Mysterious Minifig

As far as stuff I own, the Mos Eisley Cantina 4501 is probably one of my favorites. For such a simple set, I got a lot of playability out of it when I was little. I don't own any of the larger UCS sets though, so I'm not going to pick one of them.

After being gone for another 10 months without checking in, I'm finally back again. I guess I'm not getting emails about blog comments, because I had one from January that was still sitting there unapproved. I switched it so everything should auto approve again. I'm back in school again this semester. The co-op with Bobcat was successful. I had fun, made a little money, and gained a lot of valuable experience. If you are going into an engineering field, I would strongly suggest taking semester break from school sometime time during college and doing a Co-op. If you do it with a good company you can gain a lot of experience and it will help you get a job after graduation. Classes are fairly busy, almost as busy as last fall, although it doesn't really feel that. I'm now through all of the easy classes and am now working my way through the hard ones, heat and mass transfer and machine design. Mostly I'm back now because my younger brother keeps sending me stuff about Bionicle coming back. I figured I would come back and take a look at the news and find out what he's talking about. Some of the sets look cool, but I probably won't get any since there is currently no money available in the budget for that sort of thing. Another Tahu might be nice though. Anyway, maybe I'll be around more, or maybe school will pick up and I'll become busy with that once again, at this point I'm not really sure.

The sets themselves look pretty cool, but the prices are just way too high. Back when I first bought the Tahu Mata, something that high priced would have just been way too expensive. I suppose the complexity and piece count has increased, but I still think the main entry level characters should be priced a little bit lower than $20. The defenders just don't seem as cool as one of the main characters.

Could just mean that TLM 2 will get more time to perfect. Or they just focus on the Batman movie first. If that thing flops, we'll have to wait two years for something hopefully better. It would be so bad if TLM 2 flopped even harder. If the LEGO Batman movie flops they may just cancel TLM 2, especially if they are having trouble findingsomeone to work on it. I don't think any of them will though, since it seems like almost anything put out with LEGO is a success.

My old dentist used to give out Trident gum when we got done with our exam. He wasn't advocating replacing teeth brushing with the gum but still.

I finished my last final of the semester yesterday around 3 PM which means that winter break is finally here. This past semester was crazy busy and it didn't give a lot of time to do much of anything besides school work. Grades won't be in for another week, but I feel like I did pretty well in most of my classes this semester. The grades may not be quite as good as the previous few semesters, but at this point I'm not hugely concerned. Now that classes are done I have a little bit of time to relax and catch up on all the things that I didn't have time for this past semester. It would be nice to pull out my LEGOs and do something with but it probably won't happen as I packed them all up together towards the end of the summer. The other exciting bit of news is that I accepted a Co-op position with Bobcat as a Manufacturing intern, which means I'm done with school until next August. It means I also have to move out of my current apartment. It's kind of sad in way, as the apartment is probably one of the best possible places to live. It's on campus and only 5 minutes from all my classes and the rent is really cheap. Moving out was an eventuality though. If it didn't happen now, it would have happened in March when I get married. Anyway, that's what is happening with me.

@#1 I've read it and it definitely worth it. It may take a long time, (I think I spent 2 months reading most days somewhere between 30 min to 2 hours) @#2 I've also read this and I didn't think it was that intimidating. I sat down and plowed through it pretty quickly a couple of weeks at most. It's a really good book and I would read it again. I was also pretty young when I read it too. @#5 Lots of stuff to say about this. I think it's just a matter of picking the right one to start with. I read Great Expectations a couple of years ago and that was an amazing book. I also read Oliver Twist this summer and that was pretty good. On the other hand, I also tried to read Bleak House and I wasn't able to finish it. @#9 All I can say is that I think War & Peace is overrated. I finished it last winter and it was okay, but it wasn't exceptional. I don't think I'd ever want to read it again, unlike the rest of the books I've mentioned. Also as a sidenote, if and when you read some of these, get the full version, don't settle for an abridged version. You have to watch out with the Count of Monte Christo, because I've heard there are a lot of abridged versions available that aren't labeled as such. Les Miserables is probably okay abridged, but it would better if you skipped parts on your own rather then not having them available at all. I remember there being about a 50 page side track on the Battle of Waterloo and another unnecessary discussion about the Paris sewers.

Well, It likes I haven't updated for a while. School is finished for the summer. I'm not sure if the past sememster was easy or not, but I enjoyed it. It's wierd knowing I'm a junior now. A lot of the friends I made when I first got to college were juniors, so either they've graduated now, or will be graduating in December. I guess my girlfriend is the exception though, since she'll graduate next May. It's wierd knowing I'm already half done with college. I'm spending this summer working at the same engineering company that I've been at for a couple of years now. It's not bad, but I feel like I'm being under utilized. Next summer will be better as I'll be working somewhere different. Hopefully a much larger company. I probably won't home either, since only one option would allow me to live at home. Anyway, not much else has happened. I'll probably poke my head around again towards the end of summer or something, I just haven't had time for message boards and forums lately. I suppose that's the way life goes though.

I'm in favor of keeping the Palm Pilot. I always wanted one up to the point where I got an iPod touch, because I realized the iPod was pretty much the same thing.

I'm going to the National FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) Conference, SEEK 2013 in January. I just thought I would throw that out in case there is someone else who is going to be there. I know ChocolateFrogs went to a regional conference a while back, but maybe there's someone else who is going to be there. In other news, I'm finally finished with my third semester. All my classes went well, but we'll see what I ended up getting on my Thermodynamics final since right now that's my only class that the A was in question. Winter break should be fun, I'm going to try to finish the second half of War and Peace, which I started last summer, and I'm probably going to start playing Starflight, an 80's DOS game which appears to have been an insperation for a lot of later games.

I enjoyed Calc II a lot when I took it last fall. I'm also taking Physics II next semester, although I'm not looking forward to it, because from what I've heard, the guy teaching it can't teach.

Does your college have a pool or something. I suppose it kind of makes sense, with all the liability stuff that goes on these days.

I didn't know that was a genre. It opens a lot more possibilities for dancing music.

Summer has come to an end and that can only mean school is starting. I thought this semester would be easier then the last two semesters, but it's turning out as being almost as packed as last spring. I'm only taking 12 credits this semester but none of those are easy. I'm also working quite a bit. Although really, I'm enjoying stuff a lot more now though, after working 40 hours a week this summer. Classes for this fall are Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Intro to Engineering Processes, and (Intro to) Linear Algebra. I'm not sure if Linear Algebra or Thermodynamics will end up being the hardest class this semester. I'm pretty sure the Engineering Processes class will end up being my favorite though. We get run machines and create stuff in that class. I'm also work about 15-20 hours a week. Ten hours a week at the university's tutoring center and then varying hours as a TA for the ME department CAD class. It's shaping up to be a good semester even if it is pretty busy.

My girl friend's computer (not a mac) is the same way. It will connect to wifi anywhere on campus except the residence halls. If it doesn't work, just a get a cable and use a wired connection.

I've been using a pair of JLabs J2s for about a year and a half now and they seem to be working pretty nicely. They sound pretty good, or atleast better then anything I've used before and they were pretty reasonably priced on Amazon ($15). There was some complaints in reviews about the quality, but it seemed like if you wanted to go to the trouble of contacting the company about problems they would replace them. I haven't run into any issues though, but I guess I'm not super heavy user either.

We had a Boy Scout hike recently, which meant I was able to pull out my camera and take a few pictures. Just to note, the seconded was tweaked a little bit, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

I think I fall into the same catagory as you. I like my stuff to be single purpose most of the time. My phone should be a phone and only a phone. I'm kind of meh on the whole concept of owning a smart phone. I have an iPod touch that I use for music, and I also use it for e-mail and web, but that's only because my laptop is too big to cart around.

I kind of felt the same way when I was graduating from high school. There were a lot of people I knew and was kind of sort of friends with, but I never really had any super close friends. It's turned around a lot in the last 9 months though, since I've been off to college. I wouldn't say I have a lot of super close friends, but the friends I do have I'm a lot better friends wiith them then I was with anyone in high school.

If there's anything people should take from this entry it's this. Too many people people think it's the other way around, which is why there are so many problems with our society. Feelings will eventually pass, but that doesn't mean you have to stop loving.

He sounds like an amazing person, both as a coach and a teacher. Reading that brings back memories of my high school track experience. Mr. Telega was my coach, and while he's certainly not of the same caliber as Mr. Tacke, he also pushed all of us to do our best, both on and off the track.

At least it's after finals and not before or during.

Currently taking dynamics and general plane motion of a rigid body makes my head hurt. I want my particle kinematics back. These last two and a half weeks of the semester are going to be a nightmare too. For some reason last semester wasn't nearly as bad this semester.

I feel like I should have taken the full Calc III instead of the Multivariable Calc. Maybe I'll just end up teaching myself that last chapter this summer as a project. Although I'm pretty sure I know how that will end.

I was always a fan of Netscape Navigator. However, I currently use Firefox, with the occasional use of IE and Chrome.