The Collie Visit
Matt's visit was awesome! Sure, early in the day we didnt really do anything since the gang was still sleeping until about 3 pm.....damn nocturnal friends *shakes fist* :). I had thought for a while that it would be difficult to get the group together on short notice if it didnt involve video games or RPG's somehow, hence why I was surprised to get the group together (all 12-14 of us) for dinner at pizza hut. After, we watched RvB season 1, aka when matt needed to leave. grrr him.....I missed most of season 2 before I got back to ebo's house. Of course I didnt go straight to Ebo's house after matt left me house either. I, being Otto (who is Hotto), decided to go and bug Emily at Wally World since I told her I would when she left pizza hut to get back to work. Damn that store us huge! I walked around the whole thing trying to find her and it took like 20 min! I was on my way back out when I happened to see her leaving the store. Good timing. Alas, she had taken her sleepy pills and was not able to hang for a bit. So I got to see RvB season 2 PSA's instead. hehehe
I need to figure out what the hell I want to drink for New Year's though. Kerry and Emily told me to give them money tomorrow when we hang out. Here's the upside: I get to drink and hang out with cool peeps. The downside: I need to be sober enough to drive home at some point. I can easily down a six pack and a shot of tequilla without passing out or being too drunk, albeit i will be "happy." I just cant drink that much and drive for quite a while. What is a boy to do?
I just thought of something that emily could do when she gets her teaching job. If she really wanted to, she could teach kids so many different skrewed up things since if she's teaching like 1st or 2nd graders, she could teach them math that's like: 1+chair=5, or 5+2=house. you know something funny like that because they dont know better. they're just happy to be there learning that they'll believe anything that you tell them.
Anyway, i need to organize some of my stuff, so buh-bye.
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Santa discussion
I saw the polar express today and it made me want to bring up an engineers point of view on Santa....even though he is magical:
1)
No known species of reindeer can fly. But it is estimated that there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer, which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
4) Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding, etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, which is 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
5) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
6)353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance (considering the huge frontal area the cargo would present to the airstream) - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy, per second, each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.
7)A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
Even so.....it still was a good idea to leave out some milk and cookies, goodnight
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ooooooo, i have plans?
ok, ok, ok.....I got a phone call from ann coron during the polar express tonight (good movie), and yes my phone was on silent. I now have plans with her tomorrow after she gets off of work. Otto (who is hotto) has plans with a girl! I am awesome.
That is all
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the christmas update
Well now that the relatives have all left, i can finally update.
Great christmas all around for me. On the 23rd, i got to hang with Emily, Kerry and Lee for a little bit and exchange some presents with them. Kerry and Lee split getting me a bartenders set of glasses. It contained: 4 7.5 oz martini glasses, 4 12 oz margarita glasses, 4 20 oz beer glasses/tublers, and 1 mixed drink recipe book! weeee. I think that's the present I like the most this year. Emily made me a fleece blanket that is really really warm, and as she said, "is perfect for snuggleing with a loved one." I think she was hitting on me ;).
On the 24th, I got to hang out the family and snack on some food through the day and go to church at 6. Before then though, my brother comes home from work and needs me to help him get mom a christmas present or else he's S.O.L. *sigh* so we go to wally world and lo' and behold, there's emily working! YAY! went to church, came back had dinner, blah blah, blah, went to bed.
CHRISTMAS! I wake up, and believe it or not, I didnt shoot my eye out! (christmas story joke) Opened presents, all of which I got some nice gifts that I will enjoy. In the afternoon Uncle Gary got here, we had dinner and opened the presents from him. We also decided that we should watch Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition. OMG! That sucker is sooooo long. 4.5 hrs or so. I knew I'd be there for a while, but Jesus.
And finally today I got up, dinked around and decided to go across the hiway and try my new hockey skates that my uncle gave me. I like them a lot, especially since we have a pond I can skate on. I did later on decide to just take the "chick magnet" aka the blazer and plow the pond instead of using a shovel to clear it. It was a lot quicker, but the ice was really making noises under me according to my mom. oh well, at least I got it done and it can re-freeze tonight. The ice is so solid right now anyway that it wont matter if it has a few cracks in it. Tonight I'm going to see The Polar Express with my mommy and hopefully eigher see emily or the guys tonight. I'd rather see emily since she is a girl, but I do need to see the guys anyway.
Talk to you later everyone....parting is such, sweet sorrow.
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