Posted in school, travel, tagged FTC, machinery on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It appears that team 420, and I with it, are going to the FIRST nationals! So many teams won first place at multiple competitions that they had a drawing for lowly teams like ours to come as filler. However, the drawing took place eight days before they told us. FIRST also slapped us with a humongous entrance fee in proportion to the notice they gave us.
Despite this all, I’m rather happy to go.
Posted in school, tagged FTC on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Building our robot goes reasonably well, but it is strange how something so calculated and mulled over could be so hard to gauge the success of.
Our robot is basically designed to pick up rings and slide them over a stick. That would not seem so hard. It is. We finally got an arm worked up [...]
Posted in life on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently, my life has been looking rather average to me, but only when the expression is pondered over, do you realize how unusual average is.
There is no such thing as average. The expression “average” can refer to an opinion between two extremes, but not necessarily one that exists.
So it is that I find life “interesting.”
My [...]
Posted in life on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This past week I have been semi-sick and extremely unproductive. I suppose beginning a fitness plan is productive, but the gain was canceled by the time I spent idle and inexplicably sore.
My main concern at present is how I am going to use my still hoarse voice to say any lines during a short Christmas [...]
Posted in school, tagged FTC, machinery on November 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To my complete and utter happiness, I am now developing ideas for a
robot. Transferring them to an actual metal structure, is sadly a much
different process.
Our first task was brainstorming. Once the rush of ideas had stampeded
past, there was not much left to do, so we wanted to build. Our mentor
(in all his wisdom and machine [...]
Posted in life, tagged machinery on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
For my birthday a few weeks ago I got some cookbooks. As might be expected, the promise of cookies made me very happy. However, to get the cookies, I had to actually make them first, and to make the cookies, I had to go shopping for ingredients. That wasn’t a problem; I like Whole Foods. [...]
Posted in Scouts, travel, tagged Venturing on October 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
*Due to procrastination and laziness, this post went unwritten for over a week. We now give it to you not yet in progress.*
Philmont was nothing less than amazing. The reason I put off talking about it for so long is, (a) my inability to describe it with words other than, “It was good.” and, (b)The [...]
Posted in Scouts, life, travel, tagged God, Venturing on September 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
With less than 24 hours before departure, I have much to worry over. However, I am mostly packed, so I can put it off awhile. Instead, I have reflections. Some of the stuff that has put us on this trip is just providential.
Firstly, our Venturing crew wanted to go to a camp sponsored by the [...]
Posted in life, rant, tagged art, cleaning on September 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Having been sick in the last week, I look terrible; however, my room is pretty and with that I am happy. We have also been cleaning out our storage area and with much joy, I have received some of my mother’s old clothing which was buried there. I guess it should tell me something that [...]
Posted in life, tagged movies, music, VEX on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Things have been rather interesting lately. For one thing, I’m on a First Vex robotics team finally. And in a surprise turn of events, Christina will also be on the team. She came along to watch and was lured in by the promise of taking things apart and making towers from marshmellows and toothpicks [...]
