Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The story of my calculator

I've never been a fan of graphics calculators. They're expensive, hard to use and generally useless but my opinion changed yesterday when I witnessed the most valiant effort ever performed by a graphics calculator

An hour into the Maths Exam I needed my neglected Graphics Calculator (who I later named Srgt. Yadav after Yogendra Singh Yadav). I turn it on to be greeted by
"Batteries critically low, replace immediately." I look at the exam, there are heaps of questions which my old calculator, speedy as it is, cannot do.
"Don't die on me graphics calculator!" I scream, in my head.
The screen fades but the calculator is still functional. I quickly punch in some questions, it's still going, I punch in some more and it handles it like a pro. This went on for about 45 minutes, me relying on a dying calculator. It survived the whole exam, on the last question as I wrote the answer down the poor thing died. It had given it's life fighting the war against math questions.




RIP Srgt. Yadav, without your determined fight against time I would have failed the math's exam.

10 comments:

  1. Jordan, can't you put batteries into the graphics to bring it back to life?

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  2. and yes, Sergeant Yadav had the fighting spirit, and fought till the very end!

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  3. Hehe nice story. The way you write makes everything sound so epic. Tonga, generally people dont carry triple-a batteries around with them :/

    But I do actually have some in my bag so I am a bad example :\

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  4. Above poster was not me. I'm afraid someone has stolen my pseudonym.

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  5. anon lurks this blog so much

    who are they?

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  6. well, me,u and onanymous lurk this blog alot so its us

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  7. LULZ!!!! good story jordan

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  8. jordan sometimes when u take the batteries out and put em back in it finds some power for some reason. i know its a lil bit late now, but at least you'll know if it happens again.

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