"It doesn't make any sense, and it sucks"

Those were Prof Keaton's opinion of the english language. This is the course he teaches. He came in to our MechE lecture today to give 'part 2' of the presentation that everyone got last semester in their other intro engineering course.
Speaking of amusing profs, Vogel and Brandon were both most entertaining today. Brandon just seemed so out of it, it was Friday, after all. Many secants were slain, and there was much rejoicing. So we had a quiz in physics today, but beforehand we went over some other stuff, and Vogel had some great lines:
[going through an equation, pointing out which terms we knew and which we would have to find] "two, I guess we know...or we could look it up"
And another, as we were doing one of his famous 'esimates': "four times thirty-two is a hundred"

Speaking of crazy math...
Since I turned in my first timecard today, I now owe the city of pittsburgh $52 - $12.88 (the value of my next paycheck, assuming I get minimum wage). Before I turned in my timecard, I owed Pittsburgh, PA $0, but now I owe them...$39.12, by my calculation. Yay for cities in financial crises. I doubt I'll get anything out of my next paycheck either. Now, of course I'll get $42 of it refunded at the end of the year (since I assume I'll be making less than $12k/yr) but, see, that's at the end of the year. I'm not even sure what year they're talking about. Fiscal? Calender? Neptunian??

Anyway....
Not much happening. Tim's off at some church retreat for the weekend, so I've got the room all to myself. Fun times.
I had my own personal movie night, courtesy of i2hub (which oddly isn't connecting at the moment). I watched Predator followed by The Fifth Element, which has a huge cast that I hadn't realized before. Biblo's in there, along with Snape, as well as Alice from Resident Evil, and, of course, Mr Willis (who's apparently working on Die Hard 4). Predator was cool. Not something watched really for the acting or anything, and the sound on my copy was pretty horrible, but it was entertaining nonetheless. The Fifth Element, however, is an awesome movie. As I recall it didn't make the splash it deserved back in '97. I'm looking on IMDB at what else came out in 1997 that might have eclipsed it....Air Force 1? Alien: Resurrection (I found that one highly disappointing). The first Austin Powers? Batman & Robin? Oh, here they are. Wow, lots of them.
Anyway, excellent movie. Great acting. I especially love the scenes where Dallas (Willis) is being 'interviewed' by Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker). The whole movie has such flavor and character. You can really sense the future they live in, as rediculous as it is. In an early scene, temperatures between "1,000,000 and -5000" are referred to. I hopefully need not point out that temperatures do not go below -500 (thats in F), at least not in any temperature scale that exists now. It's Bruce Willis and Luc Besson (the writer/director) parodying Bruce Willis/Sci-fi action movies. Incredibly overly gratutitous explosions. Sooo awesome. Good times around every corner. I really ought to get it on DVD. I've been told the soundtrack was recorded very well (by a professional sound guy, no less) and my .avi copy of it is sorely lacking in the sound dept, especially when the diva sings. Oh well, 'twas free, after all. So...go watch the movie, you won't be disappointed.
Currently I'm chatting online with the lovable nut who's unfortunately come down with a bit of a cold or something. Hopefully her recovery shall be swift.
What shall I do now? Who knows, sleep? Naw...perhaps I'll watch Animal Crackers.
Whatevs...toodles.