View from thode

Well the more unglamorous side of being an Engineer is that you'd get aquianted with Thode library.... Very aquainted.








It also goes without saying that the best articles you will ever read are done while you a procrastinating so here's today's selection.

Work Work Work....

So much to do so little time is the name of the game it seems.

Maddy's Back!

Much to our surprise Maddy makes her glorious return to the little city of Hamilton.



The plan was originally to go see Borat the movie but it seems to be the in thing to do. So without a ticket we were left finding other forms of entertainment for ourselves.



We can't explain the giant crusafix all I can say is it's spooky spooky I say!

Halloween Recap

This year the engineering society decided to have their Halloween festivities early and not inform all the engineers in 4th year (thanks guys). We all know however that despite this I'll find a way to pull off this year's fantastic Halloween costume.

The Construction

Before we can go to any parties we need a costume right? Well ever since 5G it's been tradition that you A) have to be something in your field of study, and B) must be home made. I was pretty settled on my initial idea a while ago on being a mouse cursor so I went to get the stuff.

This year I started with 2 sheets of foam (which was actually one large sheet cut in half) $4.95 from home depot.



Next we need a reference mouse cursor, I printed this one out in big and worked out that to get it to fit on my block of foam I'd need it to be scaled 1:18.3.



I got spray paint while at the home depot so instead of using painstaking markers I could spray away and give the mouse cursor a more authentic look. To do this we need to mask away the areas we will be painting.



And now we paint and.....



The Party

So what's one to do with a finished costume but no engineering party to go to? Go to the biology party of course!






Jen decided to bob for apples.... Considering how she eats ice cream the ending here is rather clean.

Dollarama Fun
You too can look this awsome for the low low price of 1 dollar! It's always fun walking down the isles of dollarama playing with all their tacky stuff, but no one quite pulls it off like Jenny!

Maria Turns 22!

Maria arrived at her birthday with class grace. Just look at that smile she could do a Crest commercial right now and people would believe her. The birthday party was hosted at crabby joe's. Fun atmosphere to take your friends at a good price I might add.



After crabby's food, pool was the order of the night. Strangely we opted for an undrunken pool fest which turned out to be much more entertaining than I expected.



2 seconds later after this photo I stab Brad.... Ok I wish I did {evil grin}.



After pool both cameras were broken out and an all out camera war ensued.



Flashes fire shutters clicked, as cameras rapidly flashed the room!



Innocent bystandards were unfortunate enough to get in the crossfire.



Well... I put a caption on this one ;-)



Oh and how was the cake? Well watch below:

Where did the street light go?

There has been trouble on main street it seems. Some drunken driver in the middle of the night has decided he was going to test the limit of his car. One fallen street light and a school fence later this is the after math.







So if your wondering why we have a temporary light where the rest are cement... This would be why.

Wolfgang's Replacement

It seems that my roomate Alex has finally decided to take the position declared as "Wolfgang's Replacement".

At Thode again

Yesterday was another 7:00pm-11:30pm at Thode, today will also be another 2 + 3 hours at thode.

This might be the cold talking but I think I spend 110% of my time on school related stuff. Well let's work this out:

there are 8am-10pm (14 hours) useful working hours in a day which we will treat as 100% output the remaining 10pm-12pm is considered slack time including eating time for the whole day breakfast / lunch / dinner (2 hours) and from 12am-8am the following day is your standard 8 hours of required sleep.

However I don't work from 8am - 10pm I work from 8am - 11:30pm yesterday and on average 8am - 1:00am close to 15.5-17 hours but we'll call that 16 hours to be fair.

so if 14 hours = 100% 16 hours = 114%

Now you may be asking where does this extra 14% come from? well it certainly can't come from the slack time cause 2 hours for breakfast lunch dinner shower is already pushing it. It comes from sleep time obviously.

I loose about 14% sleep to work / day, that's quite tragic.

McDonalds


Lol normally I hate the stuff but this was too damn good!

Thode Library


Well back in thode again, that will make it the third time this week I'm spending more tha an hour at Thode.... Well I'd write more but I really should be working.