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Would you like some ice?
Hey again...
Second day in a row i'm updating this blog.. guess it's one of those sudden outbursts things... well, if you read the title, you'd be wondering what i'm talking about.. In all honesty, i have no idea.. it' just seemed like a fun title.. and no, the ice doesn't refer to the drug ice (amphetamines? is that how u spell it? help me out here...), but just regular ice.. as in, 'can i have a cup of ice' ice..
Ok, that was some useless banter.. well.. nothing much to say.. went to school today for maths lessons. And i did the work beforehand! Cue*Applause*... yup... amazing.. but i guess i owe it all to benjamin's room.. cos went there yesterday.. then sort of got in the studying mood... haha.. Anyways, got up this morning and left the house at roughly 655.. and the damned rain starting getting heavier the moment i stepped out of the house.. Curses!!! anyway... Got to the station, took to tampines, met jy... then we went to kallang to eat prata. and the ICE (there's that word again...) Milo was too sweet.. man, i'd overwork my insulin-producing kidney if i keep drink sweet ICE (haha.. the recurring object!) Milo..
Got to school and went straight to the band room to get some air con. and found out the band was at the AVT being drilled for the late for indoor incident thing. Sad sad... borrowed brenda's eupho to play a little while.. and only me, jy, cc, jien, and qp were in the band room... and just-see (jessie?) too.. although she was like hiding in the workroom.. what a Shy creature.. hmm..
Qin peng's gonna play memory on saturday. that's cool.. then i was asking him to do the sliding pitches thing.. then he tried and kept shaking his head to create the (it's not a sound effect to be put in words, but i'll try...) tiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu effect (didn't work, did it?).. thought it was quite funny. But then we didn't laugh. So i guess it isn't very funny. Crap.
Went for maths lesson after that! and proudly showed my completed work!! haha... man, i'm just too hardworking.. well.. relaxing abit now as i update this.. and sipping on some ice tea. Man, that sounds like those Dignified englishmen who sit around all day and sip tea and have crumpets. But i dun even know what a crumpet is.. hmmm... maybe it's like a scone. haha... whatever..
Found a list of things to do if you're bored.. here's the top 50:
1 Sharpen your teeth
2 Clean and polish your belly button
3 Water your dog(or cat)...see if he grows
4 Call a fat ah lian 'fat ah lian'
5 Wash a tree
6 Watch a car rust
7 Boil ice cream
8 Run around in squares
9 Learn Greek
10 Translate a book to greek
11 Make a decision, then change your mind
12 Change it back
13 Calmly have a nervous breakdown
14 See how long you can stay awake
15 See how long you can stay asleep
16 Stand on your head
17 Stand on someone else's head
18 Make someone else stand on their head
19 Make someone else stand on your head
20 Learn to type...with your toes
21 Rotate your carpet
22 Take a picture...
23 ...now put it back
24 Be blue
25 Be red
26 But not orange
27 Go to a funeral and tell jokes about dead people
28 Go to a drink's stall and stab a coke can with a sharpened carrot..
29 ...then tell the owner that 'Pepsi' made u do it
30 Shoot a fire hydrant
31 Then apologize to it
32 Annoy yourself
33 Get mad at yourself
34 Stop speaking to yourself
35 Go to a crowded restaurant, duck under a table and shout 'The wombats are coming!'
36 Ask stupid questions
37 Tie your shoelaces together
38 Then trip and fall when u try to walk
39 Memorize the dictionary
40 Throw marshmallows against the wall
41 Challenge your neighbour to a duel
42 Challenge yourself to a duel
43 Attack innocent bunnies
44 Declare war
45 Recopy the Bible substituting your name for God
46 Go to a cemetary and verbally abuse dead people
47 Go to McDonald's and pretend you can't speak English
48 Learn to type...with your toes again.
49 Watch the sun...see if it moves.
50 Get a job so you won't have to waste time doing these stupid things!
hmmm... i think that's useful for those who really have nothing better to do.. i feel like eating a lollipop now.. dunno why also. hmmm... lollipop syndrome? well... i got the Raisen in Onimusha 3!!! It's damn cool.. some sort of thunder spear! oh no.. i think i sound like some sort of computer nerd. hmmm.. but i'm not. and yes dun argue with me.
oh yeah, i had a free lunch today. Man, i'm a Cheapo.
And the world is round, not flat.
And i guess i'm really bored now.
But i'm not gonna go do those stupid stuff i spent half an hour listing out.
But i'm really bored now.
And i already played Onimusha today.
And my new set of 700 free messages starts tmr.
Which is good.
In case you were wondering.
I'm not a sentence per paragraph person.
Just that it's easier to bring attention to the subject of the paragraph this way.
And i'm not making much sense now.
And i shall talk about particle accelarators now.
Particle accelerators are devices producing beams of energetic ions and electrons which are employed for many different purposes, one being ultra-precision microscopy. As is well known objects with dimensions down to the size of a living cell are investigated by optical microscopes and those down to atomic dimensions by electron microscopes. The object details that can be seen (resolved) are given by the wavelength of the irradiation. To penetrate the interiors of atoms and molecules, it is necessary to use radiation of a wavelength much smaller than atomic dimensions. Nucleons (protons and neutrons) inside atomic nuclei have a size of around 10-15 meters and are separated by distances of the same order of magnitude. The electrons orbiting atomic nuclei as well as the quarks inside nucleons have a size, if any, smaller than 10-18 meters; they appear point-like.
Probing particles such as electrons and protons provided by particle accelerators are required for studies of atomic constituents. The associated de Broglie wavelength of a probing particle rather than the "macroscopic" wavelength defines the minimum object size that can be resolved. The de Broglie wavelength is inversely proportional to the particle momentum. For example if an electron is required to have a de Broglie wavelength comparable to the size of the nucleon, it must have a kinetic energy of 1,200 MeV (for an electron energy above 10 MeV, kinetic energy is proportional to momentum). This energy is several thousands times higher than the typical energy of electrons used in electron microscopes. The unit MeV, Million electron Volt, denotes the kinetic energy which a particle of unit charge acquires after passage in a voltage drop of one million volt.
Besides being required for ultra-precision subatomic microscopy, particles from accelerators colliding with target particles may lead to the creation of new particles, which acquire their mass from the collision energy according to the formula E=mc2. It is thus by conversion to mass of excess kinetic energy in a collision that particles, antiparticles and exotic nuclei can be created.
Particle accelerators are not only unique as tools for the exploration of the subatomic world, but are also used in many different applications such as material analysis and modification and spectrometry especially in environmental science. About half of the world's 15,000 accelerators are used as ion implanters, for surface modification and for sterilization and polymerization. The ionization arising when charged particles are stopped in matter is often utilized for example in radiation surgery and therapy of cancer. At hospitals about 5,000 electron accelerators are used for this purpose. Accelerators also produce radioactive elements that are used as tracers in medicine, biology and material science. Of increasing importance in material science are ion and electron accelerators that produce abundant numbers of neutrons and photons over a wide range of energies. Well-defined beams of photons are for example increasingly used for lithography in order to fabricate the very small structures required in electronics.
For all those who actually read thru that, congrats. you have officially gained knowledge on particle accelarators.
And i have no idea why i put that up.
Hmmm.. man, i'm bored.
Ok.. creative spark gone. Till the next update then. Would you like some ice?
Twain
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