Tori

You know what annoys me? (well, one of the things anyways...)

When something gives/asks for weight in grams/kilograms. That's not weight!!!

Pounds are weight. Ounces are weight. Newtons are weight.

Grams (kilo- etc) are NOT weight. They are mass!

Pounds:Newtons as Slugs:Kilograms.

Yes, in case you didn't know, the imperial (AKA, the effed up system the USA uses) unit for mass is a "slug"... which is weird. Even more weird, the "small" version of that is the "slinch" (slug-inch) also called a "blob"... I mean, come on! Are we trying to get all the other countries to laugh at us?!?!

Mass times acceleration (almost always gravity) is what gives weight. Thus, you have a different weight on the moon. However, if you "massed" yourself, it would be the same.

*Sigh* Now that I've taken general physics, mistakes like this annoy me... also, I'm yet to go through a day without thinking about a physics equation!

Yeah... you know, I don't even know why I bother anymore... everyone who knows me knows I'm a geek!

Anyways, lets see what's been super-geek in the past few days!

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2) When you clean off your bedside table and find the following book/publications:
- My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees Jane Goodall
- Long, Lost, Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Addams.
- Contact by Carl Sagan (yes, that Carl Sagan!)
- A book about Nikola Tesla
- Two books on Richard Feynman
- An astronomy text book... and I've never taken an astronomy class
- A book on ancient monuments and stone circles in the UK
- A sorta spoof on music history (it's really good actually, and VERY funny. Bach, Beethoven, and the Boys by David W Barber)
- A dictionary
- A medical handbook that is about more than 60 years old... well, printed then.... it was written in 1910! It's Backwoods Surgery and Medicine by Charles Stuart Moody. It's falling apart, cost $1.25, hardbound, when it first sold, and it no longer accurate (quote: "... God smiles, he may not developed septic fever.") but it still a fascinating read!
- Four issues of National Geographic magazine
- Three issues of WIRED magazine
- Three issues of Smithsonian magazine
- Harry Potter 3, 4, 5, and 6. I've been rereading the whole series (I've read all of them once before... I don't like rereading books because I remember them near-perfect the first time through) and as I come across something I reference on of the other books because I noticed a clue or something :) (My mom and I have also been listening to them on MP3 on the way to and from school, we're about 3/4 of the way through #3)

My bedside table isn't all that much emptier... most stayed.


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I'm a geek, eh?

OH! And I got an 87 on my physics test!!! Woohoo! Go me! It would have been higher, but there was a fire-drill partway through and I got distracted from my train of thought as we evacuated the building; when we got back to our test 10 minutes later I was just staring at my paper wondering where I had gotten that number from...

But I'm still wicked happy about my grade :)

Call me weird, a freak, whatever...

But, kneading, rolling and cutting out sugar cookies makes your skin feel fantastic!

Must be all that butter and shortening... well, it makes sense since massage oils makes skin feel fantastic as well!

Now for the geek part:

I made them for my physics classmates... and I'm decorating them with physicsy stuff! *geeky grin*

1) You feel that you must know every Greek letter there is (lowercase AND capital) and what they could possibly stand for; when suddenly, out of the blue, you think to look ahead at the next section and think "ωμγ". Then you catch yourself and think "omg, I'm thinking in txt AND Greek!" ["ωμγ" are the letters "omega mu gamma"]

2) When something odd/cool/interesting happens you describe in terms of physics: "That glass almost hit the floor! It's negative acceleration would have been so great that the force would have broken it! But the acceleration of my hand was fast enough to get a high enough velocity to get under the glass in a period of time so that I could catch it and allow it to have a slower deceleration by moving my hand downwards with it, slower and slower, for a short distance!"

3) You've been studying for 3 1/2, and although you're almost done, you kinda want to keep going...

4) You have a physics test tomorrow; translation, you study all weekend [well, not all] and then help all the people who "forgot" for an hour before class since they all know you'll be at school that early anyways.

5) Staff who work in the Science building want the Art Club to do some artwork for it; you try to come up with some "physics-y"

6) You can't come up with anymore because there's more problems in the world textbook to solve!

*points up* Although that icon seems the best, these were in the running:



Oddly/worryingly, they all apply to the situation!

So, a year ago today (according to the fact that I just got charged again!) I got a paid account for Live Journal. I got it, mainly, due to the fact I wanted to have a customized layout and no more ads. Also, more icons :D

A year later, I haven't changed the layout... hmm... maybe I should change it *lol* I just don't know what to change it too! Also, I want to get the 100 icons thing... but I'm going to wait for a bit on that one as I'm saving my money *nods* I will be good and not spend it much.

Oh, and I got my paper on the Vitruian Man done for Humanities: Perception Through The Arts. Yea!! And with almost 2 hours extra time before class; how lame awesome am I? I was going to do it Saturday, but I was ill. So I was going to do it yesterday, but, again, I was ill until the afternoon when I felt a bit better. After working on it for a bit, I got a migraine (through no fault of the paper) and had to go to bed early, drugged. But I woke up this morning feeling pretty good, not fully 100%, but defiantly better. After actually waking up (AKA, I'm SOOOO not a morning person. Just because I'm out of bed doesn't mean I'm human... I'm a zombie when I wake up!) I got to work on the paper. I'm glad I finished it in time. I woke up late, around 0945... plus add in the fact I fell asleep 2100... why is it I'm tired?

Anyways... now that that's done, I need to work on my Physics lab report, fun. No, seriously, it's fun! Okay... not the writing up the lab part, but the doing the lab part is fun :) I have a good partner this year, he can really get into the lab. I lucked out with him too: he doesn't get annoyed that I'm an A-oholic and want to do more trials than required and double check measurements. :)