Best Oralist

Get your mind out of the gutter! A friend of mine (who shall remain nameless in the tradition of not naming people unless I have good reason to believe they read my blog) is at a moot court competition (fake appeals court cases argued in front of a panel of judges / scorers) and told me that the other person on the argument team won best oralist for the first round. Could they not come up with a better name for that honor? I am convinced someone sat around trying to make it sound as dirty as possible while being technically correct. I want that job.

Speaking of naming things, I've been trying to decide on a good name for my missile project. Lee is using "The Doombringer" (it's from Futurama), which is an apt description of any [working] missile, I suppose. I am thinking of calling mine the Archimedes Launch System for the Small Diameter Bomb (ALSFTSDB), but it's far from decided. Other options I've considered are Ballista, Wyld Stallyn, Wraith, Death Glider, The Milfred, and Batleth. All are references to my inherent geekiness, with The Milfred being the only one that you won't find with a little research. Freshman year in our first semester design class, out midterm project was to design a device to aid the handicapped or elderly in opening a jar. Groups were assigned by the professor, and included in mine were students who spent their time after the first semester across campus in the business department. Nate may have been in that group, too, but I'm not sure now. Anyway, while I was busy with designs, trade studies, and writing the report, they were envisioning the person for whom I was designing this. The character, Milfred, was horribly disfigured and, I believe, quite unintelligent. (It kept them busy and out of my way, they could have made him from Ceti Alpha V for all I cared.) The report we produced was named Milfred's Cure, and that drew criticism from Doc Brown (the professor). So I always reference Milfred when thinking about off-the-wall ideas. My design for that project was awesome, though.

We think we've got Gloyer understanding that we need something on paper for our project now. He says we'll have it by Monday. On the one hand, him giving me a list of things to address gives him a list of things to take off for if I don't address them. On the other, if he was going to take off for them anyway, I need the list to work towards. And no more surprises.

After class and lunch today, I have been completely unproductive. I need to run a ton of cases through my trajectory program just to have the data, but I didn't feel like doing it tonight. So I watched downloaded TV shows. Now, I'm going to bed. More tomorrow.