The bragging thread

[Nick Theodorakis]

My 12 yo son is on his school's Mathcounts team. At the most recent local level, his team placed third out of 22 schools. After the rounds that determine the individual and team rankings, there is another event in which the top sixteen individuals from the first round compete in a single elimination round. He finished first in that round!

Nick

[Buttercup]

Congrats!

My bragging right: My cat beat up everyone else's cat.

[RAF_Blackace]

My 15 year old son can actually get out of bed sometimes and is learning to talk.

Plus, my eldest daughter got the highest A level results in the UK for her year, made the TV and press.

I have no idea which one I should be more proud of

[cosmocrazy]

My 15 year old son can actually get out of bed sometimes and is learning to talk.

Plus, my eldest daughter got the highest A level results in the UK for her year, made the TV and press.

I have no idea which one I should be more proud of

nice one , congratulations on both counts!

[cosmocrazy]

Congrats!

My bragging right: My cat beat up everyone else's cat.

Your cat is hard!

[cosmocrazy]

I kinda like the theme of this thread but can yet think of something to brag about.. will get back to ya all on this one.

[Mister Earl]

I wrote basic, yet very functional, encryption and decryption functions in visual basic at the age of 12 without ever taking a programming class. It wasn't a basic letter-replacement system, either. It was totally dynamic.

/My crowning achievement. So far.

[LookingSkyward]

I have 2 polite, responsible daughters, and an awesome wife

[clint]

My 15 year old son can actually get out of bed sometimes and is learning to talk.

I suppose you meant to say 15 months? Or does he suffer any speech impairment?

[redshifter]

I had a paper route as a kid.

I also have an awesome wife, and a somewhat polite, usually responsible son.

[Paul Beardsley]

I'm nothing remarkable myself, but I know some really great people, some of them on BAUT.

[chrissy]

I have two very polite kids.

My son is in the army he joined when he was just over 16 yrs old, he is 24 in July. He has a beautiful girlfriend and is planning to get engaged this sunday to her.

My daughter who is 15 next month is going to hike 110 miles (yes that's right 110 miles) for a charity "Help for Heroes" and it is a gruelling route.

[KaiYeves]

My younger brother climbed into an extremely realistic flight simulator with no training and proceeded to pull out of a dive four feet from the ground and then shoot down an enemy plane

[slang]

My youngest kid, at a very young age where she wasn't supposed to be able to read, surprised a doctor by flawlessly reading out loud what the doctor had just written, in handwriting. I probably should mention that she read it upside down, being across the table.

I could program (somewhat) in BASIC before I had even seen a computer up close.

I can be incredible annoying by making fun of typos.

Wow Kai, what was keeping that plain up?

[RAF_Blackace]

I suppose you meant to say 15 months? Or does he suffer any speech impairment?

No, I meant what I said and he has no impediment. If you have any teenagers you will know what I mean

[chrissy]

I know what you mean RAF, my son had a friend who would mumble and I never understood a word he was saying, one day he came around and I deliberately mumbled to him, I was stunned when he replied to me, "I am fine thank you". What shocked me more was I never mumbled anything in particular!

[mike alexander]

I'm the only tar who 'er jumped ship
From Vandervecken's crew.
And I guess that's 'bout the strangest thing
A man can ever do.

[tashirosgt]

The Yale University Library has a picture of my grandfather's chop suey restaurant.
http://images.library.yale.edu/nhsiz...990/257988.jpg

[peteshimmon]

I put a bag of paper in the recycling bin
today!


Oh..and a bag of soft drinks bottles with the
caps removed.

[ABR.]

I got $46 for my recyclables today.

[Paul Beardsley]

I started eating a large bag of Nandos chicken-flavoured crisps but I left some.

[cosmocrazy]

I'm actually sorting through my paper work as we speak...something I ain't done in a very long time!

I'm bored to the bone already!

I need a secretary! any takers?

[GalaxyGal]

I have a loving husband and a loyal Golden Retriever.
My closets are clean and organized.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Not so much bragging, but more of an "I can't believe this actually worked": I managed to resurrect a dead hard drive. I had a 160GB Western Digital My Book external USB drive that stopped functioning -- it would spin up when I plugged it in but then stop after a few seconds, and was no longer seen by the computer. I didn't have any recently created files there that weren't backed up elsewhere, but I probably had some old data that was archived uniquely there. Worse, though, this was the drive that all my music was ripped to. I have the CDs, so I can recreate the library, but what a pain that would be!

After searching around the web, I realized that the drive might only be "mostly dead." There were some blog posts (like this one in which people claim that the power or USB connector might be bad, but the drive itself still good. It turns out that these drives contain a rather "ordinary" SATA internal hard drive (of the kind typically found in desktop computers) attached to some circuitry to convert the SATA into a USB interface, and if you took everything apart, you can just put the drive in a desktop computer that had SATA hard drives.

So I pried open the case and started removing screws until I got the drive loose. After opening my computer's case I saw that it had a free SATA drive bay available and extra power connector for second drive. I bought another SATA cable and connected everything together. After some messing around with the setup menus during bootup, I found some settings that worked, and all my files were there and available! So now I have second internal hard drive.

Apparently there are a lot of "Dead My Book" stories. I can't believe that WD put such an Achilles Heel on what would be an otherwise fine hard drive.

Nick

[mike alexander]

THAT'S a brag!

I just finished putting a set of Buck's Precision Gears in my LX200 and didn't break anything.

[jokergirl]

I'm taking a Discrete Maths class right now!

And I managed to do some exercises/proofs without actually having seen the lectures in which they were explained.

So... as I said to the BF... what does that make us?
Big D*mn Geniuses, Sir!

Ain't we just.

[closetgeek]

Well, it's not much compared to what I have read so far but, a little over a year ago, after realizing how far out of control my life/the household was spiraling, I finally got the nerve to stop repeating the same mistakes. Sorry if that is vague. Despite the resistance, all of my kids have shown improvement is all aspects of their lives. My youngest never passes a quarter without bringing home an academic award. My oldest (the toughest because of her age) brought her grades up from a D/F average to a B/C average and she has a babysitting job. My son has had it particularly rough; his last report card was mostly D/F's and the consistant problem has been staying on task. It's been a month since I took him out of school and I promise I am not giving him any free grades. He has worked hard to earn every A, B, and one C. Because he has my direct attention for the entire day, I grade him on the honors scale, too. He is still having trouble working independantly but we will get there. What makes me so proud of them is not the grades but the fact that they are actually setting goals for themselves.

[GalaxyGal]

Well, it's not much compared to what I have read so far

You're being far too modest. You and your kids deserve a round of applause! Helping one child change their trajectory is difficult, doing it with 3 is remarkable.

Despite the resistance, all of my kids have shown improvement is all aspects of their lives.

Well done!

I help out with a youth group...and I haven't lost any of them on our field trips.

[closetgeek]

You're being far too modest. You and your kids deserve a round of applause! Helping one child change their trajectory is difficult, doing it with 3 is remarkable. Well done!

I help out with a youth group...and I haven't lost any of them on our field trips.

Thanks but Chris Rock's words always ring in my head when he was responding to a father bragging that he takes care of his kids, "Good! It's what you're supposed to do. You want a cookie?"

Come on; be honest. Ever leave one behind? I admit it, my youngest has a habit of realizing she forgot to grab something and getting out of the car without so much as a peep. We've left her behind, twice.

[KaiYeves]

At a college I visited today, the head of Admissions gave a speech where he mentioned "That CERN place, the one in the Dan Brown novel, I can't think of what it's called."

And a hour and a half later, when he had finished his introduction to the school, I went up to him and said "I think you meant the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland."

And he said "That's right. That's what I meant. Thank you."