How many candles can a normal cake hold? Realistically, anything more than 30 is pushing your luck. So how do you go about placing candles for your parent or grandparent? Not to worry — David Yanoshak to the rescue!

Friend: so i put 6 candles on my mom’s birthday cake, lit – lit – not lit – lit- lit-lit
Friend: recognize anything?
Me: The 3rd candle is out.
Friend: 110111
Me: What are the candles’ arrangement?
Me: Oh… for her age?
Friend: yeah
Me: 2^5+2^4+4+2+1
Me: 32+16+7 = 55?
Friend: yep
Me: Way to save candles, ****!
Friend: haha
Friend: and to make her feel better

There you have it, people!  The binary system can really help to make your birthday celebrations a lot more economical!

It has been two weeks since we orientation advisors moved out of Jester East.  For those of you who are wondering where their phone call is, I want to let you all know that I miss everybody, and that I will try hard to get in touch with as many as I can before we get back to UT.

So what have I been up to since arriving home?  Well… put it this way: My parents immediately put me to work.  It was a diverse mix of video editing, cleaning, and taking care of my little brothers.  Besides that, I have been meeting up with my non-OA friends (I miss them too) and studying some things I feel rusty with in EE.