frozen finger
One of the Thinsulate fingers in my glove is torn at the end, so my finger is nearly exposed to the direct elements of nature, except for the thick layer of wool in between it and the air. But today’s erroneous winds and masterful wind chill brought our temperature way waaayy waaaayyyyyy below 0degF. Thus, I noticed my finger becoming rather uncomfortably cold. The wind way even blowing through my denim jeans…what’s with that?
Yesterday I got a ‘mocha’ following my dreadful multiVar class. Well, I ordered a mocha. But instead, I got a ::what?!:: hot chocolate!! I didn’t realize it until I had left the place (’what is going on…it just tastes like chocolate?!’). I’m not that fond of straight chocolate and water. Any moderately experienced barista would know that a mocha refers to a mocha latté (or in Starbucks terms a Café Mocha). Although I guess these aren’t true baristas now are they? More like…college students. Arg. Anyways, I made it through that one. But that shan’t happen again.
Last night was the EF mandatory meeting at Burruss. It was a lecture on the Columbia disaster a year ago. The guy was using a 15″ PB for his slides so my attention was immediately enthused (an engineer, a NASA engineer at that, that uses a Mac gets my cranial focus any day). I was truly amazed at the information he had to share with us. One particular collection of slides/videos was from a re-creation of the accident. After many computer hours (even when you use a supercomputer, sometimes it takes hours to perform ultra complex operations and scenarios) this team came up with a flash-type video of what happened, how the foam struck the wing, how big the hole was, etc. Then he showed a video of their actual-size lab test of the event. The lab result was almost perfectly identical to the computer estimates in terms of forces shifting, not to forget that the hole size/shape was identical from the computer simulation to the actual test. I was amazed. It was just incredible to intake the material he had to present to us. Unfortunately, many Wintel users brought their laptops to play solitaire or chat on AIM. ::gag:: Oh well. The power/electricity did go out at one point. Apparently it went out all over town. Interesting. Clocks to reset, definitely.
Then today was just a great day of getting back to my more favored classes: EF, Comm, Physics. My physics prof TS Chang is brilliantly genius. He performed the calculation of the squareroot of the quantity [(-113)squared + (247)squared] in his head. After approximately 7 or 8 seconds he said ‘um…272…yeaaah…it’s 272.’ Most of the lecture hall slightly began to laugh at his abilities, and then people got out their calculators. The actual answer is 271.62, or rounded to 3 sigfigs as he likes…272. Woah. That was intense. I like that class. For now at least.
And then an Apex practice was this afternoon. And more stuff to take care of tonight.
I need more feedback about the new design. I haven’t gotten enough to decide whether or not to keep it for any length of time.
Alright. Ok. Lookin’ Good.