The Mongoose: Nature's Assassin

I finally broke into my DVD of the first season of Robot Chicken, which I've had for months. I'd seen most of the episodes, but there were a few I hadn't seen, and there are some deleted scenes which I haven't gotten to yet. One of the episodes I hadn't seen had a sketch where a mongoose killed president Kennedy in Dallas, hence nature's assassin. The show is inappropriate for those of any age, but it's hilarious. According to Sarah Michelle Gellar (providing her own voice for the sketch), the eighth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was going to begin with Chucky hiding from the police in a lettuce patch when he's attacked and killed by lettuce patch kids, who need souls in order to . . . well, it was the premise that sold it, not the actual plot. The show is stop-motion animation (Nightmare Before Christmas is another example), created by Seth Green, so he gets some of his friends to do the voices. I have recognized / seen credited Tracy Morgan (SNL), Gellar, Mila Kunis (70's Show, Family Guy), and Scarlett Johansson (Eight Legged Freaks), among many others.

I haven't really done much that I can mention in the last couple of days besides class. Heat Transfer is completely worthless. I'm not learning anything; I'm just watching him derive things all class, then you get to the answer, and, look, it's what I learned in undergraduate. Part of this class is how we get to the solution, I guess, but the book doesn't include the derivation and Antar is getting as bad as Brother John was at missing a sign or not carrying terms along, then having them reappear 4 boards later. And, it's right after lucnh, the worst possible time to have a class.

Tactical Missile mid-design evaluation in the morning. I'm in a pretty good place, a little farther than everyone I talk to regularly, but not so much farther as to make it seem that my friends aren't putting their full effort into it. I do have pretty pictures, though. It's not the technical that sells a design, anyone can get to that, it's the pictures and the name. More tomorrow.