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One month to go 'til Morocco

Posted by shiite on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, In : morocco 

Booyakasha.

One month/four weeks/28 days...

No matter how you slice or dice it, Morocco is closing in on the horizon.

It's so close.

I can smell it. 

Taste it. 

(Don't tell anyone: this may be partially [or quite possibly fully] on account of my eating this and washing my hair daily with this. Shhhh.)

 
...Yet another email from Peace Corps Morocco today. Things seem to be full steam ahead. Oy vey!
  
 
 

With but one month left to go, there's still lots of hard work to do, but I've also accomplished qui...

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Math equations, apathy, and a tribute to two agents of change

Posted by shiite on Monday, January 24, 2011, In : musings 

“The status quo sucks.”George Carlin

// begin pseudo-mechanics and mathematics lesson 

In classical mechanics, one learns Newton’s First Law of Motion

“Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.” 

As a consequence:

•    An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless an unbalanced force acts upon it
•    An object that is in motion will not change its vel...
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