Raising Awareness

I got a facebook message today about a guy riding his bicycle from somewhere to someplace to "raise awareness for areas affected by Hurrican Katrina." There was a Hurricane Katrina? It caused damage? Why, pray tell, was I unaware of this calamity? Did you, my fine readers, know about this? OF COURSE YOU DID! IT'S ALL THE CABLE NETWORKS TALKED ABOUT FOR A YEAR!. Is there anyone in America who didn't know that New Orleans was flooded and much of coastal Mississippi was blown away? NO, THERE ISN'T. These people still need help, sure. And a bike ride or something is as good a way to raise money as any, but you have to use it to raise MONEY. They can't eat awareness. They can't buy blankets with awareness. "Excuse me, sir, I'm hungry and my house is now that pile of kindling, could you spare some awareness? I won't use it to buy drugs or alcohol. Maybe just enough to keep me warm this winter?" Morons.

Classes are mostly good. Math is coming around, with some fireworks. Inviscid is getting into some actual fluid dynamics. Heat Transfer is starting to teach us about actual heat transfer problems, and evil, evil solutions. Technical Writing is awful, a waste of time and oxygen, and just stupid. We had some "ethical" questions to discuss as a group tonight. Every single one of these "gray areas of ethics" were met with a resounding, one-sided opinion that they were stupid questions and not actually moral or ethical issues. Then, we had a group ethics project about some made-up company wanting to limit employees' access to CompuServe. Yes, CompuServe. I don't think that has existed for a decade. And what is a digitizer? Apparently, the employees were abusing the company's digitizer. And the ethics, while possibly appropriate a decade ago before companies actually monitored computer usage and emails as a standard practice, is moot now because they do, and we accept it.

It's supposed to be 48 here tonight. Yippee.

What does Qximetry mean? Anyone? More tomorrow.