Whiteboard of the Week – 15

Well this isn’t a whiteboard, more of a drawing, but certainly the most productive I’ve been all year in French class.

It’s called the WordDuck.

Apple Headphones Washing Machine Safe?

It seems to break this long period of silence with something so trivial, but it seemed blogworthy.

After forgetting to take the headphones out of my shirt pocket, I realized after the weekend that the shirt had gone through the wash cycle. Not sure if  it went through the dryer too, but it definitely went through the wash, and felt very very clean, but works just fine, distortion free! Not bad Apple, although I wish I could say that they last very long, they seem to withstand *certain* elements…

Things have been busy, as always. I have some photos to upload, but once again I’m stuck in this chicken-before-the-egg dillema of whether to just upload my pictures or optimize my photo management so that it’s easier to do… sigh…

Egg Experiments

This report is mostly for my lab partners, but I figured if I’m going through the trouble of documenting this process I might as well blog it.

Ok, so first experiments obtained mixed results. I basically piled 3 sponges, egg, and another sponge tied together with some elastics. First attempt was successful, second not so much, and the throw test wasn’t even attempted.

Next I thought it would be important to increase distance (time) of impact and added some more cloths, and while this increased success, there were still instabilities and the wall test was an epic failure. (I have video of all this but since it was a failure it’s really not that interesting.)

So after some dinner I started thinking about waterbottles and containers absorbing the shock and isolating that shock from the egg using the sponges. Hence, Prototype 3. Prototype 3A utilized a plastic-wrapped egg. (It took me a few broken eggs to realize that mess-reduction is an unlisted requirement!) Prototype 3B photos have been attached. Drop tests sounded bad but really turned out quite well. The egg was in good condition, and a good throw at the side of my house survived well, even after a good hit on a picnic table and roll in the snow. The key is simply to keep the sponges moist otherwise it will undoubtedly fail.

Exploding with Awesomeness!

[old] When something is so awesome that it just makes you feel like totally exploding, you explode with awesomeness.

Whiteboard of the Week – 14

Not really a whiteboard, but exam time does offer some doodling opportunities, so this will be 14.

Whiteboard of the Week – 13

I took a bit of a break for the Holidays, but we’re back this week. On the left is “One in land and one box’d.” Kevin and I were planning on building an electric snow mobile and this came up in the conversation. Those are two GT, an obedient one and one trying to run away, and getting box’d.

To the right is a flow chart for Janine.

EDIT: Oh, and that sticky there says “Fix Me!” because the little ledge for the markers and eraser has been falling off since I got it. I needed a glue gun but Laura’s been going craft crazy and has no glue left. 🙁

Whiteboard of the Week – 12

Well Christmas holidays are finally here! Thank goodness, I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. In accordance with the law of inversion, this weeks’ whiteboard doesn’t actually have any of my own drawings on it. The face is mine, but it was a lot cuter before my sister attacked it. She felt the need to draw in mirror, so I offer the flipped version below for the visually challenged. Basically it’s just a montage celebrating me from what I can tell…:D   

jole Logo Lookalike – Canada Post

 

In attempting to look classy while writing “Joy ” in French, Canada Post ended up infringing on jole.ca logo territory. Good thing I’m not registered!

Whiteboard of the Week – 11

 

Here’s a posted-dated Whiteboard from the 13th, demonstrating Kate the snowblower and the magic triangle thing from math. Yeah.

Whiteboard of the Week – 10

 

So I’m hoping you can identify my drawings from other people’s by now. The printing party and wetting house radio is of course mine, and the rest are my sister’s. There was also this hideous blingy smile, but I was so disgusted seeing it this morning that I had to erase it. Sorry Laura.

My favorite of Laura’s is the guy creeping out from the frame eating a cupcake off the house. Awesome.

Printing party is a reference to Kevin’s “My 5Si is going to have a party printing this document”, referring to his epic typefest, writing up all of Grease: School Version…just for convenient access I guess. The wetting house is what you get when you take the “s” of your White-Westinghouse Radio. A radio that showers your house.

Stay tuned for a wonderful whiteboard animation of “La Neige en Deuil” by Henri Troyat.