Topic: QOTD (Read 309124 times)

Socrates · « **Reply #700 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:58:11 AM »

Quote from: Detta on June 30, 2006, 07:52:22 AM

QOTD: What was your favourite book that you were forced to read in school?

Toss up between The Hobbit and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Min · « **Reply #701 on:** June 30, 2006, 09:17:00 AM »

Heh. I didn't even read the damn Hobbit!! Well, to be fair, we had it on....vinyl record and I'd heard the story many times.

My favourite was Of Mice and Men. That was also summer reading I think. I couldn't put it down.

And I cried at the end.

xolik · « **Reply #702 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:55:07 AM »

Quote from: Detta on June 30, 2006, 07:52:22 AM

QOTD: What was your favourite book that you were forced to read in school?

Island of the Blue Dolphins.

sociald1077 · « **Reply #703 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:50:03 PM »

Quote from: Detta on June 30, 2006, 07:52:22 AM

QOTD: What was your favourite book that you were forced to read in school?

Either Lord of the Flies or The Crucible. Something about violence at a young age that made me really enjoy them.

TheJudge · « **Reply #704 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:50:45 PM »

Quote from: Detta on June 30, 2006, 07:52:22 AM

QOTD: What was your favourite book that you were forced to read in school?

The outsiders

sociald1077 · « **Reply #705 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:50:55 PM »

Quote from: xolik on June 30, 2006, 10:55:07 AM

Quote from: Detta on June 30, 2006, 07:52:22 AM
QOTD: What was your favourite book that you were forced to read in school?

Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Hehe, I havent thought about that book in a long time. Wasn't too bad.

Steelbelly · « **Reply #706 on:** June 30, 2006, 01:20:07 PM »

I'd have to go with Lord of the Flies as well.

pariah · « **Reply #707 on:** June 30, 2006, 02:34:27 PM »

When a number is chosen at random from the set {1,2,3,4,5,6}, which event
has the greatest probability of occuring?
1. choosing an even number
2. choosing a prime number
3. choosing a number greater than 3
4. NOT choosing either 1 or 6

1. 1/2
2. 1/2
3. 1/2
4. 2/3 <--- Greatest probability

This thread insults my intelligence. >.< 1 is not a prime number, and it never will be...

pbsaurus · « **Reply #708 on:** June 30, 2006, 02:43:20 PM »

Quote from: Detta on June 30, 2006, 07:52:22 AM

QOTD: What was your favourite book that you were forced to read in school?

I kinda answered this in advance. But I gave several. So let's just say Lysistrata for HS, The Teachings of Don Juan-A Yaqui Way of Knowlede for undergraduate years, Built To Last for graduate school, and The Billion Dollar Molecule for my certificate program in Biotech management.

ivan · « **Reply #709 on:** June 30, 2006, 02:47:09 PM »

Quote from: pariah on June 30, 2006, 02:34:27 PM

This thread insults my intelligence. >.< 1 is not a prime number, and it never will be...

Who said it was?

pariah · « **Reply #710 on:** June 30, 2006, 02:51:05 PM »

Quote from: Detta on April 17, 2006, 02:30:49 PM

Quote from: xolik
Quote from: Detta
QOTD: What was the last movie that you saw at the theater?

Nacho Libre. It sucked more than a Southern showgirl on a Saturday night. And it was racist.

pariah · « **Reply #711 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:03:06 PM »

Quote from: Detta on April 18, 2006, 09:18:32 AM

QOTD: What are the worst movies you have seen?

The Core. One of the absolute worst modern sci-fi films ever to see the carcinogenic light of day. But I loved it, because all of my geeky friends and I were rolling on the ground, dying of laughter during the scenes when the pigeons kill the tourists in Piccadilly Square because their 'internal magnets' are set off by core of the earth, which has suddenly ceased to move. Physics doesn't ruin movies... it enhances them by revealing the 'universal stupidity of people all around the world.'
Hmm... what else was really bad... oh GOD, the Da Vinci Code was a complete waste of time... I was also sorely disappointed by Alexander because I love ancient history... made me wish Philip II would have encouraged his wife to have an abortion so long ago, just so the movie wouldn't have come into existence.

TeraHammer · « **Reply #712 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:15:03 PM »

Quote from: pariah on June 30, 2006, 02:34:27 PM

This thread insults my intelligence. >.< 1 is not a prime number, and it never will be...

1 does actually follow the definition of a prime number, that it can only be divided by itself and 1. Yes 1 is forcefully excluded from the prime list, but I think that is not right in principle.

Vespertine · « **Reply #713 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:21:38 PM »

Quote from: catwritr on June 29, 2006, 07:31:45 PM

In high school, Dostoevsky's "Crime & Punishment."

In college, anything by John Milton. Hate Milton.

You and me both! I'd like to set fire to every single copy ever made of Crime & Punishment.

ivan · « **Reply #714 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:54:37 PM »

Quote from: TeraHammer on June 30, 2006, 03:15:03 PM

Quote from: pariah on June 30, 2006, 02:34:27 PM

This thread insults my intelligence. >.< 1 is not a prime number, and it never will be...
1 does actually follow the definition of a prime number, that it can only be divided by itself and 1. Yes 1 is forcefully excluded from the prime list, but I think that is not right in principle.

And furthermore, no one in this thread suggested that 1 is a prime number, so why is pariah's intelligence insulted? I don't get it.

BizB · « **Reply #715 on:** June 30, 2006, 04:18:53 PM »

intelligence threatened? I don't even know what the fuck that means.

How could something that is a measurement of your abilitiy to achieve cognition feel threatened.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #716 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:03:30 PM »

Quote from: BizB on June 30, 2006, 04:18:53 PM

intelligence threatened? I don't even know what the fuck that means.

How could something that is a measurement of your abilitiy to achieve cognition feel threatened.

lol your dum

pbsaurus · « **Reply #717 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:16:09 PM »

Compromised, but never threatened.

Evonus · « **Reply #718 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:20:37 PM »

Quote from: Detta on June 29, 2006, 11:40:39 AM

QOTD: What was your least favourite book that you were forced to sort of read in school?

A Farewell to Arms.

<3 4 depressing endings.

Min · « **Reply #719 on:** July 03, 2006, 07:43:29 AM »

QoTD: What are your Independence Day plans?

TheJudge · « **Reply #720 on:** July 03, 2006, 09:49:42 AM »

Quote from: Detta on July 03, 2006, 07:43:29 AM

QoTD: What are your Independence Day plans?

I'll try to be independant

Min · « **Reply #721 on:** July 03, 2006, 10:19:12 AM »

Is this just another day for you or do you guys celebrate fourth of july like we celebrate cinco de mayo?

Min · « **Reply #722 on:** July 03, 2006, 10:32:33 AM »

My plans are huge. We're putting on the biggest fireworks show in the Richmond area. I think we spent $25,000 on fireworks. Our total budget is between $125,000 and $150,000. There's going to be a 5k run in the morning and then gates open to the event around 4:00. There's a kids area, a car show, beer trucks, vendors, and 3 bands (including Fighting Gravity).

Enrique is in charge of the race in the morning so I have to help him with that.

I'm in charge of the membership tent. We have some good recruiters lined up including the person that recruited me at this very event 9 years ago, the Virginia Jaycee President, and the US Jaycee President. I also put together a scrap book with pictures of all the events we've done in the last 3 years, I designed and printed 1250 brochures outlining what we do, and I got some doorprizes donated. So hopefully we'll get some people to join the Jaycees tomorrow.

They were calling for isolated thunderstorms, but now they're saying "mostly sunny". That's perfect. We could use some cloud cover because it's gonna be a scorching 99 degrees out there. Seems like good weather to make some money!! (For charity of course.) Honestly though, I'll be very happy if we break even since this is the first time we've done this event in several years and the first time ever that we've done it this big.

Dark Shade · « **Reply #723 on:** July 03, 2006, 10:47:11 AM »

Quote from: Detta on July 03, 2006, 07:43:29 AM

QoTD: What are your Independence Day plans?

Absolutely none. We just had Canada Day, so that was our major fireworks schtick for the next while.

xolik · « **Reply #724 on:** July 03, 2006, 11:10:51 AM »

Quote from: Detta on July 03, 2006, 07:43:29 AM

QoTD: What are your Independence Day plans?

Nothing, really. Probably just visit the kids and maybe go out with some friends in the evening.

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