The group of awesome guys I have been living with for the last year.
Short Introduction: Yesterday, I realized that I have six finals to take and only three days in which to take them. That means two-a-day finals until the end of the semester. In the spirit of laziness which I have tried to uphold all year, I have decided to study later and write a new blog entry now.
Our story begins late on a Sunday afternoon in the partially-lit hallway of Stover 1100. A few scheming hall members decided they needed a hall piano so they could play and sing without walking all the way to the lobby or basement pianos (living on campus and right next to a cafeteria is quite lazifying). After many seconds of deliberation, they decided the only feasible way to accomplish this task was to commandeer the lobby piano. They would have to suffer the long walk to the lobby and back pushing the great weight of the piano, but the thought of increasing the quality of life for posterity made the task bearable. They would have to wait for just the right time and just the right place to carry out the deed (the right place turned out to be where the piano was sitting since it would be hard to steal it from anywhere else).
Alas, the third-person narrative style grew wearisome and our troubled author began to write in first-person as in the rest of his noble blog entries. We had ward devotional at 9:00 that night, after which we concluded that our posterity could not wait another minute for their quality of life to be improved. Luckily, there were old newspapers and church magazines sitting on a nearby table, and we managed to sidle over to the piano undetected using them as disguises. The only problem was that there were other people using the piano at that very moment. After eying the piano suspiciously for a few minutes from behind our reading materials and seeing that they weren't getting the hint, we kindly asked their permission to take a turn on the instrument. They consented (the fact that root beer was being served across the room may have helped).
Right after ward devotional may not have been the most opportune time to steal the piano, but we managed to get the piano from the lobby to our hall without too many strange looks from passersby. It fit perfectly next to the drinking fountain, almost as if someone had planned it this way.
The only remaining obstacle was our Resident Assistant, who was sure to hear something out of place in his hall. After assurances that we moved the piano not for our own selfish desires, but for the greater good of hall unity, he relented. We went on to sing many a religious and patriotic song, firm in our belief and secure in our continuing peace and prosperity in the land of Helaman Halls. Note: only a small portion of the actual singers were present for this photo.
Today, I finally had enough time to let Brian give me a haircut. My hair was so long to begin with that we (Brian) decided it would be fun to shuck me a mullet. He offered financial compensation if I wore it to church the next day, but I decided I was hickish enough just being from Idaho. Here are the results of Operation: Mullet (Click on the pictures for larger versions).
The great thing about a mullet is that your bangs don't impede your vision and your ears are left uncovered, but you can feel your full, luscious hair swaying in the back as you walk. If only I had been warned of this event a couple weeks ago and had not done that trimming in the back...
Here's a shot of the nearly complete mullet, where the sides have not been completely trimmed. Why did I get funny looks walking down the hall?
After the mullet, we decided to go all out hick and give me some skunk tail.
I felt bad about throwing all of this away. What about the burn victim who needs replacement arm hair?
Here are some pretty pictures I made to tide you over until Y Mount I and II are uploaded.
MATH 88Q. The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube—Stanford Introductory
Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Group theory through topics that can be illustrated with the Rubik’s cube: subgroups, homomorphisms and quotient groups, the symmetric and alternating groups, conjugation, commutators, and Sylow subgroups.
