3,2,1 and I'm having fun.

It's late. I know. Shut up. What more, I am too lazy to find my glasses, so I have to be about a foot away from the screen to see what I am typing. If I wanted to, I could go into a long dissertation about what is wrong with my eyes (thank you stupid physics class), and you know what, I don't want to. It has something to do with my 'farpoint' which you don't need to know if you are building rockets.

Work today wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I was expecting it to be a mad house, but really, not too bad. Carrie (our second-cousin-once-removed-divided-by-e-raised-to-the-x-over-the-integral-of-thirty-times-sine-squared-x-dx-from-zero-to-pi-fourths [that integral should look fairly familiar to somebody who recently used it to express his mood]) (actually, she is only our second cousin according to wikipedia right here) ummm... is cool? I kinda forgot where I was going with that. Oh, and she is getting married next June or July. Cindy, don't say anything. Dwill and I aren't sure yet. There is a calorically suicidal cheese on a stick which is bet on it. I am pretty sure I am going to lose.

Here are the important events of what happened today:
1. I bought a camera. It was marked for $400 off. It was awesome.
2. I visited Derek. He had great stories. He wrote a poem about chocolate milk. It was awesome.
3. I talking with Gabi for the entire drive home from Salt Lake. It was mostly a BS session. It was awesome.
4. Dwill and I each got 100 oz of Mountain Dew and watched Monk. Again, it was awesome.
Oddly enough, the most disappointing thing about the day was a Monk episode where they talked about changing the theme music back (long story) but then they didn't. Not awesome.

Oh, and we have gone international. Buenos Dias Nina. And I am sincerely sorry to the poor man in England who stumbled onto this site by accident. He opened two pages, but only stayed on for 19 seconds.

I found my glasses so that I could sit up and type. Take that world.


Bombachus

• A la Dave. This made me laugh really, really hard. I was full of Mountain Dew at the time. Not a good combo. Still, really, really funny.
• Wanna see something weird? Sorry for wasting your time if you clicked on the Wikipedia link and now are seeing all you cared to find out about. Anyway, I know somebody who is their own second cousin once removed. I was going to draft you proof, but anybody who knows what I am talking about can do it on their own. If you notice, there are two slots for "second cousin once removed." One in the right-most column, and one in the adjacent column. If you try it out, it works both ways. One if you start through the father and one if you start through the mother. It is truly amazing... and weird.
• Por Dave. Uh, nope. Changed my mind. Now you'll have to wait to see what it is.
  

a+bt+c(t^2)/2

I have only been at work for an hour, and I am already bored to tears. I've already finished a math assignment that isn't due for another week, so, there you have it. I am kinda abhorring school this week because it seems like it is fake, by which I mean half of my classes are canceled and the other half make it seem like they just aren't trying. There was a disclaimer on my physics class for tomorrow of "YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW THIS!!!!" So that really, really makes me want to go.

I promised Nina that I would make a few dedications to her on here. The first one come by way of Gabi. The only reason that she gets this is because (like the cheese) she is Austrian. Here is another one that comes, well, by way of Nina. You are going to have to click on this link for the movie. It is pretty funny... especially if you understand German... like me. Hast du eine ente?

Why is my text getting underlined? There it goes; it's fixed. Sometimes a person gets irritated to the point where they just have to go into HTML and see what the crap is going on...

Bombachus

• 
• Again, the math (by me) was done on this to verify the accuracy of the math (done by them who made it). I am guessing that all air resistance was neglected, and if so, it would have actually made the initial contact with the ground at 1114 feet, 6 inches, and 12/25ths of an inch if you take gravity to be -32.2 ft/s^2. And for the record, I think Newton would have calculated it in the metric system.
  
• Here is something else that made me laugh.
• And for the record Newton>Einstein.
• Also, da Vinci>Einstein
• Newton+da Vinici>>Einstein
• The three previous bullets may have something to do with the fact that we are working relativity in physics right now. It isn't the most fun.
  

Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop

Today's title is courtesy of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which is one messed-up book.

Here is the epic tale of my day:
I was up last night until about 2:30ish (to be entirely honest, I have no idea what time it actually was when I went to sleep) studying for a math test that I had today. [Note: Math 302 is the most poorly designed class at BYU] I got up at 6:30 (I know that is sleeping-in to some of you) and went to class. I fell asleep in my first class... and my second class. I then decided that it was time for a little "pick-me-up" and managed to scrounge up 400 mg of caffeine to wake up. It sure did the trick. I thought about taking another 600 (for two reasons; One: so that I would be super, super alert for the test, and Two: just so that I could use the word "Centigram" properly in a sentence) but I never did. That was probably for the best because I got really wired after 400mg and thought of the following jokes. Okay, I only thought of one of them. The other I thought of a while ago and it got revamped for the situation.
1: Yo mamma's so fat I feel like every time I see her I should introduce myself as a Jedi Knight and a friend to Captain Solo.
2: Yo mamma's so fat that when the guys from CERN saw her belt, they asked for the Large Hadron Collider back.
If you are fuzzy on why either of those are humorous, you are much less of a nerd than I. Also, when Derek read the second one, he greatly, greatly misread it.
Anywho, I took the test. It lasted a record breaking 3.5 hours. No, this is a record for speed. It is the shortest that a Math 302 test has ever taken. It still sucked.
Now I am home and I am blessed witht the chance to study for a Physics test that I have on Thursday. I know, it is pretty gay.

Bombachus

• This made me laugh really, really hard. (Click the link, not the picture below)
  
• 
• And then I had to do the actual math on this to make sure that they did it right. They did... but they rounded. I would have kept more decimal places.
• For Derek:

Can You Smell What Barack Is Cookin?

Okay, I wasn't planning on doing a new post today, but I was just reading the Washington Post, and I thought that this needed to be addressed as soon as possible. As most of you (at least two out of the three who read this) know, I make no severe attempt at sounding politically savvy. However, I feel that this really needs to be noted. Here is an excerpt from the article quoting our President-elect.

In the news conference, Obama repeatedly stressed the need for a new economic stimulus plan to "jump-start economic growth." He added, "The one thing I can say with certainty is that we are going to need to see a stimulus package passed either before or after inauguration."

There you have it you unbelievers! Obama is a true realmist! What does "realmist" mean? Well, it is a word that I just made up to express the fact that Obama is resolute about passing the stimulus package within our framework of what we call "time." He isn't going to work on some metaphysical level in a realm that we don't understand when he is addressing issues. Here is a picture of the timeline that represents when President-elect Obama will pass the stimulus package.
Hopefully that is visible to everybody who wishes to know exactly when this is going to happen.

Anyone can see my every flaw. It isn't hard

Today's title comes from Jimmy Eat World. If you want to know about flaws, just keep reading and find out about my religion class...

It feels like it has been eons since I have updated anything on here. Sorry to all few of you who actually check this. There really hasn't been anything interesting going on lately. Just school, and that isn't anything new. Lots of tests. Speaking of tests, here is something that just kills me. I have two civil engineering classes, a 300 level math course, physics for engineers, and Book of Mormon. Guess which class I get the worst scores in? Well, if you said physics, you would be right, but my religion class is right behind it. You would think that the fact that I have spent more time reading the Book of Mormon than all of my other textbooks combined would facilitate a higher score in the class. In my civil engineering classes, I have gotten 94's, 98, and 99 (I labeled the x-axis as the x-direction [I know, its dumb to not get 100 for something like that, but it is actually understandable]) on all of the tests that I have had so far. You don't really want to know how religion is turning out.

Right now in mutlivariable calc, we have the glorious opportunity to be working on "Legrange Mulipliers." My favorite part was the fact that there was an asterisk at the beginning of the section. You know, when you see one of those, you have to look down at the bottom of the page to find out what is unique about it. Here, I will let you experience what I thoroughly enjoyed.
13.9 Legrange Multipliers*


I saw this at FYE and I think that a few people might enjoy it. I will give you captions of my thought process.
"Huh... Thats a big gap... I wonder what is supposed to go there... Whats up there before the gap?"
"Duckman? The crap?... Okay, well... whats at the end?"
"Okay, Dukes of Hazard..."

Conclusion: People have been buying a crapload of Ducktales on DVD recently.

Oh yeah, Brain Candy: The Count of Monte Cristo. I've never seen the movie, but the book is pretty good. Kinda slow at points, but I am only a tenth of the way through it. Meaning I am around 210 of 2100 digital pages. I should be on this one for a while. Not like the previous books which have taken me no longer than a week or so.

Okay, well, I have another test in my Mechanics of Materials (Ce En 203) on Friday, and I think I am going to go study for that a bit. Yes, I do actually try to study before I reach the evening preceeding the test.

Oh, and Obama won tonight. Just like the Phillies. I am always going use baseball to predict elections from now on.
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*Knowledge of this section is not required for subsequent sections.
(Brian's translation: You don't actually have to know this.)