This. This is my greatest accomplishment. Well, for today at least. Now, this may look like a simple 200mm long hinge, but I'll have you know that a good 3+ hours of frustration and hard work went into that little pretend piece of metal. And now it is done. And I am proud. The end.
As you may know, the Large Hadron Collider was turned on about a week and a half ago. They were warming it up (and by "warming it up" I actually mean cooling it down to around -460° F) and running a few tests, building up to mid-October when they would actually start shooting those particles at each other at [close to] the speed of light. Exciting stuff! But here's the bad news: A mere 10 days after firing it up, a giant helium leak is forcing them to shut everything back down. AND, since before they can go in and fix it they have to get the temperature back up to, say, I don't know, not absolute zero (and then back down once it's fixed!), it's going to be another couple of months before the masses can really start panicking about blackholes swallowing the world. Blast! Katelan and I were getting so excited about wearing this shirt!
A long time, see? That translates to "longer than 28 seconds." So I feel fairly confident that I won't be encountering a velociraptor chained to a bunk bed any time soon. What a relief.
In other news, the Large Hadron Collider has not yet destroyed the world. Katelan and I will soon be buying this t-shirt and have big plans to wear it the day after they start shooting those particles at eachother. Go science!
Yes indeed, go dwags. For the more literate and less inebriated portion of the population, a translation reads Go Dawgs! It's game day at Mississippi State and I've got my fingers crossed for another win. The fact that we're playing Auburn does worry me, but hey, we beat them last year! Then again, last year we didn't start out the season losing to Louisiana Tech.
As exciting as game day is, I am not really in the mood for it today. Today I am sniffly and achy and tired and just want to stay in bed watching the rest of Season 1 of Heroes. But duty calls. So at 4:15 I will put on my brand new, never-been-worn-by-anyone marching uniform and trudge over to McCarthy Gym to warm up with the band. Atleast I'll be trudging in style though! As I just mentioned, the new uniforms are making their debut today. Exciting times in Band Land!
The game comes on at 6 pm CST/7 pm EST on ESPN2. Tune in and pray that we don't get slaughtered!
Go Dwags!
For some reason, in about 2 hours I will have pulled an all-nighter. I blame it on Firefox's oh-so-rad StumbleUpon add-on, as I can (clearly!) spend hours upon hours hitting that Stumble button, excited to see what new and exciting corner of the web it'll bring me next. But more on that later, when we get to number 3 on my list of Supa Fly Things Very Recently Brought To My Attention. Number 3 is just the icing on the cake that was my Evening Of Discovering Super Things! So, without further ado, topping the charts we have...
I love summer. Fantastic weather (rain or shine, either one works for me!), superb vacations, spending time with friends you haven't seen in months, and (for me atleast, as I have no job) just generally being able to spend the day doing whatever the heck I want. It's awesome. Sorry to those of you who have actual jobs and are contributing to the greater good of society. I don't know how you would feel if I told you how much time I spend doing nothing more than laying in the sunshine by the pool, reading. It's a good life! :)
On a side note, it is interesting how some things apparently just don't change... like the ice cream man! When I was a kid swimming at the pool, he would come flying into the parking lot, bells jingling, and all the kids would scream "The Ice Cream Man!" and run to their parents for money. And guess what? That exact same scenario still plays out every single day, 10 years later. Oh, ice cream man. What power you have.