Topper's TravelsTopper Kain's blog. Topper Kain is a world-famous kazoo player and traditional norwegian food chef. He wants you to use the comments. Tuesday, December 31, 2002I'm rather shocked this site is still here. I thought they would have dumped my account or something. Guess they didn't. What to say since last time I posted...I can now mark "Some college" on those STUPID little forms that you see all over the place. That's right, I have (hopefully) 17 college credits to my name now. I know I high passed Principles of Computer Science and am pretty sure I passed the rest of my classes. That was no easy feat eithier, Mudd is hard. .: posted by Topper 1:16 AMWednesday, August 21, 2002I am no longer a washington resident. That's right, I am now living in sunny southern california at harvey mudd college. And I'm bored. Us football players are the only ones on campus right now with free time (all four of us) so we've been walking around trying to distract people who have actual work to do and such. It'll probabaly get better tomorrow when we start real practice. My current maxs are: bench- 230 (I know, I know, it is pathetic), clean-235, 20 yard shuttle- 4.66 sec. vertical jump- 26 inches. I'm doing squats later.I went to Disneyland before I came to Mudd, which was a great goodbye to childhood and living with parents. I had so much fun with my lil' bro Andrew. There was one great story I think I should share with you: My brother, my Mom and I were eating lunch at the "Soap Opera Bistro" in Disney's California Adventure, which is basically a resturant done up to resemeble famous sets from various soap operas.. We were just about to finish up when this guy in a elegant bath robe (he looked like a generic rich guy), snuck up behind my mom and set his hand on the back of her chiar. Then he, quite loudly, annouced to the guy in scrubs, "Look, she doesn't even look at me anymore, she just ignores me." It was an audience partipation skit that was focused entirely on my mom, one of the most nonparticipation people I know. It ended up that she was engaged the the rich man, married to a mexican guy named don carlos, the leader of a teen pop singing group called the spinnerettes, and kept surgeons locked up in her bedroom (which I believe might be true). Well it's time for me to go do squat testing, later everyone. Oh, and doing the drive from Bremerton to LA in less than 20 hours is a total bitch. .: posted by Topper 2:35 PMMonday, July 08, 2002I'm a bad poster. I graduatated, and it was fun. I'm working now, and it is kind of fun. I'm a bad poster..: posted by Topper 12:03 AMThursday, June 06, 2002I just had the best birthday. Dan, Jon, Tom, and my long-lost ski-buddy Greg all went with my family to sushi, which was awesome. My dad totally gorged us on raw fish, it was sooooo good. Bo (the resturant owner) made me some special birthday sushi, on the house, and a special raw fish dish with a sauce that was seriousaly some of the best food I've ever had. Then came the cake (Mudd pie!!!) and presents. Tom bought me Morrowwind for X-box, which is part of our perpetual gift giving agreement. My brother andrew gave me an UPS (universal power supply, which is basically a surge protector with a battery that can run your computer for like 45 minutes without power from the mainline) and pocket protectors (I asked for them). My parents got me a really nice digital camera, which I am having fun playing with right now. My favorite present, however, was from my brother Alex. He got me a ski bunny! That's right, after all my searching for one I finally find one! (NOTE: I do not have a new girlfriend, unless you don't know I'm dating Emma, who doesn't ski, but a stuffed animal rabbit that my brother made ski's, pole's, ski hat, and goggles for. It is the coolest looking thing in the world). After dinner we went back to my house and the guys and my dad and I sat around, smoked $10 cigars, talked guy talk and watched the sun set over the water. It was a near perfect evening..: posted by Topper 12:24 AMWednesday, June 05, 2002Darnit! Mr. Noble just made me delete Dungeon Siege off my computer at school! What am I going to do in class now? Anyways, I'm 18 today! hoorah! I can vote, be tried as an adult, and die for my country!!! Still can't drink though!Birthday Bar-be-que Saturday June 8th, 6 PM. If you read this you are invited. Alright I need a refridgerator box, two long haired wigs, a copy of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", 4 or 5 guys, 1 or 2 girls, a pair of latex gloves, and a TV. Anyone want to help? Prom was really fun. Dinner was very, very slow in coming, and we never got our bagel chips, but it was pretty good when it got there. The stupid waiters got really crappy tips, let me tell you! When we actually got to the dance I discovered my date (therese park) hates fast dancing! It's great I only danced to the songs I liked, with any girl I wanted, and just talked to people when I didn't like the music. Talking and slow dancing with therese was fun too, as she's really pretty and a fun girl to be around. Well, that's what's up with my life. Chio! .: posted by Topper 1:18 PMTuesday, May 28, 2002This LoTR character identification is pretty good:You are most like Elrond. Although you are very serious, you're not above having a good time. It's just that your definition of a good time is pretty different from other people's. You're very smart, so use your knowledge to help others! At least your not so pessimistic. People may think you're hard nosed, but all your friends know better.
.: posted by Topper 12:57 PMSunday, May 19, 2002AP testing is.... OVER!!!! Finally, my last AP test is done with. I've figured out that, over the years, I have AP tested for close to 40 hrs. And it over. No more AP tests. No more reading the student handbook, over and over again while waiting for everyone else to finish filling out there stuff. Just really, really, really hard college finals. Oh damn. This is going to suck.Well the academic year is wrapping up, but I'm not going to procrastenate and am already tring to stop going to school. There is so much for me to be happy about right now. Great friends, a good job, little responsibility, and a goodly amount of freedom. Life is good. It would be better if I didn't need to turn in those english essays, but oh well... Need to finish esays, maybe I'll remembre to post again today. .: posted by Topper 3:39 PMMonday, May 13, 2002ARGHHHH, AP testing week!!!The AP tests are destroying me, eating a small piece of my being a little bit at a time. Thank goodness there are only two more days of it... AP physics tomorrow and AP gov. wednesday. I'm dying here. Wow, this is bad, I can't even write. Ap testing is that bad. I'll try later .: posted by Topper 11:35 PMThursday, May 02, 2002Woohooo!!!! Green Day fucking rocks man!!! Hell Yeahhh!!!! <--my entire vocabulary last night.If you haven't guessed, I went and say the greatest band in the history of the world last night, the one, the only, Pet Shop Boys. No really, I went to the Green Day (okay, Pop Disaster tour, but Blink sucks and Jimmy Eat World was only on for like 35 minutes) concert in Tacoma. It was awesome, to use the word in it's original sense, which that it inspired awe. I was in a state of euphoria throughout the entire Green Day set. I don't believe I stopped moving or singing at any point during it. Billy Joe is an insanely good rabble rouser. He had 30,000 people (or whatever the capacity of the Tacoma dome is) shouting "Hey, hey, hey" and "AAAAAAA OOOOOOO" all night long. They really involved the crowd in the concert. In fact they invited 3 random guys in the crowd to come up and play their instruments. Can you imagine it: Green Day, invites you on stage, to play their instruments, with them, in front of 30,000 people. Absolutely insane. They ended there set with a guitar burning, drum set mauling finale, followed with Billy Joe playing an electic version of "Good Riddance" for a finale. Absolutely the best concert I've been to, ever. Highlights: The booing after billy joe told the crowd they weren't going to play "Basketcase" (and the cheering after he told them he was "such a fucking liar") The dancing mexican brass section The dancing chicken and bumble bee brass section The 3 kids pulled out of the audience playing with Green Day Green Day playing lynard skynard and the temptations, (the temptations "Shout" was the one of the best songs in the set, second only to:) When I come around. Best song in the world. What more do I have to say about it. Blink concert was also pretty cool with some fun pyrotechnics and special effects. The only thing that really sticks out in my mind though is travis playing a drum solo on a plat form flying through the air spinning upside down. That was pretty cool (although no where near Green Days unfathomable awesomeness) Oh, Dan and Emma, thanks for the company. I can't think of a better two people I could have gone to the concert with. Later all .: posted by Topper 12:16 PMSunday, April 21, 2002topkai22: I went to CKHS's (my physics school) prom last night, and my date's group and I went to dinner in Seattle. The driver of our car found the place alright, it was back on union and 34th, not easy to spot. Dinner was nice and all, even if I was put next to my ex-girlfriend for some strange reason. HOWEVER, we had the most interesting drive back. Our driver took use down, in order, a one way alleyway leading to the train tracks and loading docks (he used the alley to get in and out...), a little joint through the docks and industrial section of seattle, a drive through Highline and west seattle (we drove past the same 7-11 three times before he stopped and asked for directions, forgot the directions, drove past it AGAIN and had to go back in and get directions) and finally to I-5, where we immediatly hit traffic.iam THE DIXI CUP: haha iam THE DIXI CUP: highline....that's right by me topkai22: now at this point we were already two hours late topkai22: hmmm, maybe not then, it was west seattle topkai22: actually an hour and a half late, excuse me iam THE DIXI CUP: ick topkai22: our driver's date starts CRYING. I mean a full blown weep job, messing up her make up and all iam THE DIXI CUP: hahaha topkai22: so our driver is trying to aggressively drive through bumper to bumper traffic in federal way (his date thought it was bridege traffic all the way to federal way...) and trying calm his date at the same time iam THE DIXI CUP: haha topkai22: anyways we eventually make it to the dance, two hours late, and in front of the dance there was this gigantic sign for the theme that said: "Looks like we made it" topkai22: we all just started cracking up iam THE DIXI CUP: hahaha iam THE DIXI CUP: that's great topkai22: yeah topkai22: and it certainaly makes for a better story then "I went to the dance, I had fun .: posted by Topper 12:53 PMFriday, April 12, 2002Back to semi-weekly updates I think. Maybe. Probabaly not. Anyway, I the first thing I will inform everyone of, since I just found out myself, is that I will be working as a Materials Science Technician at Concurrent Technologies Corporation's outpost in Bremerton. This is a cool job that I am excited to work at, but unfortunately the pay sucks. I think I may get a third job (in addition to the one just mentioned and lifeguarding) helping install television stuff for more money, but we'll see if my schedule allows it.Next item of my agenda: Mrs. Taylor is obsessed with sex and death. Today we did some Emily Dickenson poem about her sexuality as women which refferred to a penis as a small pink worm and a snake. I nearly threw up. Speaking of throw up, has anyone heard of that new perfurme named Ralph? What bozo in the marketing department of Ralph Lauren came up with that one? That's almost as bad as marketing the Nova in latin america as "the Nova", whick literally translated means "no go." Oh, I'm going to CK's prom with Anna Robins. It should be fun. Umm, what else... oh! Oly's guys team finally won a track meet!!! Hoorah for the Trojans!!! Guess that is it... except for: QUOTE OF THE SEMI-RANDOM TIME PERIOD- "Computers have made it possible for humankind to make more mistakes in less time then any invention in history, with the possible excpetion of Tequila and hand guns." .: posted by Topper 4:25 PMTuesday, April 09, 2002another quote, stolen from Jessica Ahart:"Always behave like a duck-- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath." .: posted by Topper 10:22 AMQuote of the ... hell I give up: "So what if we are freezing our asses off above 10,000 feet in the driving rain,with a broken down van and at least an hour and a half till a rescue van comes, at least the bagels are good!" .: posted by Topper 10:21 AMAs promised, my adventures on Haleakeau, which in Hawaiian means "Big ass volcano on Maui": I think I may be the only person in Washington state to ever get frost bitten in Hawaii. My family decided to watch the sunrise on top of Haleakala (a big ass volcano) and then bike down the mountain to sea level. Only problem was that the van that took us up , and was supposed to follow us down, protecting us form cars, broke down. So, I my family and 8 other people were stuck up on top of this mountian for 2 and a half hours in what was barely above freezing tempertures and gale force winds driving sheets of rain. In otherwords, I felt right at home! what aloha spirit... .: posted by Topper 10:15 AMSaturday, April 06, 2002BIG MASSIVE UPDATE:first the knowledge bowl wrap-up. We took 11th at state and the trip was lots of fun. I had a big long story written up on it, but the window got closed before I finished typing it up, so it never actually got published, and I don't feel like typing it again. the other major item of Topper news is: I just got back form Hawai`i and am tan! It was great, even if it was with my parents. We did all sorts of stuff, SCUBA (my dad had so much fun he is swearing he is going to get dive certified now), snorkelling, sunning, submarines, and stuff all come to mind. The most interesting parts of the trip were the bike trip down a volcano and the road to hana. Hana is this ultra small resort village that you have to get to throw 500 some odd hairpin turns and like 67 one-way bridges, and that is the maintained side! The way out is unmaintained road with that some turns where if you don't honk you don't know what's coming. It was really cool, cause the first part was through super dense tropical rainforest with lots of interesting smells, waterfalls and plants. We then had lunch with some really good Maui pineapple (my dad order a dozen to be sent over to the mainland) and other tropicla fruits. During the next part we same in the seven sacred pools, which are seven pools fed by seven sequential waterfalls, and saw humpback whales breaching like crazy off the coast. It was damn cool. Best of all we did it in a big airconditioned bus, so nobody in my family had to drive. I'll post the biking down the volcano story when I find it. I don't feel like writing it out again. .: posted by Topper 2:40 AMSunday, March 17, 2002Ack!!! I need to stop buying text books/reference books when I don't need them for a class. I just bought a two math text books and a computer textbooks, plus some novels, for way too much money! oh well, I'll enjoy reading them all when they get here (that is the really sick thing...)So I went up to Mt. Baker with Katie this weekend, instead of watching/driving my little brothers (my parents were gone all week). She introduced me to her friend Nate, who is a better skier then I am, so I got some good pointers from him. It was fun. Let me tell everyone who cares to listen to me (probabaly no one) that Katie is on of the quickest learners on skis I've ever met. In addition to skiing up at Baker, decided to snowboard for about half the day. Despite the fact that it is my third time snowboarding, and I was able to carve (hell, I managed to a little carving in a mogul field), it is still incredibly boring compared to skiing, and the boots hurt more. A lot more. Hmmm, what else. Oh yeah, Sarah took me to see a student production at WWU. It was 3 one act plays. Actually it was 2 one act plays and one act from a four act play. I my favorite was called "Hidden in This Picture", which is a funny scene about a director who is trying to make his stage to film crossover and the final shot of the movie getting ruined by cows. The Act from "Crimes of the Heart" was also really good, and the other one was so forgetable that I can't remember it's name. My thanks to Katie and Sarah for the use of the floor between your beds. I had a ton of fun hanging with you two. Even if Sarah was a bit hard to understand at times. Good Luck on finals week everyone! Hopefully none of you need it. Quote of the random time interval: "Yeah, baby."-Dave (ask Katie) .: posted by Topper 11:34 PMFriday, March 08, 2002Tolo pictures are back. If you are at UW, Leslie has 12 wallets to give out, so don't let her lie to you if you want to have a picture of me with my eyes shut and leslie looking spectacular.Star Blazers is a great show! .: posted by Topper 6:38 PMWednesday, March 06, 2002I apologize, I did have a friend of a friend give set up the initial comments script for me. Sorry Mandie.: posted by Topper 5:27 PMJust to annouce, cause I forgot to Monday, it is "Be really nice to Dan Smith week" all this week and weekend. He's been having a really bad week. And back after no demand at all: Quote of the highly irregular time period: "Why does it feel like I'm the only one shagging these balls!!!" .: posted by Topper 5:25 PMTuesday, March 05, 2002Due to popular demand I have installed a comments script on this page, now you can make fun of me in near real time!.: posted by Topper 10:45 PMtest check one, two, this thing on? .: posted by Topper 10:17 PMMonday, March 04, 2002okay, so I had a GREAT weekend. I love skiing, and I love whistler. It was so much fun skiing down 10k long runs! And the highest peak was like 9000' ! Trust me, with unlimeted visibility it is worth the price of a lift ticket just for the view. It hadn't snowed in about a week, so the bumps were out IN FORCE on the mountain. I think my knees hate me now, but it was SOOOOO worth it. Plus my brand spanking new ski backpack that I got for almost half price works even better than I expected! Man, I love the mountains. Now I just need to find some decent people to ski with....: posted by Topper 10:36 PMTuesday, February 26, 2002oh yeah, anyone interested in helping out/competing in an all night knowledge bowl tournament sometime in late spring e-mail me or sign my guest book..: posted by Topper 7:44 PMOly knowledge bowl dominates again!!! Despite an early setback in the written round Olympic High School knowledge bowl overcame a 10 point deficit and became the 4A regional champs again. Hoorah! This the two teams competing at state fromg the Olympic Pennisula will be OL1 and PA1, with kudos to CK3, BR1, and SK1 for there runner up finishes. PT1 was the number one overall team, over coming a HUGE third round deficit by jumping up THREE brackets in a 26 point round during the 4th. They beat OL1 by just one point in the top bracket during the 5th round, securing the Olympic region trophy once again. Must be something in the water. Till next time knowledge bowl fans, the next round by round will be from STATE!!! .: posted by Topper 7:43 PMSunday, February 24, 2002I just had the best time at Tolo. Leslie thanks a ton for going with me, I had so much fun with you, even if the music did suck and some twit took my jacket. Connie I promise the cookies are coming..: posted by Topper 2:09 AMSaturday, February 23, 2002After spending 3 hours looking for a decent comments script that works with blogspot, I have given up. Cherene if you want to give me the code for yours or if a someone else wants to help me set it up, please offer. Until then please feel free to use th guest book as a comments page. Got to go get ready for tolo. Have a good day all..: posted by Topper 4:51 PMWednesday, February 20, 2002so we were listening to the annoucements this morning when Mr. Barnes came on the PA. He told us all about the rules for Tolo. Mrs. Taylor was in an energetic mood this morning, and she decided to pantamine all the actions he all the rules he was describing. This was cute until he brought up "No dancing of a close physical nature." Mrs. Taylor pantomiming "dancing of a close physical nature" involves her putting an arm around her stomach, the other swinging in a tight circle in the air, bending at the knees and shaking her bootie, all while maintaining the same expression as an airline flight attendent demonstrating how to use the seat belts. This is both hillarous and disturbing. And I'm not even going to get into "No body under the influence of drugs or alcohol...".: posted by Topper 12:56 PMMonday, February 18, 2002Went to Seattle Saturday. Got on the 6:25 AM ferry to go to the JETS competition. This was foolishness, complete and utter foolishness. We got to the competition (held in the crossroads mall in bellevue) BEFORE THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE COMPETITION GOT THERE. So I was forced out of bed at 6:00 (I get ready quick) for no reason at all. I'm still angry about this. Anyways our bridges qualified with nothing illegal on them, and we sat around for 4 hours. We ended up winning the competition (no suprise) and I drove my mom to the ferry. After my mom got on the ferry I had my FIRST BIG SEATTLE DRIVING ADVENTURE!!! It was fun, I took my brother and his friend to the U district. I would have visited with some of my UW friends, but they had all gone home (you hosers). After this we drove around Seattle for an hour or two, got lost, tried to make it to the Ballard Firehouse, got lost again, ended up ( I don't know how I did this) at Safeco field, made another attempt to get to Ballard firehouse, made a bunch of wrong turns, but eventually got there anyways. At the firehouse I watched CJ Johnson's band play, and they were suprisingly good. A LOT better than when they played at my party. After this I ended up driving Jon and Karen home, all the way around cause nobody wanted to pay for the ferry.The rest of my weeked was uneventful. Nice pic from Tolo Kristen. I look like a clown. .: posted by Topper 3:36 PMTuesday, February 12, 2002Woohoo, after 2 hours on the phone with tech support I finally got my webcam working!!! Booyah! Now everyone can watch my ugly mug in REAL TIME!!! HAHAHAHA!!!Kristen, just to tell you, I've NEVER been able to sit down for 3 hours and write a paper. .: posted by Topper 9:06 PMI am a:  Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz! .: posted by Topper 8:52 PMSunday, February 10, 2002Curses!!! My new toy is giving me problems. I bought a webcam/digital camera tonight and now my computer is refusing to believe it is there. It's so frustrating!!!In other news, I had my last day of ski bus ever yesterday. I'll probabaly never ride the twinky to the slopes again! Well that is provided I pass english and don't becom a supersenior. .: posted by Topper 8:40 PMTuesday, February 05, 2002Topper's Travel's has had it's first random visiter sign the guest book! As the girls would probabaly say, "Woopah!!!" Elizabeth Dixon, as the winner of the "first person I don't know to sign my guestbook" contest you may claim your prize of some pocket lint and 2 ticket stubs from the movie "Glitter" and a 1968 Studebaker at any participating Krusty Burger store.Amusing and somewhat disturbing news arcticle: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991847 We had another math contest today, I ate too many cookies and am feeling kinda ill now :( Poor Julie. I spent about 15 minutes trying to explain to her why alcholism is a genetic disease, and I still don't think she got it. This is almost as bad as when I joked "On a national standardized test a full 50% of all american schools performed below average" she said "Thats awful!" .: posted by Topper 9:04 PMMonday, February 04, 2002So I tried entering in the United states of america computing olympiad. It's a five-hour long programming contest where you have to solve 5 programming problems. I spent 3 hours on one problem and realized I was only halfway through it. At that point I decided enough was enough and ran away screaming. Moral of the story: Academic competitions that require you to spend 1/4 of your day in complete isolation are sick and wrong.Another great skiing day this saturday. You non-skiers don't know what you are missing: the sun, the snow, the 5 hour long bus trip back to bremerton. What a superbowl!!! can you believe that finish! Even though the Rams lost, it was still tremendous fun to watch! It's a new semester, hoorah! Too bad AP English still blows. Kinda weird to think it is my last one at Oly, not that I'm that disappointed. I'm mad, I got a C+ on my physics final. Sleep deprivation sucks. I started to hear things saturday night, sunday morning. if you want to hear anything more about my life just ask. Quote of the undefined, semi-regular time period: ""Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers .: posted by Topper 8:23 PMTuesday, January 29, 2002ACK!!! I hate English!!!Finals week is cool. No work, excpet english, and I don't even have to go to class for 3 periods a day! I hope it snows, I don't want to go to school tomorrow. Qoute of the undefined, semi-regular time period: "Dante's seminal work, Inferno, was a indepth examination of the MS Windows operating system architechture." .: posted by Topper 9:37 PMSunday, January 27, 2002Eric says:"Write a well-organized essay in which you explain how the poet converys not just a literal description of picking blackberries but a deeper understanding of the whole experience." Freddie Roosevelt says: Oh no Freddie Roosevelt says: what is this for? Eric says: ap english Eric says: this poet needs a life Eric says: he's talking about picking blackberries and eating them Eric says: and it sounds like he's having an orgasm Eric says: he needs a girlfriend, cause something is horribly wrong when you have to resort to having sex with blackberries Freddie Roosevelt says: you see that is EXACTLY why I opted to take the class pass/fail, just so I don't have to do stuff like that... Freddie Roosevelt says: okay, now that is funny Eric says: there are blackberries on my street Eric says: and little kids walk by them on the way home from school Eric says: can you imagine what it would do to a kid Eric says: if he walked by them Eric says: and heard a moaning coming out of them Eric says: and then invesigated and saw a guy making love to blackberries? Freddie Roosevelt says: ROTFLOL Eric says: if i saw that happening i would just go have myself castrated Eric says: plus, blackberries have thorns, that's gotta hurt! Eric says: but thorns are like horns, so i guess you could say blackberries are horny Freddie Roosevelt says: LOL Eric says: which brings us to the moral of the story: Eric says: "Don't have sex with blackberries." Freddie Roosevelt says: LOL Freddie Roosevelt says: I think you need to use that as your essay Eric says: yeah Eric says: i'm writing about the meaning of life instead .: posted by Topper 10:06 PMI forgot to mention ealier: I'm having a superbowl party at my house and if you read this page, you are invited. The super bowl is Febuary 3rd, I hope you all come. If you need directions e-mail me @ topkai22@hotmail.com .: posted by Topper 12:13 AMHappy Birthday Leslie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .: posted by Topper 12:09 AMSaturday, January 26, 2002WHAT AM AWESOME DAY!!!! There was sooo much new snow and I had so many good runs, I'm still stoked from being up at Steven's. Best Saturday of the season by far. I had three awesome drops today, two on cliffside and one into big chief bowl. Didn't biff any of them. Oh I'm tired though...In other news, Erik Holk, Katie Henry, Ben Miller, and myself all suck at ping-pong. I have now been addressed as "Knowledge Bowl Guy" by two different people from two different schools (BHS and PTHS). I don't know if this is a good thing or not... Anyone want to give OHS $2000 to build a Battle Bot? Anyone? Cause I don't... I finally got my Lettemen's Jacket. Apparently I look "Hot" in it. This comment was probabaly brought upon more by me sitting next to the heater while wearing it then my physical attractiveness, but one can hope. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is an option for the AP english test!!! Wooohooo Speaking of AP english, I still haven't done my book cards. Would somebody like to do them for me? I'll do Comp. Sci., physics, math, or manual labor for you... and now: quote of the undefined, semi-regular time period- "Optimists say the glass is half full; pessimists say the glass is half empty; engineers keenly remark that the glass is twice as large as it needs to be." (And at Harvey Mudd they then drink whatever is inside of it :-) .: posted by Topper 11:26 PMWednesday, January 23, 2002*sigh* I should have skipped and gone and seen the carl vison and/or the Olympic torch today... oh wellIf anyone has the answers to the 1998 or 1999 AP Physics C free-response questions please e-mail them to me before 11 AM tomorrow. My brain is about to explode. It think I should pirate a broadcast frequency and start a radio show. Anyone want to help? quote of the undefined, semi-regular time period- "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." ---Mitch Ratcliffe .: posted by Topper 11:23 PMTuesday, January 22, 2002Something I forgot to blog about earlier: Today in english we were reading essays and grading them on the AP scale. All the girls in the class where just ripping apart this one essay, while my group (of guys) was being kinda complimentary. I said "I thought the last paragraph and the conclusion were really rushed." Mrs. Taylor said, "Yeah, I was a little rushed at the end when I was writing it."The collectice look on the girls faces was worth a million bucks. .: posted by Topper 11:03 PMI woke up this morning at 6 am. There is something wrong with me I think. I NEVER wake up at 6 am, normally I don't wake up until at least 7:30 (school starts at 7:50). There was no particualur reason for me waking up at 6, I just did. I went to bed at my normal time of 1:30 am and BAM!!! four and a half hours later I was awake. I'm not happy about it. Anyways I found out about an hour ago there is a shooting threat against CKHS on thursday, so it is an optional day. I think I'm going to go to 4th period anyways. Maybe my car will backfire and cause the entire school to freak out. Hey, that would be kinda funny... espicailly since I'll just be in my car. Ummm, more news. Oh I started tutoring calculus today. Steish helped me, it was fun. I'm not sure if Andy (the tutoree) acutaully needed any help, he seemed to know most of his stuff. Now I'm just waiting for some poor junior in US history... hehehe... Skiing was spectacular on Saturday, I silky light snow, moderate winds, ood visibility, and some my best runs of the year. I actually tricked (spread eagle to a grab), it was awesome. Thanks to those that have signed the guest book. Jessica caulkins if you read this, join knowledge bowl, your school needs you. Other than that Spring sports workouts start tomorrow, hopefully I'm not too out of shape. Godspeed, and may the force be with you. .: posted by Topper 6:41 PMThursday, January 17, 2002Okay, I figured since everyone else has been doing this I might as well jump on the boat, six months late. I'll probabaly be really bad about regularaly posting. and spelling. and grammar. Anyways on the news front: Olympic High School won the summit award at knowledge bowl again this year! My team, OL1, took first over all over-coming a 4 point deficiate going into the final round to beat Bremerton 1 and CK2 by 2 and 6 points respectivaly.In other news, if you haven't heard yet I got into Harvey Mudd College and accepted admission immediatly. I'll be going there in the fall, so I guess I better start buying shorts, since it is in california. Ummm, if you want to here about anything else tell me I guess. .: posted by Topper 10:18 PM |
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