too much foccee
finding myself tired but excited about where this semester is going. classes are challenging enough. work is good. work is so good right now. I and a friend of mine go out in a city car and measure the cracks in the roads. old men who have nothing to do come up to us and ask us what we are doing. we tell them it is a city-wide survey of the conditions of residential streets in Long beach. Noah, my partner, usually includes that some higher up will decide which streets need to be fixed. I usually just say that we are counting the cracks in the road. we usually get some response along the lines of "what do you need to do that for? cant you see this street is bad/good just from looking at it? you should look at this sidewalk. it's terrible!"
I havent yet, tried explaining that by measuring the current types and levels of distresses, we are better able to predict the future discentigration of the pavement and make educated decisions on which streets should be repaired. it really isnt worth it.
These days I find myself so obsorbed in Engineering classes that I hardly notice there is any other form of study besides calculation and design. I dont read. I dont write. I dont dream.
we signed up for netflix. our first 2 movie orders were "attack of the killer Tomatoes" and "SNL: the first 5 seasons" I dont recoment "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" unless you are REALLY INTO bad-cheezy-wierd movies(which I am). I thought everyone knew about this movie, but not everyone- actually no one that I have mentioned it to recently has been even remotely familiar with it. not even tha cartoon rings a bell. remember? it came on right after Gost busters. the movie follows some sort of thin plot line involving man eating tomatoes, government consperacy, and a nosey reporter girl0. the quote from Jaws is obvious. my favorite scene is a scene where two government agents are in a car in the desert and the tomatoes are attacking, flinging themselves at the windshield and the men are trapped in their vehicle with the windshield wipers on full blast. But it was a close match with the scene where one of the government agents desguises himself as a tomatoe while sitting around the fire at the tomatoes' camp , by mistake, asks if someone could pass the ketchup. it is Such a bad movie! you can fast forward through most of the scenes without missing anything.
I havent yet, tried explaining that by measuring the current types and levels of distresses, we are better able to predict the future discentigration of the pavement and make educated decisions on which streets should be repaired. it really isnt worth it.
These days I find myself so obsorbed in Engineering classes that I hardly notice there is any other form of study besides calculation and design. I dont read. I dont write. I dont dream.
we signed up for netflix. our first 2 movie orders were "attack of the killer Tomatoes" and "SNL: the first 5 seasons" I dont recoment "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" unless you are REALLY INTO bad-cheezy-wierd movies(which I am). I thought everyone knew about this movie, but not everyone- actually no one that I have mentioned it to recently has been even remotely familiar with it. not even tha cartoon rings a bell. remember? it came on right after Gost busters. the movie follows some sort of thin plot line involving man eating tomatoes, government consperacy, and a nosey reporter girl0. the quote from Jaws is obvious. my favorite scene is a scene where two government agents are in a car in the desert and the tomatoes are attacking, flinging themselves at the windshield and the men are trapped in their vehicle with the windshield wipers on full blast. But it was a close match with the scene where one of the government agents desguises himself as a tomatoe while sitting around the fire at the tomatoes' camp , by mistake, asks if someone could pass the ketchup. it is Such a bad movie! you can fast forward through most of the scenes without missing anything.