little Ask Jordon to brighten your day.

Luke: How many candles were on Google’s 8th birthday cake?

I did notice that the cupcake in Google’s logo didn’t have eight candles. I think there were five or six.

sean: So what did you think of Jackass Number Two? (Which, awesomely yet strangely enough, has been given two thumbs up by Ebert and Roeper)

The movie was funny, and I’d probably see it again, even though I’ll never think about horses the same way. That’s really weird that Ebert and Roeper gave it two thumbs up. What made Ebert like it more than the first Jackass, which he panned?

Have a lot of huge pictures from your digital camera that you want to get online? Sometimes the only thing you need to do is resize an image before it’s ready to go. ResizR is an online tool that makes that job a little easier.

If you’re obsessed with Wikipedia, take the extremely long Are You a Wikipediholic Test. My score is a pithy 297.738126131719, so I have “a well-balanced attitude that may benefit by spending more time on Wikipedia.”

One year ago: “Gee, you must be wondering to yourself, I bet Jordon’s busy. Wrongo.”
Two years ago: “Every week I’m being driven into the ground by work, work, work. It just won’t let up.”
Three years ago: “Seeing as it’s an online petition, it won’t count for much, but it makes for a good symbolic gesture.”