Robots and some news

I walked into my room the other day only to see an epic battle of robotic proportions. What did I see?



Yes, that's right, R2D2 battling a robot lamp in a game of Rock-em-Sock-em Robots. What is the world coming to?!

Ok, and now for the news. I'm discovering that it's very difficult to keep up two blogs as much as I'd like. No, I'm not getting rid of this blog. But, I won't be able to update daily or semi-daily like I used to. With my current course load, activities, and schedule it's just not feasible. I will update though. For better or for worse I will probably be updating my MIT blog more than this one (I mean, I'm being paid to update that one, I need to do my job).

What I'm getting at is that maybe you shouldn't check this blog everyday hoping for an entry. Check once a week or so and you should be pleasantly surprised by an entry or two. Also, if you check the MIT blogs regularly, I've decided to implement a secret code that will let you know if I've made an entry in this blog you should check out.

They way I intend for this to work is for you regular readers to just read my MIT blog and if you see

-:-

at the bottom of the entry it means I've published something in my personal blog recently that you should go check out. That way you only need to read one blog until I let you know that there's something new over here. Of course you can still check this blog and read past entries if you feel like, I'm just cutting down the frequency of new entries.

I know, this is like the equivalent of a restaurant raising its prices, I'm sorry, but I'm not superhuman and can only write so much.

SUCH A GOOD IDEA!

Seriously, do they make these? If so, I need to buy a ton of them!

Who? Update [1]

**UPDATE**

So, this doesn't work anymore :(

It used to translate "Heath Ledger is dead" to "Tom Cruise esta muerto," which is, well, strange.

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Sorry about no posts for a while. I'm still trying to figure out this "Two Blog" thing. Give it some time, I'll get back to some kind of system.

You should go to Google Translator:

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|es

And translate "Heath Ledger is dead" from English to Spanish.

Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? Why does this happen?

HELP WITH MYSTERY HUNT!

IDENTIFY THESE TWO CARTOON CHARACTERS PLEASE!!!!!

I was tired last night

First off, thanks for saying hi to Maddie everybody, she says hi back and appreciates it.

Second off, I thought I'd show you evidence of how tired I was last night. After a game of extreme spoons (filmed, currently being edited and set to music) I did some laundry and hopped into bed so I could read about my physics lab I had to do the next day. After finishing my lab I worked on editing one of my MIT blog entries and then the next thing I know I'm awake, looking around, and it's 8:30 in the morning. That's right, I actually fell asleep at my computer.

When I was in bed my I was laying on my back with my computer on my chest, not unlike a techno-savvy otter. When I woke up, my computer was on my desk. I turned it on and was immediately greeted by the "You have about 7 minutes of battery left" warning. When it boots up I am greeted with this screen:



Click it to make it larger. Not only had I fallen asleep at my computer, I had fallen asleep ON my computer. I panicked. I quickly navigated to the MIT blogs to make sure I hadn't accidentally slept on the "Publish" button, but I was safe. I erased all of the extraneous characters from the entry and plugged the computer into the wall. Now it was time to ponder . . . how, if I had fallen asleep on my computer, did it end up closed and on my desk? Did I do it in my sleep or did somebody take it out from under me and put it up there for me?

There is very little point to this blog entry, just something I found interesting this morning.

Maddie

Just a quick post to say hi to Maddie.

Hi Maddie!

Everybody else should leave a comment to say hi to Maddie!

lol-mice

In case you can't tell, those are mice balls. . .

Hosed

Somehow, believe it or not, I've managed to become hosed over IAP.

That's right, that month-long break when everybody gets to relax, I've managed to saturate it with work. I guess that makes me kinda dumb. Here's what my IAP looks like:

> Finishing up 8.01L
> Taking 6.270
> UROP
> Blogging
> Geometry Wars

Between these five things I have effectively gotten right back into the swing of MIT. Now, granted, I enjoy these particular activities more than my other classes so I'm not as depressed/angry/bitter as normal, but I'm still busy.

BTW, it snowed today! Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow!

No Pants

I rode around on the T (subway) with no pants today for about 2 hours. I will blog about this in more depth, believe me, but I'm waiting for all of the pictures and movies to hit the internet first. It will be epic, patience.

The nitty-gritty will be on this blog, the cleaner version will hit the MIT blogs. They'll be different, so read both!

Improv Everywhere: Part I

Hey all! So, quick background:

Back in High School, Senior year, my friend Jake showed me a series of extremely funny videos online that were made by a group called "Improv Everywhere." Improv Everywhere consists of a large group of people (50 to 100 or more, different every time) who pull large performance pranks. Performance pranks? Well, take for instance their Best Buy improv. They had 80 people dressed in blue polo shirts and khaki pants walk into a Best Buy in Manhattan and just stand around in the store with their arms crossed, confusing all the customers flooding the store with fake "staff."



Another favorite is when they took 50ish cell phones, put them into backpacks, and turned their backpacks in behind the counter of a store. They then proceeded to call every single one of the phones at the same time. Hilarity ensued.

Do a YouTube search for Improv Everywhere, you won't regret it.



Today they're doing another of their performance pranks in the little old city of Boston. I think I may go help, it's for a good cause (well, by good cause, I mean it makes for great internet video). What are they doing?

Cick