New Slate

I know, I know, it has been a while since I have posted anything real. Here is the epic saga of my life for the last while (in no particular order):

• I finished last semester. Thermo went well (A- in a 300 level course, I will take that any day of the week). C++ did not go so well....
• I went paintballing with Derek, Dwillard, Hillier, Harward, Mike, and Mike's buddy Matt. It was glorious beyond comprehension. Here are some of the highlights: creative 4 letter combos, the GPS system, and the KFC lady seductively trying to sell us chicken.
• Adventures of various sorts. :)
  

There really isn't anything else to talk about. Sorry for not being clever. If you really need something to enjoy, here is a video of a baby porcupine eating a banana.

ne text message. Look at that David: Two posts in one day. How doeth thou liketh them apples?

Oh, hello...
I just realized that I could do a mobile post from text messages. I basically am doing this to see if I can make a single post longer than o

Biography 1

From 8 Bits to Glory:
The Poo Poosington Story

Chapter One: From Humble Beginnings

After years of hoping for a child, Mr. and Mrs. Poosington were blessed with the birth of their son, Poo. Although the Poosingtons were nothing more than a family of wild yak herders, they were already crafting hopes and dreams for their young boy. They saved everything they could so that they might be able to send young Poo to school, that he might be able to escape his fate in the family business.

In school, Poo showed a great deal of potential. Clever as any young boy could be, he quickly rose to the top of his class, but this bored Poo. By his father's request, he spent hours every day studying and learning. And Poo hated this. When Poo was 12 he ran away from home, never to return...

Chapter Two: Running Away From Home, Never to Return...

At the age of 12, Poo left his home of Pooville. He didn't know where he was going; but he knew just that: He was going. He joined a group of sheep marauders, which he morally disagreed with, but he needed the money. After a few years living the life of crime, he decided he needed to move on, and find an honest job.

Chapter Thee: An Honest Job

After leaving the marauders, Poo set of to find a job that wouldn't one day end him in a Turkish prison cell. That is where he stumbled into a small shop of Eastern Artifacts. Although the shop owner's son was his only employee (which was plenty) he decided to give young Poo a chance. The shop owner, Mr. Kinezu, was getting old and figured it would be about time to think about retiring, and handing the shop over to his son. He thought that he might spend a good year, training young Kinezu to run the shop, and that would give him and Poo adequate time to get to know each other.

For more than a yeah, Kinezu and Poo worked together every day. They sold artifacts and they became friends. They developed hobbies together to pass the time. Their love grew for bowling, tennis, and baseball... but not so much boxing or golf. Every day during lunch, they went out behind the shop and played tennis or baseball, and every night they went bowling. It became their dreams to one day do these sports professionally.

As time went on, Mr Kinezu grew older, and decided it was time to give the shop to his son. He did this in December of 2006, and young Kinezu was grateful. However, he didn't know if he could run the shop all on his own. After a month of owning the shop, Kinezu and Poo were talking, and decided they would sell the shop, and use the money to pursue their dream...

Next time...
Chapter Four: Try Outs

C++

I am sitting in my C++ class right now, and it is really dumb. He is basically just reading some powerpoints and making us watch him. Right now, he is showing us how to write decimals in binary. It is really awesome. Wait...wait... nope, no it isn't. We had to write a program in MATLAB this morning that took the number 1, and added .0001 to it until you got 2. I instead wrote it in C++ and here it is:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include
using namespace std;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
float x=0;
cout <<"start:";
cin >>x;

while (x != 2)
{
if (x <= 2)
{
x = (x + .0001);
cout << x;
cout <<"\n";
}
}
int num;
cin >> num;
return 0;
}
Derek was pseudo proud. I had to have him troubleshoot if for me because I threw in too many semicolons. It was out of control. When I ran it, it pretty much killed my battery. Yup, my computer is THAT awesome. I am pretty sure that the battery percent was dropping so fast that it was skipping full integers on its way down.

Since last semster ended, I got my grades from it. Here is how they are: mediocre.

This class is brutal. I get to sit in here for two hours, three times a week. It is pretty craptacular.

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.

Biruiască

"Oh boy! Oh boy! I hope this is a new mommy!"
"Yeeeah, it's not..."

Pay no heed to the ad at the bottom of the video... unless you like going to hell.

Here are some haikus that I that I wrote about my evening.

The night is too long
I have studied inductance
I refuse to sleep

The engine is done
It does not work like it should
That is super gay

I wrote a report
It is about eight pages
I'm glad it is done

*End Haiku section