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Me? I've been doing a lot of research into prime numbers and come up with several interesting equations; unfortunately they're still a bit incomplete.
Shame, as the prize for finding a milliard digit long prime is $250,000, or about £125,000.
I've also developed a program to check whether a number n is a prime, with n being all positive integers from 1.
It's extremely inefficient and not particularly fast, but it works, and I can make the coding more efficient later.

So, what have you done recently that you're proud of?
Can be anything; not just boring programming and mathematics...

Ilaer

I farted earlier.

0_o
Um... Congratulations!
I think...

I'm learning the Russian alphabet.

How much of it do you know? I know absolutely nothing of the Russian alphabet and only three words of their entire language...

I made my 4 1/2 hr trip to school, in less than 3 1/2 hrs :D

Your school's 4 hours and 30 minutes away? Where do you go?!

Ilaer

Edit: Timewarp. Oh, and 500th post! :D

I farted earlier.

I figured out my original password to the forums.

I'm learning the Russian alphabet.

I made my 4 1/2 hr trip to school, in less than 3 1/2 hrs :D

23 dead hang pull ups in one set, 70 sit ups in 2 minutes, and 3 miles in 20:06.

I'm getting to be your regular bodybuilder, yessir!

Not really.:(

I can't manage any of that... :D

Ilaer

I figured out my original password to the forums.

*applauds*
It's always horrible to lose your password...
I've lost access to my Nintendo VIP user account because I forgot the password and my e-mail address used to sign up... :(

Ilaer

23 dead hang pull ups in one set, 70 sit ups in 2 minutes, and 3 miles in 20:06.

I'm getting to be your regular bodybuilder, yessir!

Not really.:(

I made my 4 1/2 hr trip to school, in less than 3 1/2 hrs :DYou're über schizo then?

*applauds*
It's always horrible to lose your password...
I've lost access to my Nintendo VIP user account because I forgot the password and my e-mail address used to sign up... :(

Ilaer
It is horrid. I literally figured it out a few minutes ago. Not sure if it's going to get any use, but meh at least I know what it is now.

I had to work at it, but much to my dismay, I still look like this:
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/stygianwyvern/just%20a%20waif.jpg

*goads into action*
Get building ye-sen up then, ma fine laddie!
Sorry. I have no idea why I just said that.

Ilaer

I can't manage any of that... :D

Ilaer

I had to work at it, but much to my dismay, I still look like this:
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/stygianwyvern/just%20a%20waif.jpg

I am now able to breathe!

Survived the worst day from the flu. Still not 100% better *hackcough-my throat!-hackhackhack*, but the worst is over. Now to see if I can pass my English test tomorrow. . .

I finished a new OS-tan drawing.

Gotten into college.

Today I made muffins, which I had for breakfast and lunch (unhealthy but delicious), cleaned my room semi-nicely, and helped my dad set up my mom's old record player in our living room. :)

Gotten into college.

Awesome, where to?

... community college.

I never thought I was smart enough for college, so I feel good knowing I'm in and doing good.

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So, what have you done recently that you're proud of?
Can be anything

Well, I've been working quite a lot on a fan project dealing with Chrono Trigger and everyone so far has really liked the work I've put in on rewriting the game script and all that, so that makes me somewhat proud.

...but that's it...I've a lot more to not be proud about than to be proud about...

And by that I simply mean that I'm mostly just lounging around without doing anything constructive. I haven't had a job in several months and its been frustrating. Also, I'm overweight.

I am making a brand new life for myself. I quit almost all my jobs, bought new shoe strings, gave away about 40 things today and I just cut my own hair.

in summary, today I went insane.

... community college.

I never thought I was smart enough for college, so I feel good knowing I'm in and doing good.

If I learned anything about you from a random internet forum and a few gabbly conversations, it's that you sound smart!

And community college is just the most cost efficient type of college!

:)

Getting MVP over a kid who was picked up by USC. :p

I made an 11 page thread in spam devoted to machine code erotica.

I'm studing German

Getting MVP over a kid who was picked up by USC. :p

In what?

I.. um.. shoveled the snow for a few minutes?

I taught my son how to make an underwear slingshot. :cool:

If I learned anything about you from a random internet forum and a few gabbly conversations, it's that you sound smart!

And community college is just the most cost efficient type of college!

:)

Meh. I guess it's because I'm so self-conscious and hard on myself that even when I do something good it's never enough for me. College work I find horrible is usually "great" to the professor.

Hell yeah, community college is cheap! 'Tis a lovely thing.

Me? I've been doing a lot of research into prime numbers and come up with several interesting equations; unfortunately they're still a bit incomplete.
Shame, as the prize for finding a milliard digit long prime is $250,000, or about £125,000.
I've also developed a program to check whether a number n is a prime, with n being all positive integers from 1.
It's extremely inefficient and not particularly fast, but it works, and I can make the coding more efficient later.

So, what have you done recently that you're proud of?
Can be anything; not just boring programming and mathematics...

Ilaer

2 poems published in the Southern Review, a fairly prominent literary journal. It's my biggest publication to date.

I taught my son how to make an underwear slingshot. :cool:That's awesome, haha. I taught my son how to make spit balls and the straw cannon method. :D

I'm still maintaining A's and B's in college even though I have become even lazier about my work than in high school when I would get B's, C's and D's.

I'm still maintaining A's and B's in college even though I have become even lazier about my work than in high school when I would get B's, C's and D's.That's pretty good. I'm an uber procrastinator; I always end up doing everything, whether it's a 5 page essay to a small opinion piece, at the last minute usually staying up until wee hours of the morning (6, 7, even 8 am) finishing them up and the worst grade I've gotten was a B. I was proud of that, lol.

In what?

Football.

Well, I guess I graduated from uni.

I created my new Wilgrove-Ruffy hybrid! http://www.metalks.com/images/smilies/jarswim.gif

I also might be selling one of my photos to someone. http://www.metalks.com/images/smilies/camera.gif

I had a Denny's brunch and shared the flatulence with the downstairs' neighbors' doorknob. I have a capacity to lay a stinkbomb that tends to hang motionless and potent until someone happens into its clutches.

I locked myself out of my laptop for a month, then after at least thirty tries with the password... I got it!! Wooooooooh!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

ummm...I guess it'd be winning the Hong Kong indoor rowing comp (2000m) yesterday.
It's 2nd time in 3 years I've won. Last year I lost out to some Czech guy who was the Firefighters world indoor rowing champion. By less than 2 seconds. This year I did a bit more training and took 3 seconds off my time. It could have been more, but as I ended up winning this year by 15s I wasn't under much pressure so took it easy.

anyway, it was ok. something to be proud of I guess.

That's pretty good. I'm an uber procrastinator; I always end up doing everything, whether it's a 5 page essay to a small opinion piece, at the last minute usually staying up until wee hours of the morning (6, 7, even 8 am) finishing them up and the worst grade I've gotten was a B. I was proud of that, lol.

Yeah I used to do that in high school and it would usually work out. However, I'm actually beyond that now. It's come to the point where I barely do my work anymore. Just like today, I have a chemistry prelab and a physics lab due tomorrow and I'm too lazy to even do it. Or my online physics quiz that I just failed because I decided to start it an hour before the deadline and I didn't even read the chapter. I should probably start studying harder or my grades will drop.

I can't tell what I did... it might get me banned again ;) :p

I forced back two Mongol hordes with two thousand janissaries in Medieval II. Many good men fell on that blood-soaked Armenian ridge, but victory was ours.

I'm not particularly proud as such, but I was enough of an idiot to do the hardest question for an english essay, thinking I failed disastrously but ended up doing all right.

I can't tell what I did... it might get me banned again ;) :p
mmm nothing to see here move along
I forced back two Mongol hordes with two thousand janissaries in Medieval II. Many good men fell on that blood-soaked Armenian ridge, but victory was ours.

I'm not particularly proud as such, but I was enough of an idiot to do the hardest question for an english essay, thinking I failed disastrously but ended up doing all right.

dam Mongol hordes

mmm nothing to see here move along


dam Mongol hordes
Unfortunately two more hordes behind the first two came and attacked my army, which was wiped out, and I lost all my then experienced troops. Dammit.

Unfortunately two more hordes behind the first two came and attacked my army, which was wiped out, and I lost all my then experienced troops. Dammit.
hate when that happpens

mmm nothing to see here move along


Hehe... one could indeed say that there was nothing left visible...

Hehe... one could indeed say that there was nothing left visible...

OH MY GOD.

Ew.

OH MY GOD.

Ew.

http://www.reloaded.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/hysterical.gif

Good guess, but no.

http://www.reloaded.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/hysterical.gif

Good guess, but no.

Oh thank Mod!

Nothing, really. Though I'll be giving blood on Thursday. That's something to feel vaguely proud of, I guess (although I consider it something that, because I can do it, I have to do it, so I won't feel particularly proud as such).

Hehe... one could indeed say that there was nothing left visible...

sound like that letter box i did some time back

I've found a legal knack to stop a company that wants to open a new garbage dump an a small community near Milan. We're trying to pass that bill in the next two weeks.

I grew E.Coli. Is that good enough?

i'm quite proud of a leaflet i produced for work that looks great and is... just a good leaflet :)

that's about it really, unless you count a few cool photoshops i did recently

Nothing I could really be proud of - then again, I might also be too hard on myself. I dunno. :(

i don't know if this count for recently, but i passed my first exam in university.

i also looked good in a suit a couple of days ago, wich is nice i guess.

Nothing I could really be proud of - then again, I might also be too hard on myself. I dunno. :(

Umm, you kept this thread alive?

Just finished an 8 page essay on Glacial landscapes.

In recent things?

After spending Saturday digging out of 16 inches of snow, On Sunday,I made a perfect sled run on our property. I dragged a sled full of snow up and down the hill several times til it was perfect.

My three kids and I then proceeded to have the best sleigh riding day ever. The sky was clear,the sun was warm and we rode sleds and made snowmen- and women-ALL DAY. We went back out after eating one of the best pots of chili and cornbread I ever made, and played til the sun went down.

Everything went well. Everyone was happy.

The sun went down,I threw all wet snow clothes in the dryer, lit a fire in the fireplace, popped corn,made hot chocolate and watched a movie.

I dont know if I started in a good mood and everything went well as a result, or if because everything went well,I was in a good mood.

It was a great day. its no small feat to keep three kids ranging from 3 yrs old to a teenager happy.


And-to adress Lunatic Goofballs: In reference to your underwear slingshot- My kid decided one of our snowmen was a pirate, so I tore off my underwear and fashioned an eye-patch for him from them.

Last week I wrote a newspaper story with the aim of raising awareness about epilepsy. This week, I got a letter of thanks from someone whose wife has epilepsy. He said they've seen plenty of articles in national and local media about the condition, and mine was the only one which has portrayed it accurately, without encouraging myths and stereotypes.

I feel pretty pleased about it - stories like that are generally a battlefield where the forces of Get To The Point fight a desperate defence against the invading armies of Be Politically Correct.
Still, it's a poke in the eye for the rest of the profession if no-one else has managed to get it right. Muppets.

Umm, you kept this thread alive?
Didn't look like I did for the longest time. But I would've chuckled had I killed yet another thread. Happens quite often to me, then again, ain't nothing to be proud of, neither!

Didn't look like I did for the longest time. But I would've chuckled had I killed yet another thread. Happens quite often to me, then again, ain't nothing to be proud of, neither!

Actually, that sounds like an incredibly useful skill. I'll call on you next time I see a thread that pisses me off, mmkay?

I got a better job.

I built four 25 amp battery charges and not one of them blew up when they were tested.

Actually, that sounds like an incredibly useful skill. I'll call on you next time I see a thread that pisses me off, mmkay?
I'll see what I can do, right?

Me? I've been doing a lot of research into prime numbers and come up with several interesting equations; unfortunately they're still a bit incomplete.
Shame, as the prize for finding a milliard digit long prime is $250,000, or about £125,000.
I've also developed a program to check whether a number n is a prime, with n being all positive integers from 1.
It's extremely inefficient and not particularly fast, but it works, and I can make the coding more efficient later.

So, what have you done recently that you're proud of?
Can be anything; not just boring programming and mathematics...

Ilaer

You're a mathematician?! *respects*

I grew E.Coli. Is that good enough?
In a petri dish or in your colon?

On topic: I mustered up the patience to stare at locusts through mirrors and lenses counting their breaths for...forever. Then set up all the apparatus underwater.

I was absently banging a pencil on my desk to La Marseillaise when the repeat offender chav in front of me turned round and told me to stop, using the word "fuck" a lot. I asked the people around me if I as annoying them, and, doubtless anticipating the show, they said no, so I switched to Land of Hope and Glory on a pencil sharpener. More swearing. I was genuinly afraid at this point, he was a big guy and giving me a look of pure venom, but I say "Give me a polite answer like a civilised human being and I will." Enraged, he screams about me annoying him... and of course gets sent to the back for shouting in class and being a repeat-offender chav.

It may not be terribly impressive, or just, but it gave me a great feeling of having stood up and dictated terms to the bigger people.

The best thing I've done in the last week...?

I got a new computer (which is still not hooked up yet :() and I got a new mp3 player. :cool:

Me? I've been doing a lot of research into prime numbers and come up with several interesting equations; unfortunately they're still a bit incomplete.
Shame, as the prize for finding a milliard digit long prime is $250,000, or about £125,000.
I've also developed a program to check whether a number n is a prime, with n being all positive integers from 1.
It's extremely inefficient and not particularly fast, but it works, and I can make the coding more efficient later.

So, what have you done recently that you're proud of?
Can be anything; not just boring programming and mathematics...

Ilaer

Cool. Anything in there you'd be willing to share with other people or not? If so, I'll tg you, or vice-versa.

UvV, who happens to be slightly more obsessed with mathematics than is healthy for a 16 year old.

I beat this game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackdown).

You're a mathematician?! *respects*


In a petri dish or in your colon?

On topic: I mustered up the patience to stare at locusts through mirrors and lenses counting their breaths for...forever. Then set up all the apparatus underwater.

A rather eccentric mathematician, yes.
*respects back*

Cool. Anything in there you'd be willing to share with other people or not? If so, I'll tg you, or vice-versa.

UvV, who happens to be slightly more obsessed with mathematics than is healthy for a 16 year old.

I'll do a bit more work on the equations tonight and probably send you a telegram tomorrow.
To be honest, I'd appreciate some help if you didn't mind offering your services.

*is much more obsessed with mathematics than is healthy for a 15 year old*

Ilaer