Show Me Your Moves!

I have come to the realization that blog posts are replacing facebook updates as I catalogue my life. Here is how it goes up to now:

Took two finals today. Thermo and Aircraft. I did well with one, I got routed by the other. Although thermo wasn't exactly my intended course of study, I have come to realize that I am naturally pretty good with it. I got an A- in my first thermo class (last spring) and I will likely get an A- in this one too. Aircraft... I will likely get a B- or so, which isn't bad considering that the teacher was a fool who never taught us anything useful in the class. Everything I learned, I gleaned from arduous hours of homework as I battled to comprehend what the hell was going on.

I finish the semester's battle on Tuesday.

Right now, I am waiting for David to finish his business so that we can go to Walmart. He has to buy some shirts for Disney World and doesn't want to spend a load on DC/name-brand crap. My favorite shirts are the few that I have with no logos/icons/anything on them. I'm no slave to society. Speaking of which...

Oh, the cylon is great. I'm pretty sure that Zeus descended from Mount Olympus, created LeBron James, programmed and compiled Pandora, and promptly went back. I stream Pandora roughly 6 hours a day, which over a month comes to 180 or so hours. Recently, more attention has been paid to rating (thumbs up or thumbs down) the music that it selects for me. Like SkyNet, it is slowly learning who I am and what I approve of. Every time I add a new artist to my current "Radio Station," I have to make sure that it doesn't pollute my ears with garbage, but it has been doing really well lately. There is usually only one or so "Who do you think you are?" moments per hour.

Alright, so we went to Walmart and then to Hillier's. We had another "Finals Olympics" event. Hillier and I purchased some herring filets and sardines. The event was simply to eat them. Everybody who did won a gold medal. I won; Hillier won; Dave gets an honorable mention.

Current medal count

1. Brian: 3 Golds
2. Hillier: 2 Golds, 1 Bronze
3. Isaac: 1 Silver
4. Forbes: 1 Plastic Case with Poo inside

Bombachus

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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.

Pies y Piernas...

Bienvenidos al a clase de espanol!

So my phone has been out of commission for the past 3 days. I don't know if people are talking to me!!! Here is what has been going down since I wrote last, which wasn't too long ago.

• School

And just to show Derek who is boss...

What what? That's right, came through on the promise! It might not be youtube, but who cares. Still a link to a vid.

I had a test in thermo today and got killed. It wasn't at all what I was prepared for. I learned how to do a bunch of cookie-cutter problems, and none of them were on the test. It was pretty dumb. Hoping for partial credit.

There should be a huge update tomorrow. Maybe. Maybe not. As for now, I'm going to try to get some homework done.

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

9.81 m/s2

Record time today for a math test. 1.76 hours. Now, if you can't sleep very well at night, you should know that 76% of an hour is 45 minutes and 36 seconds. This was exceptionally quick considering that most of them took upwards 3 hours last semester.

I have another test on Thursday. It is in my manufacturing class. It will be either A) unreasonably easy, or B) viciously hard. I'll keep you all posted so that you know. I am going to study for it today so that tomorrow I can spend the majority of the day in the CAD lab. Fun stuff.

Last Friday we went out to a huge hole in the middle of nowhere. We proceeded to hurl flaming pieces of garbage down the shaft. The sad part of the whole thing was the fact that I was generally more interested in timing the fall and calculating the depth of the shaft than just tossing stuff down.

Saturday consisted of going to Hillier's sister's wedding. I drank some sort of green drink in aspiration of being a billionaire super-hero one day.

Fact: Billionaire super-heroes drink green beverages.
Proof:
I'm going to get back to homework now.

I ate some bugs, I ate some grass...

So it has been many moons since I updated this. Sorry. It's not like there is ever anything interesting here anyway. Here is the lowdown of my mental process last night as I studied for my dynamics test.

Okay, I’ve really got to do this, or else I will fail, like I almost did on my physics test the other day. Huh… I wonder if the grades have been updated online for that since I took that test Nope, not yet, but it at least it still shows that I’m still in a high percentile in the class. I wonder what my current percentage is against all the possible points that I could have so far… Eww… I wonder what would have to happen in the remainder of the semester for me to still get an A in the class… Eww… okay, how about a B… Okay, okay, I’ve really got to study for this dynamics test. Okay, First ting I have to do in a work-energy problem is define positions and a gravity datum. Okay, that pretty easy. Second, I need to set up my T1+V1+U1-2NC=T2+V2. That’s simple enough, but which ones can I get rid of right off the bat? Oh my crap, I've got the best story ever. I’ve got to tell Derek about this Okay, I need to study for this test… but I need a drink first Um… ice. Okay, now I am going to go study for this test. So the T’s are kinetic energy and the V’s are potential energy, that’s simple enough. Set both T’s to mv^2 /2 and hope that one of them isn’t moving at the time so you don’t have to deal with two unknown velocities. V’s are k (delta)^2 /2 + mgh where delta is the additional length in the spring. I’m kinda hungry now too. Let me see what I can find here… Hey, little nacho cheesy things. Hey, you know what I should do tonight? I should watch Nacho Libre. That is probably one of the best movies ever. “Chancho, when you are a man.. sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room… it’s for fun.” No, no, I should really study for this test…
Okay, now I’m screwed.

I just remembered that I can't use the little <> thingies when I am switching from HTML editing and normal. They disappear! Well, kinda...

I took the dynamics test today. It wasn't that bad. Quite unlike my physics test.

I'm gonna find something interesting to do.

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...