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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:31:09 GMT

So this afternoon was my surgery. I survived. I'm on crutches for a month. He had to untwist it, sew it back together, and he had to clean up some torn cartilage. It's all good though.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:11:02 GMT

Going on a four day retreat called Outbreak of Faith. I'll be back Monday night. I'm actually helping lead the retreat. I'm God in all the skits. So basically I'm God this weekend. Anyway. That's where I am.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:48:36 GMT

So yesterday was our block party on my street. It was pretty cool. I started talking to a few of the neighbors. Then after about 30 minutes I was tired of adults so I hung out with the other kids. I was outside laying in the middle of the street with Carlie and Korie till midnight. They found out how to tickle me and they became evil. Then they became fascinated with my man boobs. I mean as if they don't have boobs either. Anyway. So this week is exams and final preparations for Outbreak of Faith. There is a light saber in my backpack for that. Oh and I'm God in both skits that YCET is doing on Outbreak. It'll be a blast. So tomorrow is Intro to Government and Latin2 exam. I studied for about an hour tops for bother of them. Today I watched the next karate kid. That's a pretty good movie. Anyway. I'm really happy that I only have two more days of school. 5 hours. It'll be a glorious day when I am half way through my highschool career. Oh I'm having my surgery June 14. Feel free to come visit me whenever you want after that. Let me know if you need my address to find my house. I will be laid up anywhere from a week to four weeks. I won't know how long until I wake up. It should be interesting. That's enough for know kids. I'll talk to you later.

Ben

Monday, May 29, 2006

Mon, 29 May 2006 19:06:27 GMT

So we only have 7 days of school left. 3 of those are exam days. Then I have Outbreak of Faith to lead from June 9-12. Then on the 14th I'll have my knee surgery which will lay me up for a while. It should be a fun summer.

Goodbye.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:42:48 GMT

So I figured I'd update in my freetime this week. Les Miserables is finally coming together. I was out on stage finally this week and wow the barricades look amazing. Not to mention the other set pieces. When my ride came to take me home I was in the barricades vacuuming. I think you can get lost or hurt in the barricades. I got two mystery cuts on my middle finger. I noticed them walking out to Vetter's car. Exams went pretty good. For the next two weeks you probably won't speak a word to me unless you are on the internet late enough for me to get home from shcool and finish all my homework. We are scheduled to get out at 10:30 all next week. I don't see us getting out till 11. If this comes together it'll be a fricken miracle and it will be fricken amazing. I can't wait to see how it turns out. Tonight is my last night before exhaustion sets in and I sleep every sparing moment. We'll see.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:29:57 GMT

Mortals and Saints is now over. I'm gonna miss my yellow makeup and spats. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted, and we didn't kill any patrons with the couch. We started the turntable yesterday. We have a fourth of the turn table layed out on stage and we are just routing the curved pieces. I got to ride the orchestra pit. Then we were trapped down there because Tom was off doing something else and we aren't allowed to operate the orch pit. Oh well. We just had an orgy down in the pit. We've created a lot of saw dust and its only the second accual day of Les Mis.

Peace Out

Friday, January 20, 2006

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:19:09 GMT

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
NO that wasn't me farting it was an exhale from one of the easiest exam weeks ever. Probably only studied for about an hour combined. Yea I was a lazy person on exam week. I don't know how I manage the good grades. So far what's been updated on edline I got a 94 on my Algebra 2 exam and a 97 on my geometry exam. Yea pretty fricken sweet I know. Well yea I no longer have a girl friend. It's cool though it was amutual breakup and we are still friends.

Well Koehlke walked into the cafeteria and said he was working with Tom on the I-beam for the play. So I went and helped. I don't see how its gonna be able to hold all that weight. Oh well, I'm not the one sitting on it.

I think I've said everything I've wanted to say. Goodbye

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:09:13 GMT

So it's been a while. What can I say I've been busy. First off I now have a girlfriend. Second of all Mortal Saints has taken over my life. We've had alot of YCET meetings. But finally it is exam week. Nothing is going on this week. A rather relaxing week I'd say. I can wait for Saturday and Sunday because of stage crew. It's so demanding but so worth it. Oh yea tomorrow I have three exams. You can tell I'm studying very hard for them.

Peace out,
Ben

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:40:03 GMT

Happy New Year!

WhooHoo

Once again I'm a loser and am sitting at home though I'm going over a friends house tonight.

Oh well. Hope you guys had fun at least

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:00:16 GMT

A Scientist's View of Christmas

There are approximately 2 billion children under 18 in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces Santa's workload for Christmas to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau).

At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh, and get on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which of course we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total strip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second - 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying more than 500,000 tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them -- Santa would need 360,000 reindeer! This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating a deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized with 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 miles per second in 0.001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,313,000 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

MERRY CHRISTMAS