Recent content by Chi Meson

No wheels! Is that the first time ever? I got to find a video of that! Easy search:

What have I been doing recently? Winning! https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/581730_10200909442282350_422540557_n.jpg Winners of the WPI Regional FIRST Robotics Competition These are all the mentors of our team, the Aluminum Falcons. We led the 6th-seeded alliance through a series...

The robot is in the bag. It's "Stop Build Day" in the FRC world. Last Saturday we won the pre-season scrimmage in Suffield , CT, for the 2nd year. That was without even being able to shoot (we have a beastly defensive driver!). I'll try to get an image up

If you searched PF for "Mensa" and "IQ" you will get a good idea of our collective opinion on the whole "IQ" thing. In short, the consensus is that an IQ score measures a person's ability to take a standardized IQ test. Here's what you are asking for: I was tested in 6th grade by a guy who came...

If anyone from the National Spelling Bee would like to buy rights to this word, contact me. Otherwise, feel free to use this cromulent word.

Let it be known that my daughter, Nell, made this word up. It has two spellings, quadroceptological, and quadraceptological. The authorities are now disputing the issue, and the form that is deemed to be spurious will be discarded. Nevertheless, when you google quadroceptological OR...

Thanks everyone. Evo, that cake is totally indigestible! But thanks anyway. ***buuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAPP***I'm divisible by 12 again. Those are always good years. Here's the best version:

It's Frisbee! No one saw this coming!

Oh jiminy, here we go. There is chatter out there, and it is suggesting that this game is going to be unlike any prior FRC game. Somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who's been assembling the field parts is saying that no one is ready for this year. Tune into NASA (cable or website)...

You beat me to it! I was going to say that "teams can get aluminum stock for their robot chassis with fastening holes drilled every 1.27 cm" Aw jeez, it's tomorrow! *hyperventilates*

The game is different each year. Some basic rules are recurrent: no more than 4 CIM motors, only certain brands of 12V batteries, 120 lb weight limit, numerals on bumpers must be 4" high, etc. There is also a recurring "this is not battlebots" rule; we are never allowed to deliberately damage...

Who knows what I'm talking about!

Happy New year. I'm not going to stick around for the stroke of midnight, so Happy new year Newfoundland!

I'm all set with entropy; it's enthalpy that I still don't quite get (beyond it's definition, and how to calculate the change thereof). Enthalpy isn't taught in basic physics, so I haven't had the professional requirement of coming up with a dozen analogies to explain it.

I like in a "liberal" corner of a "liberal" state in the "liberal" northeast. I am a teacher in a public school. Christmas carols were playing on the intercom last week. Not "jingle bells" and "frosty the snowman," but "Have yourself a Merry little Christmas," "Drummer Boy," "Carol of the...