No project here, just some fun things I have been thinking about. The first one comes from Georgia Tech Craig, who sent me this website:<\/p>\n
Only at Tech<\/a><\/p>\n Reminds me of a lot of things that I do and kind of makes me want to be a student at Georgia Tech. Which happens a lot more than I think people realize. After all, Clemson is just Georgia Tech lite, with women. Any way, this site reminded me of some things that I have done that were “only at tech” moments:<\/p>\n My roommate Craig (not from Georgia Tech) and I used to lift weights fairly regularly. He’s a bigger guy than me even though I’m about a foot taller than he is, and he can bench press slightly less than double what I can. So one night I spent the evening calculating our power-to-weight ratios to make myself feel a little better about this. Since I’m about 30 pounds lighter AND my arms are longer so I do more work since I lift the weights farther, I figured this would work out in my favor. Craig’s was 8 watts per kilogram and mine was 5.5 watts per kilogram, which I guess is good because it’s more than half of Craig’s.<\/p>\n The other good one was dealing with the doors in Riggs Hall, Clemson’s electrical engineering building. They all have signs that say “FIRE DOOR. DO NOT IMPEDE.” So I thought a good idea would be to spend an entire semiconductor physics class deriving the minimum required impedance<\/a> of the doors.<\/p>\n And, not to go into too much detail, but I also just had a 20-minute conversation with a physics professor about deriving mathematically how much more attractive redheaded girls are than non-redheaded girls. We had this conversation in the library and got some fairly odd looks, but we now have objective truth backing up something normally subjective! So that’s a bonus. I love science.<\/p>\n Any way, the next project is going to involve wiring my slow cooker to the internet, so stay tuned! It’s coming along nicely so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No project here, just some fun things I have been thinking about. The first one comes from Georgia Tech Craig, who sent me this website: Only at Tech Reminds me of a lot of things that I do and kind of makes me want to be a student at Georgia Tech. Which happens a lot … <\/p>\n