Haha, just kidding. Seriously, though – Ricardo sent me this link to an online etymology dictionary. I haven’t had a chance to look at it as in depth as I’d like, but I hope to over the next week or so. Looks like it could be a really useful resource. Gosh, I turn out more like my dad every day…
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce, Socialite
From An Introduction to the Theory of Traveling Waves, by Erwin Weber:
Notice that there is a star in front of the numbers for the above equations. Equations thus identified in the remainder of the text are to be forgotten. The equations are unimportant and any student who commits them to memory deserves to spend his entire electrical engineering career grabbing the hot end of a soldering iron. These equations may be useful in impressing your friends – those that don’t know any better – but other than this, they serve no useful purpose.
I am almost done transferring all of the content from the old tylerbutler.com site to the new format. There are still some sections that I am working on, but it should be done pretty soon. As you can see, the new stuff is now at the root of the site. The old site is still visible at http://www.tylerbutler.com/oldsite.
As I was walking home for my lunch break today, I noticed a car that had broken down in at a stop light, slowing traffic down and bringing out the worst in many Chicago drivers that happened to be stuck behind the car. As I walked by, a fire truck passed through the intersection, pulled over, and three firemen and a paramedic got out and helped the man push his car out of the intersection.
No one called the fire department – they were just on their way back to a station, saw someone in need, and helped him. They didn’t have to. No one would have thought anything of it if they had just driven on by, but they didn’t. It’s nice to see that people still help each other out. Is it possible I’m just surrounded by the only self-centered, egotistical people in the entire world here at Illinois Tech? Nah, I’m sure they’re everywhere, but thankfully, so are fire fighters.