The good and the bad
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akujunkanI'm good at math, but understandably rusty after not really having touched the stuff for oh, close to a decade. So you, dear reader, will understand why I get extremely pissed off when the Barron's GMAT Study Guide prints erroneous statements in the mathematics sections. I've caught three of them in the first 27 pages - that's an average of one mistake per nine pages. It makes me wonder how many other errors I haven't caught in the bits I'm still scratching my head over. That said, study continues apace; if I can master this stuff by the end of next month, I should be able to take the GMAT in time to get preferrential consideration for student loans.
In completely unrelated news, this is the definition of cute.
(I would like to respectfully point out, however, that 'gohan' does not mean 'tasty rice dish' as much as it means 'meal.')
C&Ped here for when the original article disappears.
Hamster, snake best friends at Tokyo zoo
‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ zookeeper says of unlikely pairing
Updated: 6:53 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2006
TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a yard-long rat snake.
Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name is a tasty rice dish in Japanese — to Aochan as a snack in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.
[A hamster named Gohan and a snake named Aochan live together in a cardboard box at Mutsugoro Okoku zoo, near Tokyo.]
But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.
"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.
Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan — despite her name.
"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."
The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.
But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.
That will be all.
In completely unrelated news, this is the definition of cute.
(I would like to respectfully point out, however, that 'gohan' does not mean 'tasty rice dish' as much as it means 'meal.')
C&Ped here for when the original article disappears.
Hamster, snake best friends at Tokyo zoo
‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ zookeeper says of unlikely pairing
Updated: 6:53 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2006
TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a yard-long rat snake.
Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name is a tasty rice dish in Japanese — to Aochan as a snack in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.
[A hamster named Gohan and a snake named Aochan live together in a cardboard box at Mutsugoro Okoku zoo, near Tokyo.]
But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.
"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.
Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan — despite her name.
"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."
The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.
But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.
That will be all.
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on 2006-01-20 08:57 am (UTC)Um...cuz I'm dumb and forget, what's GMAT? You going to grad school next year? Where at? What for? I should have applied and stuffs....oh well next year. -.-;
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on 2006-01-23 05:35 am (UTC)Graduate Management Admissions Test. In other words, an overpriced standardised test with arbitrary and counterintuitively written questions.
Incidentally, are you going to see the Pillows tour this time around? I'm thinking about it meself.
I'm looking into a Japanese-focused MBA. Fingers crossed I get in, cause I have no plan B.