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If you are what you eat, does that make me cheap, fast, and easy?
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If you are what you eat, does that make me cheap, fast, and easy?
Heres a game thats hits close to home. In fact it is just like real life. (It almost got me in trouble because of the music! Gr... stupid computer making noise during class) The object is to kill the popups... but then, after a while, the computer does just like real life... well you'll see. Have fun.
What was/is your favorite class in school?
Mines Theater Production. It rocks.
So here I am. Its 6th block. I'm bored and in the Library. So I decided to blog. I actually like the assignment we're working on. I'm in my Theater Production class and our final project is to do all the technical work and designs for a show of our choice. I chose the movie (which I labored to adapt to stage) 10 Things I Hate About You. I really have been enjoying working on it, but I needed a break so I'm blogging-ish.
What I really want is to go home. I'm not feeling well... not at all. Last night I puked-not a fun experience- and then in English I almost puked again -once again, not fun. In english we were discussing the book Things Fall Apart and some one brought up the character Mr. Brown, and English Missionary, and all I could think of was "Mr. Brown can Moo, can you?" And then I was joking with another friend who knows about Mu.Nu, and she started saying "Mr Brown can Moo" and I quickly added "NU!" before she finished it with "Can You". We giggled.
Yeah can you tell I'm bored?
This is going to be a new segment, hopefully daily. But daily is a kind of iffy thing with me. Heh. But anyway, pretty much I'll answer a random science question. I'll answer one that someone’s emailed me (mookie -at- mookieriffic.mu.nu) or I'll grab one of my "Handy Answer Science Books" and pick a random page and question. If its an Emailed question, you might want to take the answer with a grain of salt. But with out further ado:
Crystal wine glasses can shatter when resonating, but can they make music?
If the energy of a resonant standing wave is large enough, a crystal wineglass can shatter quite easily, but when the amplitude is smaller, the wineglass can produce a sound instead. Take, for example, a person rubbing his finger around the moist lip of a crystal wineglass. The glass seems to sing or hum. The humming is caused by the work the finger does on the glass: the rubbing of the glass causes it to achieve a standing wave pattern and perhaps resonate. The resonating molecules in the glass generate enough energy to vibrate the surrounding air and create a steady humming sound.
The frequency of the sound can be adjusted the same way that the frequency in an organ pipe can be adjusted--by changing the height of the air column, or in the case of the wine glass, by adding to taking away some of the liquid inside the glass.
A twist on the original.
1) Whats your favorite fruit? Raw Broccoli 2) Did you/Do you plan to go to college? Yeah 3) Where at? I like VA Tech and Marrymount Mahanhatten