Chocolate Chip Cookies

Are quite tasty. I made some tonight. For some reason, mine turn out thinner than they really should. I either spill too much flour (a distinct possibility), or the recipe isn't meant to be followed. The result is that the cookie spreads during baking and isn't quite as moist. Still, they are yummy. Apologies to Lee since I'd talked about making them earlier in the week, but just never got around to it, and he's back in Memphis and won't be back before the cookies are devoured. (or maybe that was the plan)

Another Tactical Missile class, more corrections by the Flandro. Today, we were starting the process of estimating mass based on trajectory requirements, and a possible equation to use is the famous rocket equation. Gloyer explained sort of how to use it and was explaining that it is for a perfect-case scenario (dragless + gravityless), so corrections are added in to account for the "losses" arising from reality. The Flandro didn't even let him finish explaining the drag loss term before saying that the rocket equation was so much of a bad estimate that including the losses was essentially a waste of time. The rocket equation is fine for back-of-the-envelope work, but once you start including real effects, you might as well go to a more advanced model rather than trying to use the rocket equation. Gloyer tried to defend himself, but really, it was a wasted effort. We also talked about how to include thrust and variable mass in our trajectory code, though neither can be considered all that difficult for the case we considered.

I keep wanting today to be Friday so that I don't have to go to class tomorrow. It hasn't happened yet. As Lee has become fond of saying for the past few days, "it stinks, and I don't like it."

Additional thanks today to: Lee, Heather, Brent, David, Jennifer, KC, Will, Amy, Russ, Ben, Marly, Matt, Nick, Matt, Sheena, and Garrett for the birthday wishes. I haven't quite gotten around to returning last year's birthday wishes on Facebook walls, so it may be a while on this year's, too, but I do appreciate them. If I've missed anybody (other than family, which I left off this list), thanks to you, too. But not as much, since you obviously aren't very memorable.

Tuesday does not equal Thursday. Especially since I want my weekend between now and then. More tomorrow.