beware of what is lurking in the shadows, for it is as deadly as it may seem..

beware of what is lurking in the shadows, for it is as deadly as it may seem..
the unfinished discourse

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

it's different from monday

did soldering, stripping and drilling yesterday at DSO..basically we were handling with circuits (frisbee) and some electronic parts with the intention of deriving data out of an experiment. All these were done in the experiment room or something which I have forgotten and honestly, it was quite messy, not that things were strewn around in an unfashion manner but because there was quite a bunch of never-seen-before tools (which up till this point of time I have no idea what they were.)Basically, we were supposed to mount the ornithopters (each time with a wing of a particular shape and aspect ratio) on a test rig using certain connectors. The circuit(with the accelerometer) should have been pre-attached to the bird in the right orientation such that the x/y-component of acceleration would be measured effectively. What should also be taken into account is the tail deflection and pitching angle of the bird as well as the angle the arm of the rig makes with the ground when the bird is being given a certain amount of throttle using a remote control. Indeed many things would require stringent control lest the accuracy of the experiment would be compromised; but nonetheless this is only a simple experiment and we have only one more week to obtain our results and evaluation-2 days a week at the temasek labs/dso labs do suffice much less staying at home making the wing/inputing datas using softwares. Indeed, science has seen continuous supplantation in this world of unfelt promises. Well, that aside, we had Botak Jones near the news centre yesterday after the attachment and honestly I felt the obvious, that they are giving you more than what you deserve or require in exchange for what you would expect less. It's true that the fries are good, with all the cheddar powder peppered on it but it is seriously overserved I guess. Likewise, or not, the cajun chicken was grilled to near perfection but the portion is somewhat incomparable to what you see in typical western foodstalls. The pizza we had was ostensibly satisfying due to the generous mozorella cheese topping that was rather tentalizing I suppose. So much for this predilection to the western's platter. Time is tight now and it is oblivious as to how things will turn out in days to come, after all what's there to look forward to in the subsequent days? Perhaps time will tell. Here's a quote by Max Frisch:

'Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it'

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