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Sorry, dudes, this is going to be a pretty boring post.The chick from black eyed peas' hat has been a big hit among the female students of my school. Like the one in this picture. These hats are stupid and should be removed.
There is writing on the mirror in my bathroom reads: "TODAY IS NOT GOING TO SUCK". "Not" is underlined. I put it there this morning. So far it has worked.
A guy in the computer fixing department has a hideous underbite. I hope he never finds out someone thought it was worth mentioning on their blog, but if he had it corrected, less people would have to look twice to see if he is retarded.
In the lunch room someone thought it would be a great idea to have karaoke during lunch, so of course we got a guy singing "I've got friends in low places". You could tell he thought it would be fun till about two bars after he started, and for the rest of the song he sang in about two notes, and a conspicuous absence of the intended amount of fun hung heavy in the air. The Somali girls next to me were studying biology so I listened in and learned nothing.
We are adjusting escapements at school, moving pallet stones hundredths of millimeters with special tools that you move pallet stones hundredths of millimeters with. What they've done to us so far: moved the stones in and out, moved the banking pins all over the place, moved the guard pin around, and screwed with the endshakes. Everything but taking off the roller and putting it on upside down or facing backwards. Which may happen, for all I know. The exam is next Thursday. Wednesday we have off, so I'm looking at Tuesday as a night to stay up late and eat too much ice cream.
The eight checks of the escapement, in case you're wondering, are
1) endshakes
2) vertical divisions
3)fork bisected by impluse pin at dead point, snug but moveable
4)horn clearance, 6 pos.
5)guard pin clearance, 4 pos.
6)the teeth of the escape wheel hit the locking surfaces of the pallet stones, not the impulse planes
7) the separation between locking points is even on both stones after let-off, at the other side's moment of drop
8) the run to banking is even on both sides and comprises the majority of total lock, and is less than guard pin clearance
other checks that come in terribly handy are 1) making sure the teeth are halfway across the impulse planes at the dead point and 2) letting the balance oscillate without the fork in place, to see if it's got a low enough amount of friction.
I learned what a moment of inertia is yesterday.
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