HaHA!

For some reason, whenever I'm bored, I never think to post to this thing. Except for right now. Right now I just remembered.

Dave sold Derek and I some cards for a nursing thing fundraiser. Last night we went to Trafalga with them and each got two free games of mini golf. We didn't play our games sequentially, we played six balls at the same time. These were the rules:

1. If you were playing on an odd-numbered hole, you shot one ball, then the other. After you, somebody else did the same thing and the hole was played in this fashion.
2. If you were playing an even-numbered hole, you shot one ball, then the next player went, and the loop continued in that fashion.
3. If you were playing a prime-numbered hole (and later perfect squares as well) you had to shoot both balls at the same time. This rule supersedes the previous rules when determining the style of hole.
4. If somebody gets a hole-in-one on a prime-numbered hole, they got to shoot all six balls simultaneously on the next prime-numbered hole.
5. Bad-Ass points are awarded for doing something awesome.
6. Dumb-Ass points are awarded for doing something stupid.
7. Dick Treason can be called if you rob somebody of a shot within 6 inches of the hole.
8. The 18th hole is treated as prime if a hole-in-one is made on the 17th hole.

It seems like there were a few more rules that were made up, but you get the idea. Also, if you're reading this, you were also likely there...

This semester sucks. Capstone needs to go away. It is one semester too long. I've been spending a lot of time down at USS and we had a design review last week where we were told "you should be afraid of not finishing." I don't really care.

Geophysics isn't too bad. The teacher isn't too spectacular, but she does try to make it interesting. The class's redeeming quality is that the class number isn't preceded by "ME EN" making it a change from the standard I've been experiencing for the past four years.

Tonight, Dave is hosting "Geektober" which is odd, because it is February. "Geekuary" really doesn't have the same feel to it though.

The distributor that I use for my weaponry is currently out of stock of anything and everything that interests me. It is a bit of a pain in the ass. I can't say that I am overly pleased with the fact that I have no guns to sell right now. I have my AK, but as indicated, it is mine and I won't be selling it anytime soon.

I have posted a picture of a magazine that I created. The last gun that I sold initially came with two mags and a hard case. I sold it with one mag and no case, but for less than I initially intended. I did this to one of the mags and quite enjoyed the project.

Yes, you could hide amongst a herd of zebras and nobody would even know you were there...

Also, I've decided to post a picture from last September, when Derek and I went off on a grand adventure around the world. It is entitled "Derek Picked Horrible Breakfast, So He Can't Criticize Brian For Horrible Dinner"

This was at breakfast. Derek carried a similar expression at dinner.

Bombachus

• I'm gonna live forever!

But it comes with a free frogurt! That's good! The frogurt is also cursed. That's bad! But it comes with a free choice of toppings! That's good!

Alright, these are the cool stories that have happened as of late:

I went climbing 4-ish times last week. It was pretty spectacular.nthrope last one was even a multi-pitch climb where I had to belay Jon and Dave from the top. Way different. Way fun. One of the other times held a great story which will be told in conversation form...

(Jon climbing, me belaying, Dave wandering)
"HEY GUYS! THERE'S POT OVER HERE!!" - Dave
"Really? Like, just growing?" -Jon
"No, in Dixie cups. Five of them." -Dave
"You sure? Bring one over. I want to see if it is" -Brian
*walk, walk, walk*
"Yup, that's pot." -Brian
"What should we do with it?" -Jon
Then all sorts of ideas evolved, none of which I shall post here. The final idea was great. Lets leave it at that.

We had a poker game on Friday night. Me, Derek, Jon, Mike, Maile, TJ, Kelli, and TJ's baby. Yeah, they brought the baby. Further, TJ brought World of Warcraft and "ran a bot" during the entire poker game. It wasn't that he was running the bot, but more of the fact that he was doing all Kelli's work (betting, blinds, shuffling, dealing...) since she had the baby, and that he was actually playing WoW more than letting it just run. Way frustrating. Also, the game was 8.5 hours long. We finished at 5:30 in the morning. I won, and it became worth it. Derek would have won if he had waited for Mike and I to call his "all in" bet before showing us that he had four of a kind...

Froyo (AKA Android 2.2) "came out" yesterday. This means that somebody found where Google was harboring it on their site, gave the world access to it, and now we don't have to wait for the OTA update. Now it can act as wifi hotspot, tethered modem, supports flash (except hulu [bastards...]) and all sorts of other bells and whistles. It is really sleek now. It runs faster and is just continuing its overall awesomeness. Last night I started downloading stuff over its wifi-ness and it got about 1.8 gigs in 3 hours. Not great, but gets the job done. What do you expect from a phone anyway?

My sleep schedule is broken. I was up until about 6 this morning, then got up at 9. I slept until 3 yesterday afternoon after going to sleep again at about 6 am. I got up at around 10 the day before (which was early), after going to bed at 4 the night before. To recap...

If I was going to bed at 10 every night, and waking up at 6 every morning, these are the time zones I lived in:

Thursday night: went to sleep in Vanuatu

Friday morning: woke up in Samoa

Friday night: went to sleep in Japan

Saturday morning: woke up in the Philippines

Saturday night: went to sleep in Japan (again)

Sunday morning: woke up in Hawaii

None of this accounts for daylight savings time. I just counted timezones. It seems like I've been spending a lot of time in the pacific.

Bombachus

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• There's an XKCD about the shifting timezones thing (which is where the idea originated) but I can't seem to find it.

In Soviet Russia, block knocks you.

It has become somewhat of a ritual to do a blog post when I'm pulling all-nighters. Pofta buna.

Here are the benefits of all-nighters:

• More time than chumps who sleep
• Texting people in the middle of the night
• Lucidity

"Brian, what do you mean by that last one?"

Well, let me explain. Most 'normal' brains apparently start to shut down on a lack of sleep. People begin to lose a comprehension of reality and can't think straight. My (and I believe Dave's) brain works exactly opposite. As time goes on without sleep, it starts tapping the 92% that isn't normally used and things become a lot easier to understand. I can spend a week on a topic and not really understand it *cough* shear flow *cough* but as soon as I'm working on it around 3:00am, it all becomes super easy. For example:

"But Brian, that's wrong..."

Yeah, but but now I know exactly WHERE it went wrong.

Anyway, I've got my two hardest finals on Friday (4-16-10), but I think that if I completely disregard my others until Saturday, I'll be fine.

According to Pandora, today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to me.

Bombachus

• Structurally unsound


• Harward and I once came up with The George Lucas Microsoft Paperclip. He would pop up during the Star Wars movies and explain why he ruined all the things he did. E.g. Greedo shooting first. This reminded me of it.

The Maw

Finals week starts tomorrow, and this is how it is all going to go down for me.

• Monday: Likely take the instrumentation final. Timed: 3 hr.
• Tuesday: Scheduled electrical engineering final. Timed: 3 hr.
• Wednesday: Scheduled machine design final. Timed: 3 hr.
• Thursday: Only real chance to do the statistics final. No time limit.
• Friday: Scheduled proofs final. Timed: 3 hr.

If any of you were with me last April, you might understand that I am ecstatic that 80% of my finals have 3 hour time limits (and it is bad form to pluralize units if they are abbreviated. You don't write "12 ins, 15 mis, etc.") since my differential equations final took me 6 hours to complete. I took it on a Friday, and I spoke with a kid before I took it who said that he just walked out after four hours without finishing. It was mind bottling that somebody would deliberately not finish a final, but after I took it, I understood.

I get to takes some notes into two of my finals, so I am working on those. I've never been more appreciative of 4-6 pt fonts before in my life. Too bad we can't take in microfiche with us.

Liver destruction continues with Dr. Pepper this evening.

I really appreciate the option on the facebook homepage that lets you hide stories that you don't want to hear about. Anybody who takes tons of quizzes or posts crap that I don't like gets hidden, and I never have to see or hear from them again. It is probably better than the defacing the sprees that I went on during the baseball playoffs. Removed a lot of 'friends' those few weeks...

I'm currently on a "Killers" kick. Although, they have more than one album, they might as well not. It all goes downhill after the first one. There are still a few good ones, but very few.

I just noticed that the authors of my instrumentation book are Figliola and Beasley. It is funny because I am currently working on a side-project that we call "Beesley." Also working on another called "Elf" and another that I am just going to call "Saga." Code naming things makes even the most boring of things seem interesting. Oh the things we do to keep ourselves occupied. Discreet Fourier Transforms are so awesome, aren't they?

Saturday is the ward Christmas party. (Just had to do a little HTML edit to fix my font) This will be the first ward activity that I have ever gone to. It should prove to be quite entertaining. Bowling at the WILK and then ice skating. I asked Dave if we could try and Iron Lotus while there. He said no. Good choice.

Bombachus

• Looks more like a Rick Hamburger Bun

Well, enough time has been adequately wasted. Time to get back to work.

I've Got Soul but I'm Not a Soldier

So, I haven't posted in a bit. I'm sure that everybody and their dog is curious what I have been up to. Here's a hint: nothing.

School is about the same. My classes are hard as hell, but they are great. I mean, I chose this, and I love every day of it. Well, not test days.. or days with lots of homework. So, I love some days. Here is a rundown of what I am working on in each class right now:

372: Combined loading and finite element analysis
363: System analysis and Wheatstone bridges
301: Resistor stuff and Wheatstone bridges
290: Proofs
495: Probability

Overall, it isn't way, way nasty yet. I'm sure it will get worse. I have a test at the end of this week, and another at the end of next week. The Gauntlet begins.

On a lighter note, I went on a date tonight with codename: Monday. Why is she known as Monday? Well, it is just easier that way. It was great. We went to a restaurant and got some sort of cinnamon beef and deep fried cheesecake. It was fattening and delicious. With any detective work at all, you can probably figure out who Monday is. Anybody who knows can't share the secret. It is more fun that way.

Bombachus

• This was disgusting, but made me laugh. I may have posted it before, but I am too lazy right now to go look.
  

New Slate - August 2009

It is officially August 31, 2009, which means that today I start school... again. Well, I never really left it to be entirely honest. I have only been on a 2.5 week break, which was glorious. This is the current line up for this semester (deemed "Semester from Hell" [aka "Lucifer's Delight"]):

1. ME EN 372 Mechanical System Design Fundamentals
2. ME EN 363 Elementary Instrumentation
3. EC EN 301 Elements of Electrical Engineering
4. MATH 290 Fundamentals of Mathematics (Hey, it is going to be harder than 'fundamentals' may indicate...)
5. ME EN 495 Some Statistical Thing

I start off every semester with the attitude of "I'm not going to fall behind" and that lasts (at most) on week. I have the same attitude right now, and I'm aiming for two weeks this time...

Bombachus

• Shaq vs. Watch it. Love it
• The Only Level
• Spotlight
• Sleep
  

log(xB)

If you get it, then you win 50 extra points which can be applied to a variety of flavored beverages.

The purpose of this post is the same as it was this time last semester: to get my notes for my math test tomorrow down somewhere, just to help me remember it. This will be the format for the notes

Section number- what knowledge can be acquired by learning the section

How to do it, in Brian terms.

Here is the breakdown by sections:

7.1 Transforming a second order differential into a system of first order differential equations

Set x₁ to u, aşa că u'= x'₁

Then set x₂ also to u', and then u''=x'₂

Get the original equation in terms of x₁ equal to x'₂

7.2 Verify that a given vector satisfies a given equation

Learn basic linear algebra

7.3 Determining linear relationships between vectors

Give all vectors a constant in an equation similar to

C₁x₁+C₂x₂+C₃x₃=0

Write as an augmented matrix

Solve and pray they are all different constants

Part II Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors

...Find the eigenvalues.

...Find the eigenvectors

7.4 Finding the Wronskian of a given vector, finding the interval of linear independence, find a system of equations that verify linear independence

You're given x₁ and x₂ vectors

Find W, and where it is zero, those values don't exist. That means that the interval of linear independence is everywhere that those values aren't.

The system of equations that verify linear independence is found by simply finding a vector that satisfies x'=Px

7.5 Find the general solution of a given system with different, real eigenvalues

Find the eigenvalues(these will be known as r₁ and r₂), then the eigenvectors (represented by ξ₁ and ξ₂)

Your solution is of the form x=c₁ξ₁e^r₁t + c₂ξ₂e^r₂t

...Yeah, it is taking too long to do the html code on this, and I won't do it otherwise... so I won't do it any more.

Bombachus

• Bill Gates' Facebook
  

The person who realized you can pop corn deserves a Nobel Prize.

Professional Whistling

I am sitting in my manufacturing class, which I hate. My teacher is pretty incompetent. We are just watching movies today about MEMS. It is pretty dumb. I can do this on my own, and I don't have to get up at 7 to do as such. It seems as though most of the class is of the same opinion. From where I am sitting, I can see 14 laptops out, and I will bet there are at least 8 to 10 more that I can't see. Everybody on my row has one out, and not one of us are paying attention.

This week, I have no tests. I do, however have a lot of foot-work to do on my 282 engine. I am hoping that I can get the frames done today so that we can run a test assembly. Also, I have spent around 20 hours since last Thursday in the CAD lab. Final pictures to come soon.

Well, I had better get back to work, but first, here is some deliciousness:

Bombachus

• Goomba vs. Roomba
• I, King Julian

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I finished my math today in 13% of my battery. How did I do this: Eigenvalues.

Bombachus

• This really bothered me. I hope it bothers you too.
  
• I laughed, I cried.
• Owls. And were you aware that he was the king of the beavers? Me neither.
  

There are >12 Cylon Models.

So, it is Sunday afternoon and I need to start studying physics and math. Why? Because I have a few tests this week. It seems as though all my classes like to correlate when they give us tests.

Dave got a Mr. Jass television. It is quite nice to sit down and watch Dahl's sequel to the BFG. Speaking of which (Derek, cease reading here unless you've seen it), Daniel (#7) could be one of the following people:

• Starbuck
• Baltar
• Somebody else

I will go as far to guarantee he is one of those.

Yesterday was Valentines Day. I watched Jurassic Park. Not usually what people think to watch on Valentines.

In the hunt for pictures or things to post. I found this from the mission. Owens had some mittens that got a make over. This is what they looked like after Nina got a hold of them.
Bombachus

• This really made me laugh.

The Cylons Were Created by Man

For it is a holiday weekend, which means the following things.

1. I will work everyday
2. I will tell myself that I am going to try to catch up on homework and studying, but won't
3. Sunday midnight basketball.

Number 3 is rationalized by the fact that it isn't technically the sabbath anymore. It has been a traditions almost every time there has been a Monday holiday.

I really don't have that much to say.

Bombachus

• There are a lot of lacking ships. Like a firefly.
• For Derek and Dwill

The Lion King: To Be Successful, Sometimes People Got to Die

This entry is dedicated to the ever diligent D-Mac. He has been bugging me to update my blog for eons, and now I finally am. Hooray to all of my diligent readers. All two of you.
So, nothing really too eventful has happened over the past weeks. I got a B- out of my math class. I initially thought that I was going to have to retake it, but no; I get to move on. What more, I can still minor in math. I have one more beastly math class, then I have two which shouldn’t be too bad. They might even be kinda fun.

Oh, Forbes got married yesterday. Congrats buddy. I got to go to the ceremony and the luncheon. It was actually really fun. The night before we went, Hillier, Stennett and I all played pass the pigs and watched Pastor Melissa Scott. It was great. We have also set up a Super Nintendo and played Super Mario World. Again, great.

I bought another Nixon. David is a bad influence. So is Whiskey Militia. Speaking of which, I need to find my Δ because there is a fancy little place here in the mall that offers unlimited batteries for 5 years. This is beneficial for the following reasons: 1. The Δ batteries are about $20 a pop, and 2. They need to be Δed about once a year.

Bombachus

• This is the worlds largest Liger. This is the world's most famous Liger.
• 7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible (Awesome) Lessons

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.
  

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)
  
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• 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:

2. "Daffodil"

It has been a while since anything has been posted. Here is what's up...

No tests this week.

That is about it. I am going to try to spend a good portion of this week studying for the tests which are coming next week. Fun stuff.

This rarely gets implemented in the blog, but here is the week's Brain Candy- Ender's Shadow. I only started reading it on Sunday after conference, cause I was sick and really didn't have much to do, then I read it yesterday between classes. I am liking it so far. It is interesting the contrast between this and Ender's Game. Probably even more contrast to Bender's Game.

Bombachus

• Every single day...

Do-de-do-do-do-do-do Vote for me.

Ok, so it has been a day. That is about all I can say for what has happened. Everybody in my mechanics class was complaining about how hard the test was and about how they were crushed under the time limit (2 hours and 15 minutes) and so I am more worried about having done it wrong now. If everybody else is crapping chickens over it, I think I have reason to be worried.

In my dynamics class, my teacher just told us stories all day about how he made 8 satellites and accidentally blew them all up on the launch pad. It was awesome. Math was just a dumb presentation about rocks. I used the time that was presented to me to try to study a bit for the math test. It is useless. I am dead.

Here is the final revised analogy for mathematical proofs. It is like reading the Lord of the Rings books (all of them) after having watched the movies. You know what is going to happen in the end, but for some forsaken reason, you have to go through the arduous process of finding out all of the lewd details about how it happened anyway. Then you are often required to site all of those details, and sometimes explain how to get back as well. Poor....

I just bought 20 liters of soda.

Bombachus

• I saw this at BYU. It made me laugh. It is the only place in the world where you would have to make sure that everybody knows it isn't a spiritual plant.
• This also made me laugh quite a bit. I don't have an 360, but I can laugh all the same. I am saying that it is getting posted in honor of Iron Man coming out on Tuesday.
  

Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?

As I have explained to various others, today was filled with mixed emotions and lots of events. The job fair was today, and it was quite fun. To be honest, I was kinda nervous going in, but it was pretty easy, and I thought I did fairly well. I got to talk to the guys at Stark.. er... um.. Lockheed Martin, and I even got a little flash to usb drive with the Stark, no, Lockheed Martin logo on it. Hooray for swag.

I also had the opportunity to take a test today. I was unreasonably nervous for it. Well, who knows? I haven't gotten my grade back, since it was all handwritten. Usually the tests for my civil engineering classes take me about 2 hours to complete, but this one took me about 30 minutes. I know, it is unreal, so I took some time to look it over and make sure that I wasn't just fooling myself, and that I actually did it right. After about 10 minutes, I could see neither of the following: 1. anything wrong with my work and 2. any other way to do it. I guess we will see

Here is a picture that a few people might enjoy.
Those of you who were in Cluj with me know the glory of Choco Tacos. Especially Nina. She loved them.
Bombachus

• G1
• I was just listening to a Linkin Park song, and my computer thought I told it to switch to adium.
  

Dodge This...

Its Sunday afternoon, and I am procrastinating doing my homework due to an asinine assignment that I had yesterday. It was one math assignment, and it took me around 5 hours to complete. The most useful thing that anybody can take away from what I was working on is that the plural of "matrix" is not "matrixes." That is pretty much the most applicable thing to real life. Let me tell you some thoughts which have coursed through my head somewhat frequently in the last year or so...

"Hey, this is kinda interesting... maybe I should become a math major..."
"That's stupid, why would you do that?"
"I don't know. It is interesting and I am kinda good at it."
"But what about application?"
"Well, yeah, there's always that."
"I mean, math is great when you couple it with physics, but what is math alone? It's theory."
"Yeah..."
"So, what do you say?"
"... I guess I'm gonna stay in engineering..."
"That's right. Now go get me a taco."
"Wait, you're just my brain talking back to me. Why would I get you a taco?
"Just do it."
"Yes sir."

And that is how it goes.

Bombachus

• I saw this shirt and it made me laugh. Oh, don't get me wrong, I would never wear it in a million years, but that isn't to say it wasn't humorous.
  
• This is in honor of the math dissertation that just took place.

Hey, no math for today! Instead, Dynamics! (Which includes a great deal of math)

Strain: Dimensionless

So here is the great story of the day. I have this professor {Dr. Christiansen [I call him Hank (but not to his face)]} who is a total pimp. He teaches all of my civil engineering classes. I had him at the end of last semester for Ce En 103, and now I have him for both Ce En 203 and 204. Anyway, one of the best parts of what he does is how he responds to stupid questions. Today, we were talking about stress and strain on materials. And this is about how the conversation went...

"So, as you can see, you divide your units, and since it is unit length per unit length, strain is dimensionless." -Hank

"Wait, Dr. C, so do you want us to write our strain in, like, inches per inches?" -Dumb student

"Uh... no... I just barely told you it was dimensionless...."

Most people aren't going to appreciate that for what it is, but a few of you out there will love the hilarity of that.

I came home with the full intention of doing my homework early and having a relaxing night, but I fell asleep for 3 hours. Now it is about 9:30, and I am still facing a butt-load of homework. Lewd.

Bombachus

• Oh, it happened again, and this time there is proof...
• The only reason Dubai exists to create crap that is amazing, which nobody really needs. For example, I am going to live here one day...

Time to get working on homework... as always.

The Soviet Union will be pleased to offer amnesty to your wayward vessel.

It was the first day of class for BYU. For me, it wasn't really all that bad. I only have one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I got eased into it. I was trying to keep all of my classes on only Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but unfortunately my math is taught every day, so there was no way around that. I guess that math must be important or something.

Today we put primer on the walls of the room. We also painted. I am getting progressively more excited for it to get done as the end gets nearer. x^2 excited. The more it looks like a room, the more excited to get out from underneath the stairs. That's right, I live under the stairs. Stennett likened it to Harry Potter, except I have a window. Kinda. It is covered by a gigantic whiteboard. So its more like a shelf.

Bombachus

• Luke Skywalker's lightsaber in space. This actually happened.... boo...
• This picture makes me really want to go into space...
• Okay, the previous comment wasn't about the hot dog, but the picture you will get if you click on the link.
  
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• It would be stupid if it weren't for the asterisk in the lower right hand part of the banner. It makes you wonder... were they trying to be funny, or avoid a lawsuit like these...

I'm going back to the demoness of integrals.