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Inertia is a property of matter

Snippets from an IM conversation with my friend Sean on Thursday:

Jordon: today and tomorrow are when the honors students register for their honors courses
Jordon: you register online, it goes from 9-5 each day, and you can only register for one class per day
Jordon: so at 9:00 this morning everyone on my floor was going crazy because they couldn’t register for their class
Sean: that sucks
Jordon: I was trying too because they get filled up pretty quickly, but I couldn’t do it, and I was going to be late for class, so I hurried halfway across campus (a 20 minute walk) to my class where I was going to have a quiz
Jordon: on the way, I realized that the guy who sits next to me always has his computer, so I figured by then it would be working, so that made me go even faster
Jordon: so I get to the class (on the third floor), panting and out of breath, asking to use someone’s computer, and everyone’s like staring at me
Jordon: and I’m like, “honors registration, man… it’s crazy”
Jordon: so I use that guy’s computer, and I’m able to register for my class, so mission accomplished
Jordon: I just got an e-mail apologizing for the delay

I’m pretty excited today: not only about today’s Florida-Georgia Game, but also about Bill Nye coming to speak next Tuesday. I used to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy all the time when I was a little kid. He made science fun! If you don’t believe me, here’s a clip. And who could forget the theme song? My sister and some of my friends are also planning on going. And why wouldn’t they? Science rules!

Here are The 10 Strangest (Real) Things in Space. They’re all real.

And here are the 30 Strangest Deaths in History. Who’s the authority who decides what the strangest things are, anyway? I should come up with a list of the strangest things so other blogs can link to it.