Archive for January, 2005
Ski Sundown
I went to Ski Sundown today. It’s not a very big mountain, but we hadn’t gone in two years and it was a Sunday, so why not. Woke up bright and early at 7:00 and got there for 9:00 when the lifts started. I thought that someone there was Amy, as the person looked like […]
Real World Math.
Today at Robot, Karl and I and Pelan were attempting to determine the field of view for the color detecting camera we are going to be using on this year’s robot. This proved fruitless. Our trig produced three different values, 30, 40, and 50 degrees, as the field of view. I can’t do anything with […]
How to Reduce Expenditure
or, “Less classes in more time.”
Basically, the High School is offering a lower amount of classes this year than it was last year. This is compounded by the fact that there will be 8 periods next year. So not only are we going to not have enough class time to be anywhere near prepared for […]
All you people with iPods
Congratulation, you own a $300 MP3 player! Now please go out and buy a decent pair of headphones! I can’t count the number of people I see in school with those dinky little pill shaped earbuds in their ears. Not only are the headphones low quality, they scream, “Mug Me!” This probably isn’t a problem […]
Mundane Monday
Today in English Harak asked us to write an answer to the question, “What does our society intolerate the most?” I had about three sentances down when he asked us to go around and share our ideas. Then he asked who had written a progression of ideas, going from one idea to the next and […]