I'm Out and about

Looking for supplies to make a concrete bowling ball.

Want Want Want

Over at Thinkgeek they have a poster:

Award for Most Awesomnest thing I've seen on the internet all day!  Enemy propaganda!

When You Prayed Beneath the Trees

A hymn for Holy week: specifically Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.

When you prayed beneath the trees,
It was for me, O Lord;
When you cried upon your knees,
How could it be, O Lord?
When in blood and sweat and tears,
You dismissed your final fears,
When you faced the soldiers’ spears,
You stood for me, O Lord.

When their triumph looked complete,
It was for me, O Lord;
When it seemed like your defeat,
They could not see, O Lord!
When you faced the mob alone,
You were silent as a stone,
And a tree became your throne;
You came for me, O Lord.

When you stumbled up the road,
You walked for me, O Lord;
When you took your deadly load,
That heavy tree, O Lord;
When they lifted you on high,
And they nailed you up to die,
And when darkness filled the sky,
It was for me, O Lord.

-Christopher Idle

A Drinking Joke

A Texan walks into a bar in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, “I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I’ll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back.”
The room is quiet, and no one takes up the Texan’s offer. One man even leaves.
Thirty minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. “Is your bet still good?” asks the Irishman.
The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint glasses, drinking them all back-to-back.
The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement. The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and says, “If ya don’t mind me askin’, where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?”
The Irishman replies, “Oh… I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first.”

The Expendables

Lets see.  An action movie with Jason Stratham, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, and more.

Even if the poster has some cheap photoshopping:

It still looks entertaining:

And I'm a sucker for flying boats. We'll see how it turns out!

from Big Hollywood.

A Few of My Favorite Things: Everyday Carry

Now some people go for the big brick-like things, the ones that can do almost everything.  Some people use the ones that are easy to carry, that you can have in your pocket all the time and not even notice.  What follows is my choice for everyday carry;  I realize that there are different philosophies, and that what is a good choice for one is bad for another. What is it?






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I carry around a Casio fx-115 ES calculator every day.  I actually own a couple of them--and between my roommate, neighbors, and me there are 5 in this duplex.  It is an amazing little thing--it can do simple calculus (within bounds), has an equation solver (for up to 3rd order equations), can do complex numbers very easily (good for electrical engineering classes), has a "natural display" for easier viewing, and, best of all, it is non-programmable and so legal on the eight-hour Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (covers everything since kindergarten!) that I have to take next month.

It's beat up--I've been using it since sophomore year.  It sure can't do all the stuff that my TI-83 can do--let alone one of them newfangled TI-89's.  Some of the controls are weird.  But it is what I like, what I am used to, and what I am good with.  It is this engineer's everyday carry of choice!

Oh, and happy April 1st!