Portable N64?

My little brother found this site where a kid took apart his N64 and made it into a handheld console using that case and a controller. Now he wants to do it. I'm not going to say I doubt he can do it, but one year in robotics does not make you ready for that kind of project. But you know what, he'll end up doing it and prove me wrong.


Lyric of the Day:

"Somewhere after midnight
In my wildest fantasies
Somewhere just beyond my reach
There's someone reaching back for me"
-Frou Frou: Holding out for a Hero


Random Story of The Day:
More Excellent Physics pick up lines that were used today:

Elan: Hey baby, I'm doing an experiment on the spring constant of my matress in my bedroom, and I could use an assistant to get some data, if you know what I mean...

Me(stand with hands as if a barrier is between me and girl): It sure is difficult resisting this force of mutual attraction...

Chuck: That dress would look even better accelerating towards my bedroom floor at 9.8 m/s2.

Elan: Can I have your significant digits?

Phun in Physics! Phuck Yeah!

Well today in Physics was sort of funny. I mean Joe was being weirder than usual. Apart from the random, karate stance, the kid was spouting bad pick up lines(see RSoTD). What was hilarious was when Tim and Andrew needed help with Physics. In short, all you heard were Tim and Joe calling wach other "Bitch!" and pushing each other's stuff.

In English, while I did psych hw, Elan and Jeff took a survey to find out how English affected people's day. Their results said that a drop of one to three points in "Day Satisfaction" was expected after entering English.


Lyric of the Day:
" Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings
The future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before"
-Utada Hikaru : Simple And Clean



Random Story of The Day:
In physics, Joe, Elan and I were testing out some wuite funny pick-up lines:

Joe: So Kirsten, know why t=infinity in this problem?
Kirsten: No, Why?
Joe: Cuz d=vt, and I want to go all the way with you

Elan: Hey Tanya, I wish I could be the derivative of U?
Tanya: Why?
Elan: So I could be the line tangent to your curves.

Me: How bout this one, you know how g=G(m+M)/r?
Me: That proves that there is a mutual attraction between us babe.

Chip Partay at Joyce's..and therefore at Jade's

Well, we got Econ team results today. Needless to say Joe once again beat me, but only by one point.
The ranking was:
Joe
Me
Collins
Dan
Andrew
Elan
Tim
Tuua

The robot is so messed up, I don't know what we are going to do.

Later we went to a "Chip Party". Jeff brought chips, I brought nacho cheese, and Elan brought a Gigantic bottle of salsa. It was a fun event, with "Battle of the Sexes" and foosball. I have decided that Elan gets mad props for foosball cause he and Panda beat Me and Mike twice.

Note: Whipping out a calculator still gets a response :)



Lyric of the Day:
" Give me envy,
Give me malice,
Give me attention,
Give me envy,
Give me malice,
Baby, give me a break"
-Panic! at the Disco: Its Time To Dance



Random Story of The Day:
So Tuua definitely scared the shit out of me by telling me that she got to choose Econ teams. I bet you will never see me and Joe more at each other than that night.

Tuua: So Zentz said as the only girl I get to pick teams
Me: Thats such bullshit! If a guy got it like that people would be screming sexist...
Joe: Just make it it me, Tim, and Collins....I need a fourth member...
Tuua: Me...I DO want to be on the winning team.
Me: Like hell you will, Andrew and I will win this thing
Joe: Bitch, please.
Me: What, you think you're better or some shit?!
Elan: Dork Fight!
Tuua: I was just joking, you can calm down.
(Joe flashes me a "C")
(I give him the good old "adjust the glasses" flip off)

Model UN is da bomb!

Today we had another History Club meeting. Apparently we need another chaperone, that teacher thing fell through. This trip is going to be fun, reguardless of what Chris says. I mean with Elan disarming, Me controlling World Health, and Akash handling nukes what could go wrong.


Lyric of the Day:
" Windmill, Windmill for the land.
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all in on your stride
It is sinking, falling down.
Love forever love is free
Lets turn forever you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land is everybody in?"
-The Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc



Random Story of The Day:

The Juniors this year have a much stricter teacher for Ap English this year. Instead of having Ms. Mary Murray, they have Mrs. Silverman. Akash returns from an attempt to get Ms. Silverman to reduce the homework in her class.
Akash: Man, I can't believe it, she totally screwed my plan over.
Me: How, Its frikin' English..
Akash: No man, she's making us read two novels at a time.
Me: While taking APUSH? Damn that sucks.
Akash: Yeah, and when I talked to her she actually convinced me that we needed to be at this pace.
Me: Why?
Akash: If we slow down, we don't get to read the books on the curriculum.
Me: What you reading now?
Akash: The Great Gatsby and some Faulkner book?
Me: As I lay Dying?
Elan: I love that band

Dead Bird?

The title covered in RSotD. Today, we had econ challenge try-outs. I hope that "Team Extreme" (Joe, Collins,Elan, and yours truly) are able to compete. We also had it's academic, whick was fun. Today was especially satisfying because I got a biology question faster than Kezia and Chris, a history question faster than Akash, a math question faster than Tim, a physics questin faster(more accurate) than Elan, and a literature question faster than Joe. Course there were the 15 or so questions i lost for the team....O well...

Lyric of the Day:
"This is such a pity.
We should give all our love to each other.
Not this hate that destroys us.
This is such a pity."
-Weezer: Such a pity

Random Story of the Day:
So Collins, Elan, Joe, Davon and I walk up to my car. We put all our stuff in the trunk, then I start-up and get ready to pull off. Elan says quietly "Well, if you want to lave that bird there do it". It is only then that I notice that there is a large dead black bird on the mood of my car. We get out of the car and stand around it evaluating the situation.

Chris: Don't touch that shit, you'll get like Bird flu or some shit.
(I walk over to Julius by the tennis courts and borrow his lacrosse stick. When I get back Chris is there with a wooden sword poking the bird)
Me: Dammit Collins, don't mess up my sword!
Chris: O, it's contaminated.
Elan: Yeah, he touched it.
(I slowly approach the bird with the stick raised)
(I freezeas I near it)
Me: So, we sure it's dead?
Davon: Jeez! You guys are such cowards!
(He runs up, takes the stick from me, picks the bird up with it, and tosses it into the parking lot)
Joe: Well it wasn't the most elegant solution, but meh, it worked.

Prank or Divine Intervention?
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Ophelia was the protagonist....

So we had an English unit test today. While I really didn't say that Ophelia was the protagonist(I know, some scholar out there is spending their life "proving" this), I did choose to write about her as a clear symbol of conflicting interests. I mean her desire to be with Hamlet and her desire to preserve family honor(aka not being seen as a mistress) were what caused their relationship to stalemate.

Speaking of stalemating, today was the semi-finals of chess. Parkville sadly loss, but Joe did beat his opponent in five minutes. I personally had my game won...until I forgot that bishops move diagonally and lost the trap around his queen. So I ended up with a bishop and king to a knight, king and five pawns...not a nice place to be

The sad part was I was able to draw by killing all of his pawns.

I love the way the clock freaks people out; it makes mind games much more effective.

Lyric of the day:
"And just like the ocean under the moon
Well thats the same emotion that I get from you
You got the kind of lovin that can be so smooth
Gimme your heart make it real
Or else forget about it"
-Santana: Smooth

Funny Story of the Day:
Yesterday we were at Robotics, and I needed a knife for something. I figured Dan owned like 20 (Phil Collins claimed some were as big as his arm), so I would get one from him.

Me: Dan, I need a knife.
Dan(whisper): Why?
Me(loudly): To cut this wire...just give me...
Dan(whisper): Calm the hell down...you realize we can't have knives in school right...
Me: Oh. Well then get me a saw to cut this with.

12 hrs of Robotics

Today, we went to robotics at 10 am...lemme give you a walkthrough of today:

10-10:30am: Pull out all of our stuff from corner.
10:30-10:45: Make a quick 7-11 run for hot coffee and chocolate.
10:45-11:30: Work on making sure turret assembly works as expected.
11:30-noon:Go to Collins' to heat up lunch.
noon-1:00:Eat lunch, Macaroni and Meatballs, made by my mom.
1:00-5:00:Work with Ken on makin sure ball loader actually works.
5:00-5:30:Eat dinner made by the Collins'.
5:30-8:00:Work with Angela , Kristy and Komal on the camera cage.
8:00-9:45: Try to help Collins with his hopper.
9:45-10:00: Elan and I spraypaint the hopper.
10:00-1010: Collins and I attach hopper and put robot in crate.
10:10-10:30pm: Head home!

Lyric of the Day:
"Wake up, Wake up, Wake up,
Yeah so tired of waiting, waiting for us to
Wake up, Wake up, Wake up,
Yeah so sick of waiting, for us to make a move "
-Lost Prophets: Make a Move

Random Story of the Day:
Every day at lunch, Collins somehow manages to turn the conversation towards the general idea of gay men loving the cock. Collins does this because he claims that anyone not mature enough to discuss the topic is a homophobe. Today at robotics:

Me: What is your obsession with the word "cock"?
Chris: Dinesh, I'm sorry if I am comfortable with the male genitalia.
Me: See who else feels that way...check if Sonia does....
(Chris and I walk over to Katie and Sonia)
Chris: So Sonia, Are you comfortable with the male genitalia?
(Sonia looks at him funny)
Katie: Could you elaborate, I mean like use it in a sentence?
Chris: Johnny asked the teacher ...
Me: Stop right there...We're done...

Headaches the size of a small country....

This Saturday I had this terrible headache, and when I got home I took some medicine and slept for 15 hours. I feel tons better today(Monday), especially since we have more or less finished the robot. I mean if we look away from the fact that we can't drive or shoot, then everything is fine.

Yesterday, the entire Siddiqui family comes into robotics and takes Julius. When Joey asks where they are going Junead replies "We needed even teams for basketball...".

I still have Pohlner's essay to do after our all day meeting today....

Lyric of the Day:
"You're gonna fall behind me
You're gonna cry and beg for mercy
Cause you're not ready and baby...
And you got nothin on me"
-The Donnas: Fall Behind Me

Funny Story of the Day:
Chris, Joe, Mike, and JT go to a party at Tuua's house. Mike realizes that JT's coat can hold tons of the snack food that is on the kitchen counter, so he proposes a "manly challenge": If JT can walk through Tuua's house with his jacket full of food three times without laughing, he wins. So JT fills his jacket with food and walks into the living room, where Tuua, Hyeon and Ruthie are talking. As Jt tries to steel his face, Tuua and Ruthie look at him with puzzled expressions. JT tries to get through the room, but bumps into Hyeon. "Excuse me good sir" he says as he tries to recover, but with some of the stuff spilled, he starts cracking up. Mike wins another manly challenge.

Mandatory meeting!

Today we had the first ever mandatory History Club meeting, becasue Niekirk was pissed that no one was showing. Everyone going on the trip was there except Ruthy, who had quit the trip. We got Jared to take her slot, meaning the chaperone roomed with the girls instead of us. Needless to say, Katie was not amused, niether were Salina and Tuua. With Akash as our main information source the Belarus team has actually started writing our position paper. When Elan found out that Belarus was one of two European nations to use the Death Penalty, he shouted out "Yay, we got the Death Penalty!". I was a little disappointed when there was no response from the Yemen side of the room, because I always am entertained by political arguments. Off to robotics then...

With five? days till ship, our robot can not even drive. And can't shoot. Well, thats slightly discouraging, but today was the most productive meeting we have had to this point. After a brief "teambuilding exercise"(snowball fight), our entire team was busy trying to get the robot ready for competition. It was great to see everyone so busy(hell even Sonia was actually working on the robot), but it was sucky when at the end of the day we realized we could not go to playdate...

Lyric of the Day
"So pardon me while I burst into flames.
I've had enough of the world, and its people's mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame."
-Incubus: Pardon Me

Funny Story of the Day: So at robotics I'm eat dinner with Brittany and Sonia. Joe comes over and walks up behind Brittany. She says" While you'rse back there might as well give me a massage" jokingly. Joe feebly attempts to do so, and Sonia and I start laughing as Brittany tries not to say anything about Joe's bad massage. I call Julius over.

Me(whisper): Jules, take a pic with your phone...
Julius(whisper): Lemme get out my phone...
(He pulls out his phone and points it at Joe)
(I wait while he goes through the menus trying to find his camera)
Me(whisper): Hurry up...
(Ten seconds pass)
Julius(whisper): We have a problem...
Me(whisper): What?
Julius(whisper): I just realized I don't have a camera on my phone...
Me: What a waste of time!
That exclamation ruined the "moment" for Brittany and Joe...

Darth Vader!

You are a Social Conservative (21% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (28% permissive) You are best described as a: Totalitarian Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Lyric of the Day:
"And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out."
-Nicelback: "Figured You Out"

Funny Story of the Day:
I have Hannon for homeroom, so today I walked up to him and told him I had an NHS meeting. As I walked to the meeting, I meet Kezia in the halls and she tells me that we have no meeting. When I walk into class Hannon pretends to grill me on why I left his class for such a short time.

Hannon: So, that seemed like a really short meeting.
Me: Yeah, Ms. Revere and Kezia really should orchestrate this better. I mean she could have at lest made it clear that there was no meeting today.
Hannon: I've actually known her since 1975, we taught at Pine Grove...
Elan: You knew Kezia in 1975!!
Me: Genius, He's talking about Revere.

Valentine's Day

Another Valentine's Day over...and all I got was a rejection letter...

It's not that bad though, I realize that when you apply to a highly selective school like Olin, you have a little chance of getting in. Plus, we actually did work at robotics! I mena we don't have a robot, but at least we got a frame...Off to finish Econ...

Lyric of the Day:
"I must be dreaming
Or we're onto something
I must be dreaming
For i don't fall in love lawlessly"
- Frou Frou: Must Be Dreaming

Funny Thing of the Day:
Ken comes into Robotics at 4:30 with a 1/4 scale model of the robot. In half an hour, he goes over all of his concerns about our design. He then gets ready to rush out the door. Chris shouts out something that gets the best reply in a while.

Chris: So where are you off to in such a rush Ken? I mean we ship in like 7 days.
Ken: In case you guys haven't noticed, It's Valentine's day...(Leaves Room)

Snow!!!!

Well it snowed yesterday, meaning no school today! I spent over an hour on myspace, so I felt it was necessary to take a break. Collins and I worked on our sets, I mean with all this free time what else do we do? Well I'm off to play some BattleFront or watch Yu Yu Hakusho...

Lyric of the day:
" Swear to shake it up, if you swear to listen
Oh, we're still so young, desperate for attention
I aim to be your eyes, trophy boys, trophy wives "
-PANIC! AT THE DISCO: The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage

Funny Story of the Day:
Last night, as I was about to start homework I realized that I never copied down Econ hw. So I turn on AIM and send a message to Joe asking for homework pages. He auto-replies "Being lazy always pays off, especially when there is snow". I check the School website, and sure enough no school tomorrow. Thank goodness for Joe and procrastination!

Football at Robotics...

Today at robotics, everyone was tired and felt apthetic, so we had some "team-building" rounds of touch foot ball. I made two touchdowns, so it was a good day...

Funny Thing of the Day(Past): Last year at the robotics trip in Annapolis, our team was wlking back to the buses. I heard a female voice behind me say "Pull up your pants". Ever the witty person, I replied "Britany, you wouldn't notice it if you weren't checking me out!". I turn around only to discover that the blond hair I saw at the edge of my eyes was not Brittany's, but that of Kirsten's Mom. I'm so slick sometimes...

Good Day!!

Yesterday was the best day ever. First, Chris and myself won the Biology category of our school's Science Fair. We were able to come out one top of Kezia, Shilpa, and Nonye who had a really nice board that made me a little scared when i saw it. We have the "victory party with Joe and Tim at Chris' house where I proceed to defeat Chris in Battlefront 2 for the first time (and probably the last time). Our school then won the "It's Academic competition" at WJZ. After that we head out to Legends where I pull 4 bomb rares, 2 of the being duals. While having the rare lands means my deck has no finisher, I still manage to beat Joe. Well, now I get to take a long nap!


Funny Thing of the Day:
Since I was having such good luck today, I started repeating the phrase "I'm having such a good day". Chris, after losing BF2 and Magic, was annoyed, and expresed his disdain in a humorousmanner.

Me: I'm having such a good day, did I tell you?
Chris: Dude, If you don't stop saying that people will think that you are like dying of cancer.