Monday, November 6, 2006

So I haven't posted in a month and a half. Sorry. Turns out school isn't very exciting (or interesting) to do, much less to write about. I've had a collection of tests, quizzes, projects, assignments and all the other fun stuff associated with college life. Not a whole lot of fun. Actually, I don't think I like any of my ME classes this semester. They're all review and/or boring beyond all reason. Thermal systems is a repeat of thermodynamics, fluids and heat transfer. Machine design is a repeat of statics and mechanics. Mechatronics is new, but is mostly electrical engineering sort of stuff. Circuit diagrams and logic ladder diagrams and stuff. I can't say I care about those. Turns out...

So Saddam was convicted of killing 147 people and was sentenced to be hung, which is automatically appealed, which basically means nothing will happen for another two years. Go team. I don't know exactly what they intend to accomplish by going on with all this. He's clearly guilty, but he's being tried by people who already know he's guilty, so his guilt is assured in pretty much as many ways as it can be assured.

I found a recording of a comedian named Eddie Izzard who talked about how we really don't know what to do with people who kill hundreds or thousands of people.

"You kill one person, you're a murderer. You kill two or three and you're insane and get thrown into a mental hospital. You kill more than about twenty and people just don't know what to do anymore. It's like, well, very nicely done! You must get up very early in the morning. You're diary must be an interesting read. 'Woke up, death, death, death, death, death, death, lunch. Death death death death death afternoon tea...' "

Its sad, but very much true.


It was Dad's weekend last weekend. It was nice to see my folks again. We went to a Bill Cosby stand up comedy show. We had nosebleed seats which made it rather hard to hear him some of the time.

I have a "final" this week in my thermal systems class, worth 40% of the grade. Fun times. Its open book, and he said he was going to give us equations for the rest of the material, which makes the test rather pointless.

Next week is going to be even more enjoyable. I have either 3 or 4 tests in 3 days. Not much fun at all. Its a good thing I'm almost done with this whole school thing, because I'm getting tired of it in a hurry. Turns out.