Pesky Subjects

Don't you hate it when you're just sitting around, deciding what should happen with your domain, and one of your subjects Facebook chats you saying they now have free will?

I mean really...if you're not paying attention and I send you a telepathic order, odds are you're gonna mistake my order from your own free will!  So, problems going on there.  If this does happen, though, you gotta stomp out the subversion quickly.  Regain dignity by scoring higher than the rebellious subject on a math quiz and BAM, you're back on top.

Symphony Orchestras Disappearing?

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But after 30 years' close observation of orchestral ups and downs and half a century after the Arts Council pronounced that London needed just one super-orchestra, I have reached the irreversible conclusion that the symphony orchestra will always survive — not on the weary old argument that it is somehow "good for you" to listen to "good music", nor on any cod theories that classical music breeds clever kids and better citizens, but simply because there is a cogent human need for what an orchestra adds to the relief of city life. That need becomes ever clearer as the world speeds up

Music has been one of the omnipresent factors in society.  I may be opinionated by my status as a trumpet player, but I, for one, think that a society without music is a society without culture.  It disappoints me that people today would rather watch men run into each other while fighting over a leather ball than listen to music that actually stimulates the brain.  Maybe Katy Perry is the new hip thing, but try going to an orchestra concert and really listen.  "Fame is a fickle food", but legends last indefinitely.

For Realz this Time

Real Science Project

Okay, so I edited a bit.  I have the trumpet version playing while the trombone with pitch turned down and a little stereo delay is playing at the same time....BACKWARDS!  I just reversed the clip and it sounds AMAZING!

Song Remix

Lover - by Jack Teagarden

My song was originally a trombone solo by the famous Jack Teagarden, but with some pitch adjustments and other things, it has become a trumpet solo in a very echoey auditorium.

Note               Frequency                    Wavelength (cm.)
C                     65.41                                 527
E-flat                77.78                                444
A                      440                                   78.4
G                     196                                    176
F                     87.31                                  395

The Next U.F.O

Keep looking out on the news, people, because Team Buoy's abnormal container will be on it.  That's right....alien objects will be falling to Earth late Friday afternoon.

So the design is basically a cylinder (Clorox bottle) with tennis balls and duct tape.  The tennis balls are to absorb any impact the container might encounter and help it float.  The duct tape is to make it waterproof (and because nothing can go wrong with duct tape).  Not only does this thing have enough tennis balls to make any dog's dream (and enough duct tape to make mine), it's useful.

We have not factored in a shutter camera simply because we find this idea ridiculous and nonsensical.  I'm just kidding.  But we're going to fill the inside with felt and Georgio, the anorexic squirrel.   A thin film of plastic covers the whole that the camera lens is near.  However, this plastic was punctured some time between today and yesterday (I blame Steven the Squirrel) so we must reattach it with great haste for the date is approaching!

During one of our trial runs, the container withstood the impact of falling for three-thousand feet into a pool of crocodiles then jumping through a flaming hoop.  But the camera ran out of battery!  I blame Gavin.  So we only got film of me saying "We're like the creators of the Titanic."

The launch is going to be Friday around 1:20 (of course you know this, but what if I have a stalker) at an unspecified location on the peaks of the Himalayas.  We'll be doing this with the Arcadia kids and some nice Mexicans who said they would act as sherpas for us...Just kidding.

Also, if you type in "camera into space" on google images, one of the pictures on the first page is of Connor and Will and our stalker-maps of SC.  Pretty exciting.  Well, in my opinion, it most definitely is.

So, we need to get this thing up into space....the final frontier.

Balloon Car

Our balloon car weighed 125 grams (grahams).  If it were 125 Grahams, Elizabeth would be really, REALLY happy.  It went 151 centimeters, which really isn't that far.  Our group was infatuated with the idea of using a slingshot, or "chicken".  It went this distance in 5 seconds.  I find this disappointing.

The acceleration is 6.04 centimeters per seconds squared.  6.04 times 125 equals 755.  Force = mass x acceleration, so the force is 755 newtons.  The velocity is 30.2 delta v over delta t.  I shall post pictures later....if I feel like it.

10 Reasons to Date a Unicorn

1. They fart glitter. (For all the Glambert fans!)
2. Better TV reception.
3. Easily disguisable as a rhino (to avoid suspicion)
4. They're good for exercise
5. When you eat their feces, it prolongs your life.  (Voldemort had it all wrong)
6. They can turn mosquitoes into Skittles and jelly beans (Now I see why "good for exercise" was included)
7. They make OK parachutes (as do cannonballs and sub contra bass tubas.
8. Rainbows on demand (Yeah, leprechaun-hunting time!)
9. Free sleigh rides
10. Tetherball (Should've started with that one)

Ten Reasons to Date a Unicorn (with pictures!)

Hitler's found happiness!  Why can't you?