They figured out I’m a geek.
Apparently I was asking far too many detailed questions about Dash systems in class. I like to know how everything works, but everyone else in the class is busy struggling with the basics. This is nothing new in life.
Yesterday, my instructor spontaneously and with no obvious provocation turned to me and asked, “What’s Avogadro’s number?”
Without missing a beat, or really thinking about it, I spouted out, “6.022 x 10^23”. A split second after I said it, I realized that the question had nothing to do Dash 8 systems, at least in any obvious sense. “Why?” I asked.
“I just knew you’d know it,” he said and laughed. So then several other people in the class got confused and asked what he’d asked me. He just said, “It’s a chemistry thing,” and then they all joined together and laughed at me.
Sometimes things never change.
ASU Williams Campus Photos
I took my camera with me to class this morning and took photos on my way. I have to go 1.5 miles northeast, but there aren’t any diagonal roads, so I take lots of different routes. There are all sort of very strange things on my way. So I photographed many of them. There are also some photos of the boring base housing. The once-weekly cleaning person swept up a lot of the crickets, and I figured you guys would complain if I posted photos of the bugs.
The photos are up on the gallery. I would suggest clicking on one of them then paging through with the next button. The thumbnails are square, but the images are not, so you miss out if you just look at the thumbnails. I would write more, but I spent hours culling and cropping the photos, so be content with that.
Dr. Gilbert Burnham, the guy who did a study on deaths in Iraq, is barred for five years from serving as a principal investigator on research involving human subjects. His sin was collecting the names of people who were supposed to be anonymous.
Berck Update
Berck hasn’t been very talkative, but this seems like the most efficient way of letting everyone know things.
He’s got his favorite instructor, so not much to complain about there.
His roommate moved out, so he has a whole house to himself. Unfortunately, he has to share it with a myriad of dead crickets on the floors and the occasional gigantic roach that shows up.
His bed has wheels on it that makes it move across the floor whenever he turns over.
He talked the driver who picked him up from the airport late Sunday night to stop by Wal-Mart on the way home. His house has a fridge and a kitchen. He eats sandwiches and drinks Newcastle and Bass.
His house is about a mile and a half from the classrooms. He walks it instead of waiting for a shuttle. It takes him about half an hour.
His class is between 10 am and 7 pm.
There are 8 people in his class, including three females.
His instructor gave them Dash 8 patches for MS Flight Simulator, so Berck can practice at home. He spent all of Saturday morning doing so. He hadn’t gotten to the electrical system yet, so it took him a while to figure out how to turn it on.