Guess Mine...

I am studying for a math test that I have tomorrow. I have pretty much lost all sanity. There is almost no use in studying anyway, seeing as how this will be a sheer test of IQ. It will just be a quantization of how well you can wrap your brain around an obscure question and answer it. I'm pretty screwed. So here is a list of my friends and which superheroes they would be and why

• Dave- Gambit (because he gambles too much)
• Derek- Ghost Rider (because of just how bitchin' he rides that scooter)
• Stennett- Silver Surfer (because he's from a far off place with a whole surfing-thing going on)
• Hillier- The Hulk (because of how he explodes with rage while playing basketball)
• Forbes- Captain America (because he's dead)
• Gabi- Green Lantern (because I don't know what the hell he actually does)
• Harward- The Tick (because he's big, friendly, and when he's there, you KNOW he's there)
• Andrew- Spider-man (no real explanation needed)
• TJ- Human Torch (because he believes himself to be awesome)

Okay, back to math.

*Edit: Stennett complained, so now he's Batman.

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.

Mode = "What the Hell..."

It's when the value = "What the Hell..." occurs most frequently in a data set.

So, like what? Two months since an update? I am just taking a guess here, but that is what it feels like.

Here is the current scholastic standing.

• Machine Design: Test this weekend. We were promised that it "was going to be hard, but do-able," which translated to "you're all screwed."
• Instrumentation: Test all next week in the testing center. It is completely optional. Midterms are worth 20% of the total grade. This midterm is counted only if we do better on it than we did on the first one. It is pretty nice set up.
  
• Electrical Engineering: Talking about logic. Makes no sense. Kinda ironic.
• Proofs: Don't know what the hell is going on.
  
• Statistics: The professor decided to assign a load of crap right before the end. It hasn't been way nasty... until now. Another test this weekend. Awesome.
  
• Of course, there is also a final in every class.

I think I might have to teach in Elder's Quorum this week. I was told about a month and a half ago that I was going to be teaching the first lesson of every month, but nobody has said anything to me about my topic. I am betting that I get a call on Saturday night...

My phone is broken, and has been for about a week. Luckily I bought a warranty on it and I sent it in today to get it fixed. The replacement phone is Derek's old razor. I like having a flip phone. Like I told him, it makes you feel important. I don't like the non-qwerty keyboard on it. It takes me about a month to type texts.

I am thinking that I am going to steadily move over to my google number. It makes no difference to me as long as the other people aren't on T Mobile.

I should really be studying for one of my tests, but I'm not.

I will end this post with a picture. This is the latest instrumentation project. We had to make a device that measured thrust from a rocket. We made a cantilever beam and attached a few strain gauges to it, sent those strain gauges through a circuit that amplified, removed bias, and filtered out the natural frequency of the beam, and then sent it to a DAQ for registering everything. It was pretty sweet. I'm sure you really, really give a frak.

Craptacular

To start this magical post, I am going to give y'all a picture. It is entitled "Crappiest Day Ever." Let me tell you how the events all went down.
I was leaving to go home from school, and I dropped my laptop. The screen broke, which makes it pretty useless. I bought a TV to replace the screen.
Here is the pic.
So there you have it. Dumb stuff. I'm going to start on my homework now.

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.
  

Unity

Isaac and I just came up with units for some aspects of life that need quantization.

Trustworthiness: 1 Oț
Awesome Personality-ness: 1Ow
Attractiveness: 1 Sy
Insanity: 1 Ni
Irrationality: 1 Kr
Self-righteousness: 1 Ka
Fakeness: 1 Sk
Pimpliness: 1 Gr
Sexual Ambiguity: 1 Ty
Loudness: 1 Hw
Coolness: 1 Fz

There may have been more, but I can't recall. Also, the person for which these units were named have 1,000,000 of them as a standard. For example, Grant Harward had 1MHw, and as a comparison, Dave would have maybe 500 KHw.

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

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