April 1st schedule

Friday 5-close (or 5:30 - close) i forget uh o
Saturday 5-9:30 or (5:30-9:30 hmmmm)

Wednesday (5-10)

I'll have to look up where I wrote my schedule down.

i'd like to note in my belt pictures i always pull up my shirt slightly to make sure the belt is seen and especially when my shirt doesnt quite match the belts. dont think i'm a hussy.

Belts from Spring Break

I said I would post these.

some

This purple one is awesome!






all the pictures

This was me yesterday. Look how cute even though I was sick.

Yes I was hiding a tissue behind my back.

i finally got it to uplaod

belts and more

belts

i put some of my belts in a box. rolled them up. they look nice but u can't see what each one is. i need a little bit of a deeper box to store the belts on their side. cuz i have to upll them out now to see which one it is. well some you can sort of tell which belt it is but you can't see all the colors.

Today i'm dressed all kinds of cute how the belt matches my shirts in more ways than the color. i had dave take a picture so i can show.

EVILNESS

e-mail at 7:40 am
Since many people have suffered due to the Fourbar program, I am extending the deadline to Wed 10 am.

I am hopeful that this amount of time will allow people to attend class today (Tuesday) since we will start cams and this info is importnat for the last test and I would like to see everyone there today!!

Steve


I DIDN'T GET THE PROGRAM TO WORK. I WORKED ON IT FOR HOURS. I DID NOT STUDY FOR MY OTHER TEST AT ALL. I FINALLY WENT TO SLEEP TO GET A FEW HOURS AND WAKE UP TO THAT E-MAIL. He's crazy thinking people actually didn't have done what they were going ot hand in by that time of the morning. I guess some people that didn't figure out the program still want to work on it more or something.

I'M SO MAD

i didn't get enough sleep. I'm so tired. I'm sicker today.

e-mails from Mechanisms Professor

This is what i have to deal with

11:44AM
It has been brought to my attention that there is an issue with problem 2 and therefore problem 3 !!

The issue is that when you successfully find the 4 bar for moving through the 3 positions, the resulting 4 bar goes through a branching condition !! This was my mistake in not checking the problem out completely before hand.

For problem 3a, if you enter the info generated the motion will not match the desired positions. This is OK and do not sweat it.

For problem 3b, if would be "nice" to vary point B1 to get the 4 bar to not branch, but you are only required to find 6 other attempts as per the test. If you do not find a "good" non branching mechanism in 6 tries, then just say so and move on!!

These issues are real life to the headaches of mechanisms designers. Not what I wanted, but not a waste of your time either!!! Now you know the hidden issues with what looks like straightforward solutions.

Sorry

Steve


1:47 PM
The Fourbar program is a real pain when dealing with negative numbers and link rotations!!!

To get around this issue, best to set the following types of values for initial conditions:

Min Theta 0 degrees
Max Theta 360 degrees
Delta Theta 5 degrees
Omega 2 rad/sec

This will rotate the linkage in the "wrong" direction, and it will not be limited to just the 3 desired positions, but at least it will move and not give silly error messages!!

All of the previous problems I had run in Fourbar were entirely "Positive" in the data so I had not seen this coming. I did email the book author to say "What Gives"

This should help

Steve

6:18PM
I have gotten an answer from the book author, and most of our issues are that we have an older error filled version!!

Even the McGraw Hill website that was supposed to have a better version that I downloaded today is still Rev 2.0.3. Norton gave me the "correct" results on his Rev 4.01 version.

So the short answer is that this problem makes the Fourbar problem have issues that are not going to be fixed before Tuesday 10 am!!

So give my past info a try or 2 , and then write up what you did find if anything, and them MOVE ON !!

Sorry about this!!

Steve

8:08 PM with an attached program
The book author just emailed me a version from last night for Fourbar that is supposed to be all OK.

If you can, please try this new version once to see if all is OK or not.

Thanks

Steve

i think i'd get a 60% right now on the test at the highest

death

if only i was warned that the reason the test is take-home is because it takes 20 hours or more to complete instead of 80 minute class, i would have started sooner. now this is not good. class is in 7.5 hours. i've done 2 of 5. i skipped 2.. nothing like we've ever done before. he changes how he asks it and the book says that it's too ahrd that way and dont do it that way. well he wants us to do it the hard way. we got 4 e-mails from him today saying how the one problem is impossible and he should have been more careful but to do our best and show what we did and all of our 6 tries. yes 6 tries to the same problem. the program he wants us to use is not very user friendly. it doesnt work right. we have the student edition which means we can't print but he has on the test for us to print our results.

this is definitely the worst class ever. it is my "design" concentration elective. I wish i could drop it. I could and have it show up on my transcript since it's past the drop deadline of March 12. I just dont know what to do. we dont learn a thing in class. The book is so vague. He doesnt give us homework solutions to see what we did wrong. We dont get our homeworks back before the test to know if we did it right or wrong the first time around. The class is early in the morning so i'm tired. He also doenst post his slides on-line so you cant ever refer to drawings.

O CRAP

so i just realized.
10 hours of homework left + less than 10 hours before class != good

o boy

I only have to be awake 19 hours tomorrow to get my work done (meetings, class, work, study)
o crap i forgot about eating. I also only alloted 4 hours for Mechanisms and it usually takes 6 or so.

update: it's 8:22PM and I still have 10 hours of the stuff i included above. But I've been awake more than 9 hours so now my times are off. But i did spend 30 min eating dinner that I didnt' allot.

booze?

I threw up today.  I had to make Timmy pull over to the side fo the road.

Me and timmy went to visit Mike today.  HIs apartment was a lot bigger than I expected.  I took PB's camera but the disk got full after one picture.  This is the first time I've ever experienced  a full disk.

i type this so i remember.

ok otnight john showed me his website. i do not know the link. i need to learn this. i also forget his sn. jesse and sheila went upstairs and liek an hour and a half later they did not return. they wer ecooking. pb tried to cut me off but sheila got me more booze. i started drinking at chrissy's but she wanted fto go to ski lodge. i had vodka and sprite w/ her.. double on the vodka an dhalf on the sprite. then i had a koolaid. i forget what's in that but i asked her before. then i had somethign that had mellon xsomethign and sour mix. then we left. i dont know how chirssy made that koolaid but she said there was a decent amount of booze in it. then i make my stronger cuz i dpont get drunk quick enough. then i drank vodka and pepsi. 100 proof absolut vodka. then i got another drink ..put over a hsot in the cup then found out my can of pepsi was almost empy. so my drink was 2/3 vodka. it was potent.
i'm leaving at 9:30 am to go to brooklyn. i'm attemping to drink water but i'm 1/30 of the way thorugh the bottle. i started rinkign it about 5 min before this post. i have to finish changing into my pjs sometime before sleep. i hope i remember. i called jcla while drunk ..well before jesse's room. then he put gravester on the phone too. he was sneaky and hopped in the shower before saying bye.
o and i had osmethign w/ amaretto. someone can tell me how much i had later. i was a quicker drinker than normal. my first drink was gone in less than half hour. u can tell by this water and if u konw me how i'm such a slow drinker.

i'm so shaky now. i ddn't get blurry vision at all.

goodnight

goodnight. i sure had fun tonight. 4 hours i'm leaving for mike's apartment. timmy only went idle 20 min ago. that probably isn't good.

i think it's water drinking time.

stuff

work was so slow tonight. i made 16 bucks.
last night wasnt' as fun as i expected. drinks cost too much.
my head hurts from my hair being pulled into a pony-tail.
I did do some cleaning and organizing today. It sure was fun. That's my favorite thing to do. Organizing not cleaning. I always love to just reorganize drawers. It's so fun.

stuff

Last night I could not fall asleep. It was like I was hopped up on caffeine, but i didn't have any in me. Then this morning I woke up before my alarm. Well the correct alarm anyway. So I woke up late. But not too late. I just didn't get lunch. Then I was soo wide awake in class it was crazy. I only got 4 hours of sleep. Now I've been busy all day. Before I went to the vendor show at the commons, i was getting all stressed out about not having enough time for things. THe vendor show had some good corn dogs. I ate three. I got a few little bags of doritos. Timmy got a lot. His roommate got 52. I'm at work study now. I have so much work to do.

work

Friday 5-9:30
Saturday 5:30-9:30

INSANE

well pat just got off aim to finish his homework but i'm still talking to jesse and sheila. this is insane.