Kopaka's Ice Engineering

For anyone interested: I'm finally finishing up here.....*whistling*

AT 9:30 AT NIGHT! *ugh*

-KIE

Chemicals

What? I'm a spelling nazi or something!

Unless it's names of spiked Kanohi...then I have problems...

-KIE

It's dihydrogen monoxide. If you don't specify, it might could be misinterpreted as another oxide of hydrogen: Hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, which actually will mess ya up if taken internally.

Get it right if you're gonna tell the joke

-KIE

Only because I'm here will I respond. After this, I'm closing BZP until I'm almost done with work.

I'm a civil engineer, right now working on a watershed for a subdivision in Slidell, LA. While I would like a command in ArcToolbox to calculate the areas of my watershed polygons enclosed by contour polylines, I can't get it to work. Instead, I'm drawing polygons (attempting to trace the contours & watershed boundaries) in ArcGIS 3.2 and noting the area of the polygon I just drew, then calculating in Excel.

But, like I said, I got more work than I have time to do it; if I'm going to take tomorrow off. And boy, do I need to take tomorrow off.

-KIE

No offense, but I always said I'd slash my wrists before working in food service.

Not that I had any room to talk later: my engineering degree and I spent 11 weeks pushing carts at Wal-Mart.

-KIE

I can help rectify problems you mention in #3: The badges this year will be black and white, and will look like a functioning clapboard.

-KIE, who will have his light grey Kanohi Rau attached to his badge, assuming Omi remembers to bring the necessary pieces

Ditto the Cap'n.

Better than the "Sparkling Vanilla Creme Sodas" and red cream sodas out there.

Anyone ever had Big Red? I'm talking about the soft drink, not the cinnamon chewing gum.

-KIE

It's called "work," GN.

It's what adults who cannot make a living off of eBay do to get money to go to things like BrickFest.

-KIE

Eh....my flight leaves FRIDAY, GN.

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AND DON'T GO TELLING MY SECRETS!

-KIE

I dunno if it's just me, but bottled coke (glass) tastes better than canned ones do, maybe it's the glass or something.

It's not just you: while smaller aluminum cans preserve carbonation better than a larger plastic bottle, glass bottles don't transfer into the flavor the contents.

For instance, sample the same apple or peach (but not a strong flavor like cherry) pie recipe, one baked in an aluminum pan, the other in a glass pan.

And don't start any pie joke tangents.

-KIE

Hey, I like Vanilla Coke, too!

Vanilla Coke drinkers unite!

-KIE

Might you share with us which two they were, and mayhap some initial thoughts?

Your girlfriend is a Coke can?

Would you believe that, at nearly 27 years of age (well, 26 & 11 months this Friday), I have never worn braces?

Be they of the orthodontic or orthopedic variety, they've never graced my person.

I had a retainer that partially corrected an underbite, but that was back in elementary school, over 15 years ago. Other than that, my teeth (including the third molars a.k.a. "wisdom teeth") all came out straight.

-KIE

CS Northridge? Go Matadors!

-KIE, who went to a school that plays Division I-AA football as well: McNeese State University

Prepare to lose sleep, Takatu.

-KIE, who has just been let in on it

Not to mention "futile"

Arr....ye be needin' a blacksmit t' bang out some cutlasses fer ye crew thar, Cap'n?

I's may not 'ave me sea legs, but I's can supply ye wit' some blades...an' some pairs o' sai fer th' ninja who think they's poirates.

Yarr...

-KIE, who needs to work on the accent more than a little

*head hurts*

-KIE

Rather than the four seasons, maybe the four Archimedian elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire.

-KIE

Except when scented candles are burning.

Then, the pangs of regret are not as evident, and one might chop an onion without shedding such tears.

It's how I do it.

-KIE, who loves to cook sweet onion & minced garlic in his hash browns

Nah, you'd better hope he brings a lot of good stuff there: he's the coordinator for all of BIONICLE there at Brickfest.

Meaning, he can't slack off right now, right Omi?

-KIE

But is it more annoying than snakes on a plane?

Or flash-frozen hotdog buns for the über-lazy?

-KIE, who will be representing Louisiana at BrickFest 2006 in a week & change

Get them from the "Oakley" catalogue. It's where I got my last pair:

M-Frame Rx...cost $440 including the exam, but the best testosterone enhancement I could get.

Withouth, of course, using any flaxseed oil or the like

-KIE

So important, it required 3 postings!

-KIE

*slowly waves hand* ... You do not see any mystifying triple-posting. Toa business. Go back to your drinks.

– ToM