"So Dr. Nevard, are we doing surface integrals today?"
This is what I ask Dr. Nevard at the beginning of every math class. And the answer today was, we did them yesterday! I'm going to keep asking anyway. :D
Other stuff from QB yesterday I forgot:
Andy wrote a bonus asking "Answer these questions about the webcomic Penny Arcade." Which went to the other team! Who got none of them! Even though Noam reads it! Anyway, the third question essentially went "The strip's most popular character is neither Gabe nor Tycho, but rather this person named for his unusual weapon." The answer was, of course, Cardboard Tube Samurai. So of course Noam insisted that CTS is actually Gabe, and the question should be thrown out. I said the unusual weapon thing should have given it away. :P
The baby kept going off, so I played standing up, with the baby on the desk behind me.
We seem to have actually *lost* some buzzers...
So of course when Puerto Rico arrived, I went around IMing people who didn't know what it was "Whee, I now own Puerto Rico!" JT asked if he could have a bit; well obviously it would be useless if I gave away some of it, so I said no, but you can borrow it. Then Sara asked the same thing, and this time, I remembered that the game came with one extra large building, which is totally blank, and utterly useless, unless, I suppose, you lose a large building. So I said she could have a *bit*. Anyway, today I brought it in and gave it to her, without any explanation. She didn't ask what it was, so I didn't bother to explain. She then proceeded to slowly peel it apart, rip it up, and throw it out. "This is what you do with your little bit of Puerto Rico?!" "OH! So that's what it was! I thought you were just giving me a purple tile!"
I brought in EAC today, though I didn't get a chance to play it. Anyway, I showed it to Chris, and Avi was sitting on the other side of the table, and didn't know what it was, and was trying to read the box, and thought it said "Early American Gonads."
Apparently one of the... what're their names again? The sophomore Japanese twins. Anyway, apparently one of them had written on his last math test, with no explanation, "Argh! Brian Lee is ugly!" Dr. Nevard decided to pass this test around to all the kids in Analytical. :D (Us, he just told about it.)
Shannon somehow got the idea not only that my baby is a boy (which is an easy mistake to make), but also that its name is "Tyrone". Don't know where she got that from. Choketsu has renamed it to "Queen Latifah", or at least added that to its list of names.
Gah. Choketsu has apparently already made the baby do the DeathScream[0] twice.
In MP/CIM, we actually made stuff on the CNC machine! We had already written the program for the part last time, but as DeFalco hadn't shown us where the simulator program was, we hadn't tested it. So, so far as we knew, we were about to break the machine. Nobody writes bug-free code the first time, after all. Two groups got to actually make theirs today: Us (me and Sam) and Olivia and Shivani. For the case that we did write something that would break the machine, Mr. DeFalco had his hand on the speed knob and the hold button. Our program worked fine, only I miscalculated the coordinates of one of the holes - in fact, it ended up inside another one, so you couldn't see it. Now, Olivia and Shivani had some more serious problems. Well, firstly, they had one less serious one, namely that they had accidentally made one of the holes to a depth of only .025 in, rather than .25 in. Now, when moving in a straight line, the CNC machine can either G0 (go as fast as possible), or G1 (go at a feed rate). You G0 when you're outside the material, so as not to waste time, and G1 when you're inside it, so as not to break the machine. Olivia and Shivani G1ed outside the material. The only problem there is wasting time, but that's really not too far away from G0ing inside it...
They did, however, have one actual serious problem, namely, that they forgot to start the drill spinning before plunging it. Actually the machine refused to lower the drill past a certain point with it not spinning, so nothing bad happened, although had it continued, I would have just hit hold anyway (Mr. DeFalco having momentarily stepped out).
Actually, we just used one block of wax, and we did ours on one side, and they did theirs on the other, and them Mr. DeFalco cut it in half with the bandsaw. I got to keep it. I showed it to Dr. Bath, who named it Plantagenet.
Linda Cai: What is it?
Me: It's a block of wax with holes in it!
[Linda takes it and sniffs it]
Linda: It smells like it...
I will end this entry with a Galitskiy quote:
[Reading a question that says "Determine the period of the simple harmonic motion that ensues"]
"Determine the period of the simple harmonic motion that ensures."
Oh, and happy birthday Jayme!
-Sniffnoy
[0]The plastic babies do not give up and *do not die*. Snap its neck or otherwise mortally injure it and lose a lot of points, but don't expect it to shut the baby up. No, it just screams much, much, louder and lives through it. It's like an enemy robot from a movie. Hey, it *is* an enemy robot, really.
--
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
-George W. Bush
This is what I ask Dr. Nevard at the beginning of every math class. And the answer today was, we did them yesterday! I'm going to keep asking anyway. :D
Other stuff from QB yesterday I forgot:
Andy wrote a bonus asking "Answer these questions about the webcomic Penny Arcade." Which went to the other team! Who got none of them! Even though Noam reads it! Anyway, the third question essentially went "The strip's most popular character is neither Gabe nor Tycho, but rather this person named for his unusual weapon." The answer was, of course, Cardboard Tube Samurai. So of course Noam insisted that CTS is actually Gabe, and the question should be thrown out. I said the unusual weapon thing should have given it away. :P
The baby kept going off, so I played standing up, with the baby on the desk behind me.
We seem to have actually *lost* some buzzers...
So of course when Puerto Rico arrived, I went around IMing people who didn't know what it was "Whee, I now own Puerto Rico!" JT asked if he could have a bit; well obviously it would be useless if I gave away some of it, so I said no, but you can borrow it. Then Sara asked the same thing, and this time, I remembered that the game came with one extra large building, which is totally blank, and utterly useless, unless, I suppose, you lose a large building. So I said she could have a *bit*. Anyway, today I brought it in and gave it to her, without any explanation. She didn't ask what it was, so I didn't bother to explain. She then proceeded to slowly peel it apart, rip it up, and throw it out. "This is what you do with your little bit of Puerto Rico?!" "OH! So that's what it was! I thought you were just giving me a purple tile!"
I brought in EAC today, though I didn't get a chance to play it. Anyway, I showed it to Chris, and Avi was sitting on the other side of the table, and didn't know what it was, and was trying to read the box, and thought it said "Early American Gonads."
Apparently one of the... what're their names again? The sophomore Japanese twins. Anyway, apparently one of them had written on his last math test, with no explanation, "Argh! Brian Lee is ugly!" Dr. Nevard decided to pass this test around to all the kids in Analytical. :D (Us, he just told about it.)
Shannon somehow got the idea not only that my baby is a boy (which is an easy mistake to make), but also that its name is "Tyrone". Don't know where she got that from. Choketsu has renamed it to "Queen Latifah", or at least added that to its list of names.
Gah. Choketsu has apparently already made the baby do the DeathScream[0] twice.
In MP/CIM, we actually made stuff on the CNC machine! We had already written the program for the part last time, but as DeFalco hadn't shown us where the simulator program was, we hadn't tested it. So, so far as we knew, we were about to break the machine. Nobody writes bug-free code the first time, after all. Two groups got to actually make theirs today: Us (me and Sam) and Olivia and Shivani. For the case that we did write something that would break the machine, Mr. DeFalco had his hand on the speed knob and the hold button. Our program worked fine, only I miscalculated the coordinates of one of the holes - in fact, it ended up inside another one, so you couldn't see it. Now, Olivia and Shivani had some more serious problems. Well, firstly, they had one less serious one, namely that they had accidentally made one of the holes to a depth of only .025 in, rather than .25 in. Now, when moving in a straight line, the CNC machine can either G0 (go as fast as possible), or G1 (go at a feed rate). You G0 when you're outside the material, so as not to waste time, and G1 when you're inside it, so as not to break the machine. Olivia and Shivani G1ed outside the material. The only problem there is wasting time, but that's really not too far away from G0ing inside it...
They did, however, have one actual serious problem, namely, that they forgot to start the drill spinning before plunging it. Actually the machine refused to lower the drill past a certain point with it not spinning, so nothing bad happened, although had it continued, I would have just hit hold anyway (Mr. DeFalco having momentarily stepped out).
Actually, we just used one block of wax, and we did ours on one side, and they did theirs on the other, and them Mr. DeFalco cut it in half with the bandsaw. I got to keep it. I showed it to Dr. Bath, who named it Plantagenet.
Linda Cai: What is it?
Me: It's a block of wax with holes in it!
[Linda takes it and sniffs it]
Linda: It smells like it...
I will end this entry with a Galitskiy quote:
[Reading a question that says "Determine the period of the simple harmonic motion that ensues"]
"Determine the period of the simple harmonic motion that ensures."
Oh, and happy birthday Jayme!
-Sniffnoy
[0]The plastic babies do not give up and *do not die*. Snap its neck or otherwise mortally injure it and lose a lot of points, but don't expect it to shut the baby up. No, it just screams much, much, louder and lives through it. It's like an enemy robot from a movie. Hey, it *is* an enemy robot, really.
--
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
-George W. Bush
