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Vilok
Bio
My name is Vilok. I am 16 years old and a sophomore at Lexington High School. In my spare time I like to watch TV, play sports, and go online. My favorite college sports team is the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Book Review
The Taker
by J. M. Steele
(Check Catalog)
If you have any idea how stressful test taking can be, then this book is for you. Carly Biels is a very smart student whose father is a Princeton alum. Thus, she anticipates that she will also be going to Princeton after she takes the SAT. However, her SAT scores turn out to be much lower than what she had expected. After her scores are revealed to her, she receives an anonymous message from “The Taker” saying that he will take the SAT for her and guarantee a score within 150 points of perfection. The only price is that once the deal is done, Carly will do something “The Taker” asks, or else he will find a way to expose her. Will Carly accept The Taker’s offer? Read this book to find out. It is filled with all kinds of SAT tips and written from a teen’s point of view about the SAT.
Buzzwords
| foofaraw – |
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a disturbance or to-do over a trifle |
| hidrosis – |
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excretion of sweat; perspiration |
| xanthous – |
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yellow |
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Jokes and Riddles
What if Dr. Seuss was a technical writer? Here are several examples of what he may write to help you resolve your computer problems.
- If a packet is a pocket on a socket on a port,
- And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
- And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
- Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
- If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
- And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
- And your data is corrupted ‘cause the index doesn’t hash,
Then your situation’s hopeless, and your system’s gonna crash!
While exploring the wilds of Canada, Wild Man Dave was captured by hostile wood fairies. Brad, the powerful chief of the fairies, told him he could make one final statement which would determine how he would die. If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water. If the statement he made was true, he would be fried in oil. Wild Man Dave found neither of these options to his liking, so he made a statement that got him out of this seemingly impossible situation. What is the one statement he could have made?
Wild Man Dave said: “You will boil me in water.” The fairies were faced with a dilemma. If they boiled him in water that would make his statement true, which means he should have been fried in oil. They can only fry him in oil if he makes a true statement, but if they do, it would make his final statement false. The fairies had no way out of their situation, so they were forced to set Wild Man Dave free.
I see without seeing.
To me darkness is as bright as daylight.
What am I?
A Bat.
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