Ambrosia Software Web Board: How did you celebrate your May Day? - Ambrosia Software Web Board

Well, there was, at the very least, more red at school than usual today.
We played "Back in the USSR" at max volume in one of the Science classes.
And a friend of mine wore a Cuba hat to school (I believe it said 'Yo si me voy')

Don't worry, there are only two Communists in our school.
The rest of us have merely Socialist tendencies.

(Although it was the wrong day for us to be discussing the fall of the Soviet Union in European History, wasn't it?)

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Wore a Gumby shirt with jeans, ate breakfast lunch, and a kinda-dinner. Went to youth group and I guess came here...

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Woke up at 6:30, ate a grapefruit, got to my bus at 6:50. Sat in school. Helped build a mini-golf course for physcics ("engineering club") and helped work on the robots the club has been building for the competition this weekend. Came home, cut up a trash can's worth of branches, mowed the lawn, took out the trash. Came inside, had dinner. Called my friends to see what exactly is going on with my friend in the hospital (has lukemia) and tried to hammer out our plans to go see him tomorrow. E-mailed my sister in Italy, checked the boards and found that my computer was acting up and wouldn't let me access topics. Went and wrapped The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide in far-side comics to give to my friend in the hospital tomorrow. Made him a card and decided to make him a bookmark. Made the bookmark, printed it, and checked the boards again. It worked. Posted in the webstory in the O Club, and then posted everything you see above this point. Then I left, turned off the computer, took a shower, and went to bed!

It was another one of my friend's birthday's today.

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I did essay and project work. I also watched the London demonstrations on TV - and it was cool how all the odd people were queueing up to be interviewed and get their viewpoint edited down to a one-liner chosen to make them sound stupid.

I also went swimming, had coffee in the sun and wrote a birthday list.

martin

Edit - hey Shrout1 - like a 'Robot Wars' type competition? Cool

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[This message has been edited by martin (edited 05-02-2002).]

any Battlebots/Robot Wars thang is cool!

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And then there were the toe-socks...

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I wish it was as cool as "Robot Wars", it isn't the smash-bash and destroy deal they have there. It is a much more simplistic thing, you have to pre-program the bot's computer to do stuff. The point is to free ping pong balls inside of this crazy little PVC piping rectangular court. You get 1 point for each one freed, 3 more points for each one deposited on the side, or seven more points if they are passed through a hoop kinda thing sticking up above the goal. The other team is trying to free their balls at the same time, and in the center there is one large foam ball which you get 10 points for getting it in the goal and 30 points if you can get it in the hoop. At first we had a robot with an extendable arm that stopped in front of the ball, grabbed it and tried to get it into the hoop; it couldn't though, so my friends tor it apart this afternoon and are rigging it up for who knows what. I won't be at the competition, but I will be very curious on Monday as to how things went.

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Hehehe... you said 'balls'

Sounds pretty cool - brits only get lame stuff, like the 'robot olympics' - spotty nerds trying to get device (not robots) to jump 1 foot straight up, or float across a swimming pool. Bleh.

martin

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Maturity where have you gone?

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I'm ignorant (never encountered it before) of what 'may day' is. What is it?

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[This message has been edited by Joveia (edited 05-04-2002).]

Well, it was originally a pagan holiday, but it's turned into a day of celebration for communists/socialists. Don't you love how these things work?

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I'm pretty right wing myself. It's only because of my newfound 'theories'. Before I was a communist, or atleast pretended to be. I just loved it, ranting about the proletariat in my Commerce classes. Ha ha ha. Ah, the memories.

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A Party!!
In Finland its called Vappu, and its an excuse for a big party (a bit like St. Patrick's Day, only with less green). Although I am currently in Ireland, we still had a big party!

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Oh, so it is another bug hunt then...

Well, being one of the two communists in Pallas's school, I celebrated by wearing a red collared shirt and my "Mir '82" Space Launch Jacket. It's not really a launch jacket, it only looks like it. We put up posters of Marx's quotes, Gonzalo Thought, and different catchy phrases; Ho! Ho! Ho! (Ho being a communist leader/supporter in China).

On a side note... Joveia, this is ridiculous how much we have in common...

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I'm still re-ordering my thoughts on communism... I've decided that a communist like state is the eventual governmnet humanity will have. But I'm not sure I agree with it's principles (basically, putting the group's interest ahead of yours.)

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With the ritualistic killing of a poor, black, crippled little girl, sacrificed to the gods. (such as Adam Smith)

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[This message has been edited by Joveia (edited 05-08-2002).]