Random Lines from my Thesis:
Not only do the golfers face sand and water hazards, they also face the more serious hazard of lightning from thunderstorms.
("Watch out for that bunker on #11, Harry.....Um, Harry, darn it, that's the third time this year. He always ends up looking like a cross between Albert Einstein and Christopher Lloyd. Where's the on-site defibrilator? Maybe by the time he comes to, this confounded rain will have stopped.")
Positive lightning also produces the highest directly measured lightning currents of approximately 300 kA.
("Hi Kids, I'm Volty the lightning bolt! Remember, when God closes a door, he opens a window! YAY!)
It was designed by Scottish architect Alister Makenzie.
(What in blazes does this have to do with lightning??)
A parametric method based on a multivariate normal distribution was used to derive the discriminant function. The individual within-group covariance matrices were used to calculate the measure of the squared distances.
(I really have no idea what that even means.)
Friendly fight for freezer food fasinates female and facilitates funny fotographic fallout.
Here are some pictures of the trip the my dad, my brother, and I took to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. They have one of the last two surviving uboats from WWII. It was really cool. Plus, we got to go down in a coal mine and to a farm. Ya, I know, Kyle and I fought over who would get to sit in the combine. Pretty sad...
There is a teaser site up for Spiderman 3. Not much on it yet, though.
If you haven't seen the commercials on TBS for their upcoming premiere of Lord of the Rings. Check them out. I particularly enjoy the one called "Frodo."
Wow, only one week with my new cluster map tracking my visitors, and I have someone from outside the U.S. that checked out my blog. Sweet. Although, I doubt the person from India really found it that interesting. I think the map is way better than a counter and feeds my need for geographic information. Besides people in Illinois, Indiana, and Washington (hasn't shown up yet), I don't know of anyone else who reads my blog. Hope they find it mildly amusing.
HALLELUJAH!!!!
My comprehensive exams are over with. Four and a half brutal hours of my life, I hopefully never have to relive again, except maybe during childbirth. On the plus side, I found out during my first of three essays that I only have to pass two out of the three. Score!
Although, one of my professors did make a funny. He started his question by saying, "Now that you are a world renowned lightning expert and governments are clamoring over you..." hee hee.
My friends at small group showed me this and I can't help but laugh...
Wednesday Night
8:38 p.m. Trisha: Do you want to run to Michael's with me? We have 20 minutes to get there before it closes. Me: OK, let's go.
8:40 p.m. We leave house. Trisha does three circles in the hallway and before she can figure out which light switch to turn off. We exit in her car.
8:41:30 p.m. Me: Let's take the back roads so we can go faster.
8:45 p.m. Trisha: Woah, I almost went straight there even when the road curved. I thought the telephone pole was the road continuing on. We would have launched 6 feet in the air and cut that pole clean in half. Ha.
8:50 p.m. We thankfully arrive at Michael's.
8:55 p.m. Exchange "Gothic" colored yarn for "Barrington" colored yarn. (Somehow both are purple).
8:58 p.m. Run to Old Navy storefront. Darn, closes at 9.
9:00 p.m. Waiting at stoplight by Caribou Coffee. Trisha: Coffee sound really good right now. If there was a turn lane right here... Me: Let's just Baja over the curb.
9:01 p.m. We turn right, then turn right, then turn right again and into Caribou Coffee.
9:02 p.m. Me: Score, they're open til 10.
9:02:15 p.m. Meet Sam, Jordan, and Brandon. Lots of "Heys" are exchanged.
9:04 p.m. We order two Turtle Mochas. Trisha's has espresso. I opt for Hot Chocolate.
9:06 p.m. Chat with Brandon about how he pays rent at Caribou Coffee, how I met my husband, and how his parents met in 7th grade in gym. They were paired together for square dancing because they were the shortest two in the class. Sam, Trisha, and I: Aww.
9:10 p.m. We get our "coffees." Jordan: Sit down for a second. Trisha: We need to get back, Tom should be home now. Me: Ah, we can stay for a second.
9:40 p.m. We exit Caribou Coffee full of caffeine and sugar.
9:50 p.m. Arrive home. Trisha and I part ways.
4:00 a.m. Unbeknownst to both of us, we are both just heading to bed. I read a 359 page book from cover to cover while Trisha played on the internet and branded herself with Caribou Coffee logo.
Office objects:
There is a set of 9-point deer antlers on the floor next to me. (Tom-1, Bambi-0)
Five jars of Play-doh. (One is still in cylinder form untouched)
A pair of thunderstix. (In case I get hungry (See post from October 5, 2004))
One Frisbee, one baseball, one tiny squishee football. (Football is a recent acquisition of unknown origins)
Close to 50 Navy Seals books, 7 meteorology books, 4 Get Fuzzy books, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Shooter's Bible. (hmm, no real Bible)
Three pictures of myself and Tom.
Two 2006 Star Wars poster calendars. (Because I figured one wasn't enough.)
And one Bob and Larry unsharpened pencil.
Take a listen to my Yahoo radio station! (if you dare, mwa ha ha, just kidding). From Smetena to Sting, lots of soundtracks and the occasional rock ballad. Happy Listening.
(Check it out under links.)
This is HI-larious if your a fan of the Simpsons. It's a live action version of the opening sequence.
In my class last night, our lecturer was a pedoligist which is someone who studies soils and soil processes. Anyway, he made a joke that no, he was not a pedofile and that his family always thought he was a pediatrist. It made me laugh and got me thinking as to why in the world do all those have a similar root?? Crazy english language.
No moving in 2006. (Although, I really have nothing to complain about, I bow down to Val the moving queen). Anyway, Tom within five days of sending out his resumes landed a job. (I can only pretend that my own job search will be that easy, Ha, ya right). So Tom starts a job with an International Trucking Dealership on Monday in Geneva which means we get to stay in Sycamore at least one more year. (So that they'll pay for his training this summer). But at least now I have a sense of where I can look for a job where as we thought we wouldn't know where we would end up until July. Score.
Alas, I was rooting for the Seahawks. Mostly, I didn't care who won, but they were the underdogs, they didn't beat the colts, and their quaterback wasn't Ben Rothlisburger (Former Miami of Ohio quaterback who beat my Huskies.)
However, this was one Super Bowl that actually had a large amount of funny commercials. So much so that it was really hard to pick out a favorite. But here it is anyway. Enjoy.
They are making Prince Caspian for a 2007 release. And why wouldn't they, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is so far the 28th most watched movie ever. (What a random statistic.)