On being cold

So, alone in the house, and freezing. What is one to do? I didn't want to turn on the heater, heat up the entire house for my benefit, one person. I put on warm clothes, and still cold. Look around the house and discover four windows open! Shut those up...still can't get warm.

Open a box of expired kettle corn, pop it, and stick the bag inside my jacket. Ahhhhh! The warm air seeps out the top, warming my face, while the bag itself is heaven.

This is what happens when you're alone in a big house and cold.

phhssshh.

I was working me butt off in the trainer's room today, and I was sweating buckets. (Literally!)
All of a sudden, my training buddy looks up, eyes wide with shock, jaw wide open, you get the idea. Who else should walk in but Kobe Bryant, with his cronies, getting an ice bath? Yeah. Stripped down to little black spandex shorts, and everyone was having the times of their lives, giving him high fives and all. I finished my workout and left. He's just another one of us, that's all. What's the big deal?

I walked to the pool, and everyone on the team couldn't believe I left. "What's he like?" "Is he cool?" "Is he REALLY in there?" etc. etc. etc. They all looked at me expectantly for some profound amazing story. I sarcastically said, "Oh, my goodness. He's AMAZING." I rolled my eyes and made it clear it was no big deal. Everyone laughed. And a boy on the team piped up, "I'd give ANYTHING to be Kobe Bryant." (A disturbing comment, imo.)

I don't like that smug smirk on Kobe's face. "I'm rich and famous enough to get away with anything I want."

American Idol, eat your hearts out!

Hello "Britain's Got Talent!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&feature=related

(It won't let me put it on my own page because it's too cool for that.)

Never, never, never judge a book by its cover.

Stapleys, I plead with you to watch this!!! Everyone else, I know you'll enjoy it... but notice, it's about seven minutes long.

If you watched it, after you watched it, here's my scary thought: would an American audience have reacted the same way after she sang? I only ask this because Americans as a whole seem much more obsessed with appearance than Britains.

I haven't been this embarrassed in a long time

Once upon a time I got shoulder surgery. Cosequently, I have to work out on the bike, the elliptical, etc. And not in the pool. So I get very sweaty and have to actually take showers. After my shower this morning, I grabbed my dirty clothes, threw them on the floor and took a nap. I wake up half hour later, and notice it is snowing outside. So I grab my sweatshirt off the floor and walked to class, I was running a little later than usual, so I was in a little bit of a hurry. It wasn't til I got to class that I realized my sweaty panties were hanging out from the collar of my hoodie. Yeah. I just casually pulled them out and put them in my pocket, hoping that the people who saw it assumed it was a hankerchief or something!!!!! But I thought it was hilarious.

Yes I'm a nerd! And proud of it!

Oh, and I forgot, (just posted it a few hours after original post):





(I think only Ricky will appreciate the rest of the blog, so you don't have to keep reading if you don't want to) In math today, we talked about resonance and frequency and many experiments involving it.

The first video we watched was simply a wine glass breaking. I didn't know glass could vibrate that much! (NOTE: Do not listen to this video with sound. It's really annoying.)



Side view of same experiment. Note how long it takes shards to fall. Think how quickly that glass shatters completely!




One video we watched was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (video is about five minutes long. I thought it was worth it!) Engineers had a hard time explaining why the bridge reacted the way it did, just resonant frequency couldn't have made the bridge collapse, they accounted for that several times. Apparently it was "aeroelastic flutter" that made the bridge collapse, a phenomena that wasn't well-understood at the time.

Okay, Dad or Ricky, which one did it?

I was looking up a couple of names of actors in Lord of The Rings: Return of the king. And what should I find but "Gondorian Soldier #1" was acted by Richard Edge?

Don't believe me?

Look here.

So, Dad or Ricky, do you have something to tell us?