What's the latest in people's lives?

[Lt. Staplic]

lol...but then you get an extra hour to piss around with in the fall.

[Tsukiyumi]

I didn't know you guys had daylight saving crap. Good to know that's not just American idiocy.

[Sionnach Glic]

Yup, that's one bit of idiocy that's near universal.

[Reliant121]

Well, I now finally have a bike for school and other purposes. With the recent increase of C-Banders knowing about ME in "that sence" ( i gather you can guess ), riding a bike is probably safer. C-Band is the stupid band basically, the idiots or those that misbehave on purpose. These guys know no boundaries, and i would not put it past them to attack me on the way home. So riding a bike hopefully will give me the speed to get out of a situation quickly. Thats the idea anyway.

[Capt. Jethro]

Vacation was over with last week, we did he Disney and Sea World thing, and it was time to go back to work. Back end of the clock stuff ain't fun if you haven't done it for a few weeks.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I ended up staying up basically all of Friday night/Saturday morning with technical stuff (it's a long story in full) but the good news is that I've a new and good RL friendship with a computer engineer who is a graduate of the same engineering program I'm now close to graduating from (though I'm in for Mechanical engineering) - we've talked over this stuff and he's helping me out in some ways.

As to the school part, I register for the last time Apr 6 - next fall will be my last semester before I face the cold reality of the job market. I have a new design project idea - the bicycle idea I mentioned a while back turned out to be too difficult to build - we don't have the facilities on campus to build custom machine parts and my partner and I aren't familiar enough with commercial clutch and flywheel systems to work with them. The new project deals with preventing fires in clothes dryers. It'll detect the amount of lint buildup present, alert the owner to the level of hazard, and shut down the dryer if and when lint contamination reaches a certain level. This one seems very practical and doable; the prof has modeled it in such a way for us that if makes a good, proper design project.

[Tsukiyumi]

Well, I now finally have a bike for school and other purposes. With the recent increase of C-Banders knowing about ME in "that sence" ( i gather you can guess ), riding a bike is probably safer. C-Band is the stupid band basically, the idiots or those that misbehave on purpose. These guys know no boundaries, and i would not put it past them to attack me on the way home. So riding a bike hopefully will give me the speed to get out of a situation quickly. Thats the idea anyway.

I'll PM you a link to something good; perhaps they have classes near you.

CPH - don't give up on that bike idea; I like that one. Your new one sounds promising as well, though. I've got a couple of new ones I'm working on, but I'll reveal them after I have the patents.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Thanks Tsu. Relaint: good luck - I got my share of flack in grade school through high school (at the end of the latter I finally started to break out of my shell) for being completely isolated and withdrawn, but it rarely got to full-on physical abuse, and certainly not that outside of school. I mainly got a big dose of the standard bullying and teasing that 'unpopular' kids get but perhaps they thought it wasn't worth it to attack a target that just did nothing. At any rate, I turned out well and as long as you take care to serve your happiness and well-being you'll wind up ahead of blowhards like those kids.

[Tsukiyumi]

I was the nerd who picked on bullies.

[Reliant121]

The last time one of the chavs started something i had him pinned against a wall.

Bit different with knife-wielding, house attacking bastards that travel in packs.

[Tsukiyumi]

The last time one of the chavs started something i had him pinned against a wall.

Bit different with knife-wielding, house attacking bastards that travel in packs.

Yeah, getting your head stomped by several pairs of boots is never fun. I know from experience.

I take it you haven't gone to any authorities about this problem?

[Reliant121]

The last time one of the chavs started something i had him pinned against a wall.

Bit different with knife-wielding, house attacking bastards that travel in packs.

Yeah, getting your head stomped by several pairs of boots is never fun. I know from experience.

I take it you haven't gone to any authorities about this problem?

Not until it actually happens. We'd be laughed out of the station.

[Lt. Staplic]

Reliant - from what I see around my high school, most kids like that are all talk...don't let them intimidate you, or at least don't let them see that they've intimidated you, and you should be fine.

[Bryan Moore]

Last night was fun. Spent the day at my college fraternity's initiation, then the night sober driving for the college kids. Fun/weird fending off an 18 year old, and made me wish I was 5 years younger again. Either way, good times.

[Thorin]

Reliant - from what I see around my high school, most kids like that are all talk...don't let them intimidate you, or at least don't let them see that they've intimidated you, and you should be fine.

From experience, a perfectly timed right hook to the cheekbone normally scares them off. The guy I did that to never talked to me after that - apart from once, a week later, when he asked me (increadibly politely) to not hit him again before skulking off. I'm pretty sure he's now in jail for armed robbery...

The moral of the story? Make sure you don't hit anyone who may in the future have access to guns and will remember your face.

CPH, would the bike idea be feasible? I'd have thought the weight of the flywheel would counteract any helping force it may give at the beginning of climbing a hill - once it stops rotating it's just dead weight, and it would surely stop rotating before you were all the way up a hill the same size as the one you had to come down to actually start it rotating.