On this day, I learned that WILT turned a year old during my month and a half hiatus :O! shame on me ;_;

I also learned that Backyard Burgers is actually a fast food place. I’d never realized it before. It is a smaller/cheaper/less local alternative to Grubs (Which apparently is closed today anyhow), which is pretty good for a college girl saving a dime and a few pounds. I had a coupon for a $5 combo which made it even better, of course.

I learned that when you are a major ISP service tech, you get to do fun things such as connect remotely to people’s computers and move their cursors and type for them ;)

I learned that some people must need take other people’s lifestyles in their own hands. If a woman is having an abortion that late in the game, it might just be because the baby will die regardless, or she will die. And regardless of such a decision, it shouldn’t be made for her by strangers or forceful family and friends.

Rules for Texas Hold’em (as I understand them)
Dealer deals two cards to each person; left of the dealer is small blind, they put in a small ante. Left to small blind is big blind, they put in twice the ante. After that, the players can view their cards before anteing and decide to play or fold.
After it gets back to the small/big blinds, they can decide to fold then, or match any bets made. If no additional bets are made, players check, and the dealer burns a card(deals it without flipping it) and deals three face up. Then the betting/checking continues until five cards are out, then if no one raises, they can call and then it’s just like normal poker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Orange_%28pigeon%29

the turbine shaft at the Tontitown natural gas fired power plant spins at 3600 RPM. Also, if you take Highway 112 towards Tontitown, you pass the drive in theater!

chem I stuff: mole fraction, mass fraction, etc

function is onto if you can write f(x) = f(f(y)) and it comes out as y. function is one-to-one if you try to solve for two different variables, x1, x2 and they end up being the same thing (x1=x2)

lots of pro athletes go bankrupt

cranberry generic crystal lite is pretty good

On this day, I learned that Edward Scissorhands(movie and man) is so cool. I just want to cuddle him!

I learned that there are a nebula, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune past Mars in Dolphin Olympics. Pretty cool!

I learned that the day before Easter is a HUGE shopping day. I guess this makes sense; everyone’s picking up last-minute ingredients for big family dinners, easter candy, church dresses. It was kinda shocking though.

I learned that there is a pretty flower garden in the Walton Arts Center’s little ampitheater. It looks like it would be a cute place for a wedding! Has a little arch and everything.

I also learned that THERE ARE MORE ACORNA BOOKS OMG. I only finished the second one out of necessity. I started the first one in the hopes that maybe not starting in the middle of a series would make it make more sense, but no, I didn’t even finish that one. WHY UNICORN GIRL, WHY?

I learned about gender roles indoctrination of the 70s. JUST LIKE MOMMY JUST LIKE DADDY A TWO-IN-ONE WONDER BOOK. Makes me think of the stories Mom has told me about her school dresscode and fighting with grandpa over what she wore. (Mom, tell me more of these)

I also learned that Wal*Mart does not carry Jones Soda or Pepsi Natural . So much for my cane sugar fix.
However, Wally did have shrimp + lime ramen, and I learned that it is pretty dang good. Will buy again.

On this day, I learned that you can do better in dolphin olympics if you speed up by going at very flat angles instead of straight up; it doesn’t take as long to come back down then! (This is my quest to make it to the Restaurant in said game)

I learned that my thermo notes from wednesday are MIA :x And that you do an enthalpy equation at the feed water heater in an open feedwater heater cycle to find the mass flow through the pumps.
A feedwater heater cycle has a boiler, turbine, and two pumps. The first pump raises the pressure on the water, the boiler makes it hot, the turbine converts the high pressure hot gas into work. The second pump takes out some water out of the turbine before it cools down, and uses that to reduce work done by the boiler to reheat the rest of the water. Somehow it helps!

I learned that Stu and I aren’t the only ones who advance people’s laundry through the wash-dry cycle instead of just piling them up wet on the counter! That was a welcome surprise. I put my clothes in around 4 and pulled them out at 6 without having touched them.

I learned that UA jazz bands are wonderful to watch. Fluglehorns are so erotic!

I learned that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a San Francisco based order of LGBT activists. I would love to see them in a parade or festival there sometime.

On this day, I learned that using XL Thermal Props for thermo homework is FUN. Basically, Thermal Props is an excel plug-in that has a database of all the thermal properties of several different substances, and thanks to some basic tenets of material behavior, if you have two properties, you get the third. However, if you’re working from a book with charts, this is toilsome, since you can’t have every single temperature and pressure, and if you’re working from another property, you have to interpolate even more, because those don’t have their own pages. So Thermal Props is very convenient and we can’t use it on the test :[

I learned what it’s like to be a personal assistant to a famous author, as well as what not to mail them. (the assistant and the author)

I learned that a poem from my childhood was written by none other than T. S. Eliot (it’s impressive how famous names slip past you when you’re 8)

I learned about My Brute, which is a site where you make disposable flash entities to fight to the death :D I also learned that it is very hard to crack passwords, as I found out when I realized I had typoed my favorite password on the above site. Grrr.

On this day, I learned what you use eigenvalues for!
For a homogeneous ODE X’ = AX:

Since this is a simple homogeneous example, we know that AX needs to equal the zero vector. We will subtract lambda (y for now) times the identity matrix for a 2×2 from A, i.e. A – yI and take the determinant:

Det(A-yI): (1-y)(2-y)-(1)(0) = (1-y)*(2-y). The solutions to this are y=1, y=2, our eigenvalues.

Now solve (A-yI)(X)=(0) for the vector X (the eigenvectors) for both eigenvalues. Write the system of equations this gives:
(1-1)(a) + 0(b) = 0
(1)(a) + (2-1)(b) = 0 => a = -b
Now, you get to pick any number in the world that isn’t weird or zero for a, then choose a b according to that pattern, maybe a=1, b = -1. Thus, your first eigenvector could be

Then find the second one with y = 2. Now, your solutions for the DE are
X = c₁v₁e^-y₁t + c₂v₂e^-y₂t

Fun inorite?

I also learned that mother cats are SO LOVING. Seriously, you can’t make up this kind of cute.

I learned that accountants like filing, working too hard, and arcane symbology.

I learned that before there was Photoshop, there was the Evening Graphic, which featured “composographs”.

On this day, I learned that I totally did not study enough for that Discrete test. Didn’t even have enough time to finish it ._.

I learned that phenylketanurics cannot process amino acids like phenylalanine in aspartame. So basically they have to avoid proteins, which is crazy to imagine for myself.

I learned not only that Dubai is a city built in the desert to be an oasis that entertains the world jetsetters and enriches the local upper class, but it seems to have destroyed the lives of many poor foreigners, including Americans who went broke.

I learned that some scenes in Disney movies aren’t as unique as they’d like for you to believe xDD

I learned that one gentleman (whose site seems to have been removed), when presented with a bill for $18000 worth of clip art, roused the twitter community by saying that he was being charged for his own work which was being ripped off by other people, but some people think he’s not telling the whole truth.

I also learned that a man in Quebec has been sued by his own daughter’s lawyers, whom she met during her parents’ divorce proceedings, and proceeded to contact when her dad tried to overrule her mother’s decisions.

I learned that AutoDesk is considering coming out with a mac version. This is so exciting! :D

I learned about an 8-bit waterslide.

I also learned that tarantulas totally have the ability to throw hairs in defense. Definitely using this as a plot device in my short story.

On this day, I learned that you can get jewelry made in the shape of your scars. Too bad I don’t really wear a lot of jewelry or have interesting shaped scars.

I learned that if you have a lump appear on your wrist, it’s probably a ganglion cyst. These are just fluif-filled sacs, but they look weird.

I learned that the more caffeine you drink, the worse your withdrawals!

I also learned that there’s a little Japanese robot (what else is new?) that is programmed to learn like a little baby :o