observations of the day

Nothing is more annoying than banner ads with typos. I'm half-tempted to click just to try to send a nasty email saying that "e-business" has three s's in total, not two.

Much as I prefer typing over hand-writing in almost all circumstances, I can't for my life write anything with meter on the computer. (Not that I can write anything with meter in general, but still.) I'm just completely incapable of keeping track of unstressed and stressed without writing little u/u/u/u/u/'s all over my paper.

Wouldn't a word processor that subtly displayed the rhythm above your text automatically be great? I would be amused, at least. :P

*significant sigh* Guys.

So I went to the Thursday robotics meeting tonight, since they're the only ones I can make because the Fountain meeting on Monday is at the same time. I swear they were at the exact same point as last week, meaning they did nothing at all for two hours Monday, and last week I remember noticing that (give or take a pair of wheels) they were in the same place as the week before. (Unless that was Thanksgiving in which case I mean two weeks before.)

Let me slow down and clarify: we are building battlebots, and by the "they" in the previous paragraph, I mean the half-dozen guys on the wedge team. (Which I am on because they would get absolutely nothing done otherwise.) The half-dozen guys on the flipper team have dimensions and tentative locations for internals. We've got a side-view sketch, now, and that's because I drew it today, while the guys made ruler jokes. ("Dude, look at my huuuuuge ruler." "Look at how you're touching my ruler." "Stop playing with your ruler!") Sometimes -- or maybe "always" is the word I'm looking for -- freshman boys drive me crazy. And I'm inclined to think they're all freshmen at heart.

fun with iambic pentameter

Between my Shakespeare class and the sonnets of doom that an acquaintance of mine was showing around, I came to the realization that I had never written one of those buggers.

So I did. During astronomy and math class today, with the minimum possible effort, but for the morbidly curious...
( Just promise me if you start reading you'll read all the way though. It's only fourteen lines and it's not quite Vogon. It was actually almost serious till, oh, line 6... )