Got this from the site of someone who stalked over to my xanga site. No idea who they are...but this picture struck me. =|
http://photo.xanga.com/lindz1614/5b1d7191974507/photo.html
rawr. so true...
D
quotes:
Engineering Phrases that sound great:
-Parameter Variation:
I have no idea what's going on. So I'm going to sit here pressing
buttons, turning dials, changing this/that until things make sense/work
Today I spent 5 hours engaged in parameter variations with regards to the Rocket Engine
-Non-Linear Function:
Proper data is typically linear/logarithmic in nature. You
do this a certain amount and affect the system in a relative manner.
But when your data's all over the place and you have
no-freaking-idea-what's-going-on, you sit back and conclude that the
data suggests a "non-linear function" of behavior.
I believe the relationship between relative velocity and target damage is a non-linear function
"The
Craziest thing happened to me today" DKitani: (being willing
to talk to the belligerent racist guy at the restaurant)
http://www.xanga.com/treevalley/659996300/the-craziest-thing-happened-to-me-today.html?nextdate=last&leftcmt=1
The Greener Grass Conspiracy (by Stephen Altrogge)
[thanks to kaycee kaba http://www.xanga.com/chococomgalxjunior/660496215/item.html ]
Between the ages of 6 and 18 I was home schooled. I never went to school
dances, never was a star varsity quarterback, never dismantled an opponent as
part of the debate club, and never built a foam solar system for the school
science fair. I was valedictorian of my class, but that's not much of an
accomplishment when your class consists of exactly one person.
Now don't get me wrong: I'm grateful that I was home schooled and wouldn't
change a thing if I had to do it all over again. But by the time high school
graduation rolled around I was ready for a change. The prospect of college
excited me.
What would it be like to have a teacher who wasn't also my mom? What would
it be like to have the option of skipping class? What would it be like to
stroll the halls of academia, to hear the sound of chalk on raw blackboard, and
to feel the nervous energy of a classroom full of students who hadn't studied
for a test?
All this, and much more, awaited me in college.
College was all that I ever dreamed, and more — for two days. Then I made
some unpleasant discoveries. I found that I wasn't a big fan of spending my
weekends writing 10-page papers and memorizing obscure geologic formations. I
realized that a five-hour exam cram session didn't rank high on my favorite
activities list. I discovered that there were professors who were about as
interesting as a bowl of shredded wheat. And that these professors always had a
mandatory attendance policy.
By the end of the first two weeks I was living for the weekend. By the end
of the first year I was ready to get out into the real world and make some real
money. Just like high school, college didn't satisfy me. I was ready for the
next thing.
And you know what? The real world didn't satisfy me either. It seems that my
professors forgot to tell me that in the real world you work in a real cubicle,
and wear a real shirt and tie, and have a real boss, and have to meet real,
ulcer-inducing deadlines.
After a few short months I was eager and ready for the next new thing.
The thing is, the root of my dissatisfaction wasn't my circumstances. It was
my sinful heart. What I needed most was a heart change, not a change in
circumstances.
Vids:
****The Great Office (Nerf) War (l337!!):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVKnF26qFFM
***Dance off with the Star Wars Stars 08: (LOVE the 3rd one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQwP2gFxU
****Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts w/commentary (HOLY CRAP! I had NO IDEA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1AwZN4ZYg
**SWEET baseball catch by ball-girl [minor league]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnXnrVYQfI
***NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" - The "Clean" Version: (rofflemao)
http://break.com/index/nwa-the-clean-versionb.html
***Yellow Drum Machines - The original Main film (for the robot/drum/cognitive-science lover in you):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU
**Amazing 15-year old singer: (thanks tony)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZccz5cy3ks
**Star Wars Floppy Disk (because everything is bettter w/the Dark Side...):
http://www.videosift.com/video/Star-Wars-Floppy-Disk
*Kids Songs sung by Rock Stars (lmao. not bad...not bad)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9WvXFUg2Ls
DRINKING TIME! Dartmouth tour prank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYUL1A-WUM
*Contact Juggler (Think: Goblin King from The Labrynth):
http://break.com/index/another-amazing-contact-juggler.html
Portable Autonomous Sentry Gun Demonstration (Paintball): [zOMG. pretty crazy]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc
Drag & Drop World (cool stop-motion animation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CdYKaA6XXA
**Brian & Katie's Evolution of Wedding Dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QujA8YYgTWU
*Giannyl.com: (do it yourself...everything [off note: capable girls...are pretty hawt])
http://www.giannyl.com/
-recycle an old TShirt into a bikini
-make a cool pair of flip flops
-make a mentos & Diet Coke booby trap
:
Sites:
Most Common Passwords: [so...uh...don't use these]
http://blog.jimmyr.com/Most_Common_Passwords_20_2008.php
The Quest for Every Beard Type (Thanks KQuan?)
http://www.dyers.org/blog/beards/beard-types/
GAME_Rather interesting, if not disturbing, puzzles game - Ragdoll Canon: (Sheauen's L337 at this now!)
http://www.onlinegamesector.com/hra.aspx?play=ok&game=3443
GAME_Music Catch - VERY WELL-integrated music (Thanks Grace. Love the piano now...)
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Reflexive/music-catch
Servas Open Doors [possible inexpensive ways to stay somewhere]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servas_Open_Doors
5 Off beat ways to travel deals: [interesting!!]
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/TravelForLess/5OffbeatPathsToTravelDeals.aspx
You can veto pork barrel spending yourself with the new PORK INVADERS.
[The term pork barrel, while literally meaning a barrel in which pork is kept, is more commonly used as a political metaphor
for the appropriation of government spending for projects that are
intended primarily to benefit particular constituents or campaign
contributors.]
How to beat CARNIVAL GAMES:
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/beat-carnival-games.php?showall=true
State
Nicknames...and the nicknames of their residents: (always
wondered about some of these. ie- Maine = Mainiacs! so cool!)
http://katiekramerica.blogspot.com/2004/09/if-youve-been-reading-this-blog-all.html
The Best in the Online World: (most popular web sites)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1809858,00.html
Lawl. Who sent this to me?
Lit 101 class in 3 lines or less:
http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/6/16joseph.html
Articles/Writing:
**The Life of Reilly - Dad played golf & drank -- A Lot. But he taught me a lot, too. (by Rick Reilly; thanks tommy)
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3422420
Golf taught me the lessons my dad never did, including the best one:
You play life where it lies. You hit it there. You play it from there.
Nobody threw you a nasty curve or forgot to block the defensive end. I
learned that my mistakes were mine alone, not my boss', not the cop's
and, as much as I hated to admit it, not my dad's.
****Why $4-a-gallon gas is a bargain: (for REALS)
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/Why4DollarAGallonGasIsABargain.aspx?page=1
(Gasoline is also cheap compared with other essential fuels. A
Starbucks venti latte costs the equivalent of $23 per gallon, while
Budweiser beer runs $11 per gallon.)
A gallon of gasoline in the U.S. is also dirt-cheap compared with gas
in other countries. British motorists are paying about $8.38 per gallon
for gasoline. In Norway, a major oil exporter, drivers are paying
$8.73. In 2007, out of the 32 industrialized countries surveyed by the
International Energy Agency, only one (Mexico) had cheaper gasoline
than the United States.
Dating Challenge: Crossing the "Friend Zone"
LINK
Gadget Buyers seen as ASSERTIVE, even ARROGANT: study (thanks Kev)
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP1737020080618?sp=true
Every Body's Talking - An Ex-FBI Agent "thin-slices" behavior to read emotions not put into words: (intriguing...)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002500.html?g=1
25 Most rockin Guitar Riffs:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/49237/the-25-most-infamous-guitar-riffs
The Next Grand Tour (Vacation suggestions based on the amount of time you have)
http://travel.msn.com/Guides/article.aspx?cp-documentid=508116>1=41000
9 Big Credit Card Myths
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002500.html?g=1
The WORST WEDDING TOASTS, ever: (zomg)
http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/couplesandmarriage/articletkt.aspx?cp-documentid=8136321>1=32001
"At my cousin's wedding, the best man ended his toast by saying he
wanted the groom to know that he'd be there for him at his next wedding
when this one didn't work out."
Stories:
Older veterans now helping vets of Iraq and Afghanistan (this is SO NICE to hear):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080609/ts_csm/avethelp
The approach is both simple and profound: Providing a safe,
nonjudgmental place where someone who's "been there" can simply listen.
"There is this enormous chasm of understanding between people who
have been to war and civilians," says Jonathan Shay, an author and
psychiatrist who treated psychological injuries during a 20-year career
with the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The War They Still Fight by Tim O'Brien -- story of the Center for the Intrepid (state of the art rehab center)
http://news.yahoo.com/page/parade-warriors
Middle Schools tone down graduation ceremonies: (thanks Mike. This sounds like a great idea...)
http://www.xanga.com/sharkstothecup/662816648/item.html
In Santa Ana, officials have tried to temper the occasion by no longer
referring to it as graduation. Instead, said Spurgeon Principal Robert
Laxton, it is called "promotion," because "this isn't the end of the
line; we are promoting them to high school."
"You are really the class of 2012," school board member Rob Richardson told students.
"This is not a graduation," board member Audrey Yamagata-Noji said in Spanish.
Not everyone goes on to graduate from high school," said Maria Arroyo,
whose daughter Kelsey -- the oldest of three -- graduated from Spurgeon
this week, achieving the highest level of education in her family in
the United States. (Maria, who grew up in Mexico, was educated only
until fourth grade.) By forgoing the balloons, gifts and parties common
among her neighbors, she hoped to signal that she expected her daughter
to work hard to graduate from high school.
As they walked out of the ceremony, Kelsey told her, "Mom, I don't want
all those things; I'm going on to high school," she recalled.
Cell Phone service warns of Speed Traps (NEAT!)
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/InsureYourCar/MobileServiceWarnsOfSpeedTraps.aspx
How the half-price iPhone 3G actually costs you MORE:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/94465
In South Africa, CHINESE is the New Black: [so Martin Tsai really is...]
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/06/19/in-south-africa-chinese-is-the-new-black/?mod=yhoofront
Switch vs. switcher confounds umps (baseball. interesting...)
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8267012?MSNHPHCP>1=39002
Typos on Diplomas embarrasses Ohio Principal (lawlz)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_fe_st/odd_diploma_typo
Brandon Inge (Major League Baseball player) hurt...via pillow (/salute. you beat even me...):
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Brandon-Inge-angles-for-a-lucrative-pillow-endor?urn=mlb,90675
WTH??!! Man Sentenced to prison after Girl's Myspace LIES ABOUT HER AGE:
(ummm...a 2nd time? This girl is gonna get involved w/the wrong person eventually...)
http://www.wftv.com/news/16348047/detail.html
Neato: Architect secretly builds epic scavenger hunt into NYC Apartment:
http://gizmodo.com/5015855/architect-secretly-builds-epic-scavenger-hunt-into-nyc-apartment
Japanese woman caught living in man's closet (where she lived for about a year. ???!!!)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_re_as/japan_closet_woman
Attacker in Tokyo foretold mayhem in message:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_re_as/japan_stabbing
Government officials scrambled to respond to Sunday's attack. In an
emergency meeting, the ruling coalition considered limiting access to
knives like the one used in the stabbing, which had a five-inch blade.
"Obviously, the suspect possessed the knife without a legitimate reason," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said. "I think we have to seriously consider what we can do to step up the restrictions."
[OK.
Seriously...that is the short-sighted reaction of the naive, who are
unable to believe that PEOPLE are capable of horrendous evil with any
tool at hand...and try to blame the tool for the darkness that is
within the person. ARRRggghhh]
Pregnancies bloom at Gloucester HS (another WTH story)
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html
Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.
Google Maps hybrid gets speeding ticket:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/google-maps-prius-hybrid-ticket-police.php
Photos/Photo-sites w/l337 photos/WebComics:
Cool Pics (some photoshopped)
http://poststuff2.entensity.net/061108/cool/
Funniest moments in sports captured on camera:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/05/moments-in-sports-part-7.html
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/08/05/11/
Stoney Point Rock Climbing (Kacie Yoshida):
http://www.xanga.com/kacie2themax/659718236/item.html
http://www.xkcd.com/435/
Luminato: Yonge-Dundas square now automatic for the people:
http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/06/06/luminato-yonge-dundas-square-now-automatic-for-the-people/
WHAT: Silent Dance Party (part of
Light on Your Feet)
WHEN: Sat Jun 7/Sun Jun 8, 12am-2am
WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square
Photo Tutorials (basic): [thanks matt pih]
http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2007/11/rule-of-thirds-leading-lines-forground.html
http://xkcd.com/441/
wow. it's like he knows me/us:
http://xkcd.com/439/
To all you morons who think you're so tough...online
[ie-
it's ok: i'll listen to you being angry. Just don't make me sit
through your BS about going to kick someone's ass, you panzy]
http://xkcd.com/438/
Recalling Dreams: http://xkcd.com/430/ [another great job of displaying the abstract. GENIUS!]
Caption LMAO
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/funny-pictures-army-squirrel-shows-off-his-medals.jpg
LMAO. Thanks Greg: http://mightywombat.com/toons/plugwhores.gif
Yay Olympics!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/25/
Lifetime
