Alabama, Florida, and Pennsylvania: Compare and Contrast

As promised, here is the Spring Break report:

Comparison:
They all end in a.
They are all in the United States of America.
(Which also ends in a)
Florida and Pennsylvania are in Eastern Time.
(Alabama is in Central or as Latro argues "real" time)

Contrast:
Pennsylvania is still cold!
Florida has alligators.

(which really shouldn't be baited, although no softball girls were harmed in the taking of this picture.)
and beaches... where people get sunburned.

Alabama tulips.

and golden sunsets (this kind of makes it look like fall, but I took it last Friday)

and at least one sweet frisbee golf course!

All in all, Sonic enjoyed her intense softball week in Florida and Yoda enjoyed her lazy week with Latro in Alabama.

Did anyone see the super perigee moon?
Yoda enjoyed the scene from on top of an Indian Mound :)

Now It's Back To The Grind

Spring Break is over.
We shall all weep intensively for those lazy days of yore
when we spent our energy on silly fun
and changed our pens for frisbees...

In other news,
we past the 50 days until Graduation mark.
Hip Hip Hooray!!!

We will report back later when Headquarters has had its Staff Meeting and has the press releases ready.
TTFN :)

Sit down, Shut up, and Listen

Listen all:

This coming week is Spring Break here at headquarters!

WHOOHOO!!!

SPRING BREAK!!!

catch y'all on the flip side :)

A Pi for you and a Pi for me :)

As you may well guess, today is one of our favorite holidays here at headquarters!

PI DAY!

For those who are not sure what pi is, here is the link to a page giving the first 100,000 digits of pi:

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.html

that's a lot of pi!

My favorite digits are the first eight for they are the ones I remember

3.1415926

So enjoy some pi today!

Choo Choo Darling, Once in Tennessee: A New Saga

May I present you with a present in the present? (1)

This present is the tale of one Yoda on the way to Tennessee

she met a lot of crop fields in the land of the Ohio River

and watched the fated soil run into the sea

As her travels escaped the ills of agriculture sorrow

Kentucky offered a sight of beauty in the heavens up above

watching rings of rainbow halos melt beyond the open road

After a night spent among the phili of Nashville's precious school

Our wandering heroine climbed the height-ed hills of God's glory

to examine what possibilities the future may hold (2)

Never satisfied to make one trip count for one goal

Young Yoda truly descended back into reality

with views of flooding valleys and birthday bliss

She stopped in Chattanooga, famous from that folksy song

a present from old Navy Lass, who reminded her of home

to visit with the handsome lad Latro for a southern kiss 

CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO

Glenn Miller

- from "Sun Valley Serenade"

- words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren

Pardon me, boy

Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?

Track twenty-nine

Boy, you can gimme a shine

I can afford

To board a Chattanooga choo choo

I've got my fare

And just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four

Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore

Dinner in the diner

Nothing could be finer

Than to have your ham an' eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar

Then you know that Tennessee is not very far

Shovel all the coal in

Gotta keep it rollin'

Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

There's gonna be

A certain party at the station

Satin and lace

I used to call "funny face"

She's gonna cry

Until I tell her that I'll never roam

So Chattanooga choo choo

Won't you choo-choo me home?

Chattanooga choo choo

Won't you choo-choo me home?

But her tale hasn't ended, we have more candy for the moment

Our young heroine wound her way back north

through the misty Smokies and the shredded Appalachians (3)

The road may have seemed empty, the future a tad bit insecure

but some times our young Yoda just had to bust out another song

and count the passing chicken containers (4)

Lastly, Our energetic Yoda, was welcomed back to her present

with the entrance of the snowy mountains 

remaining open about the abounding future

and what the present has in store.

Footnotes:

(1) Attributed to Sonic

(2) a picture follows of the Chapel of the Apostles at Sewanee School of Theology (I did not take that picture)

(3) for more on moutaintop removal and agricultural sorrow, ask the author

(4) seriously, how many empty chicken containers can YOU fit on one truck?

A Simple Question of Shoes

Why is it that the total walking distance of humans has dropped off since 1850 even though humanity has finally created comfortable, left and right specific shoes?

I could give you the pretty charts and graphs, but it seems so silly to me that we finally get around to designing great protection for our feet and then effectively stop walking.



(Do you know where/what this picture is from?)