Stuff I decided to say.

sumthin' to thing about

2006-10-17T18:14:00.000-06:00

" Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
-Carl Sagan

stinky

2006-09-30T20:47:00.000-06:00

a trashcan clatters as the sleek cat slides from the rough wall and scampers into the fog. i toss the black bag of trash into the reaking dumpster and shuffle away. i creep out of the misty and rotten alley and into the solem street breathing the fresh breeze.the oaks overhead sway in the grey wind, shivering thier leaves away. the cold air nips my throat and i pull my coat tighter as i reach for a cough drop. my numb fingers crinkle open the resin blob and i pop it into my mouth as i stride up the stairs to my house.

rocks and dust

2006-09-30T20:16:00.000-06:00

i walk across the empty field as the wind whisps sand across the top of the mounds. small rectangular hills where garden beds used to be. the flowers would quiver in the breeze like hundreds of paper lanters, lighting up the shaded groves of plants. the trees overhead used to be great for climbing and in the spring would burst with peaches and mulberries and pears. a fountain in a small pond would seep water to the whole garden while you would sit in the cool shade. you could eat lunch on the rough hewn benches, the wood smooth from years of use, and enjoy a little bit of the garden with it. a tomato and maybe a bell pepper, carefully reared by the sienor care center down the block. one could pick a few basil leaves for your salad or, if your feeling bouncy, pull up a fat carrot and wash it clean in the laughing fountain.
these were the days i remember with her, drinking apple juice in the hedges and rolling in the clean grass. now there is nothing but an old bench and a straggiling oak tree. i look to the street where together we would run through the sprinklers that the pond could not feed, our clothes wet, but we dint care, we had fun. i sigh as i walk past the hole where the wrenched the old apple tree from the ground. the clouds swirl overhead as i scratch the ground with a stick and drop a seed down into the nurturing earth.

cafe

2006-09-17T11:27:00.000-06:00

the gray sky swirls above, blowing pumkin colored leaves past my door as i step out into the biting wind. i stroll down the sidewalk under the crkinkling oaks. the dry wind bites at my neck as i pull the scarf tighter, its downy yarn cuddling my neck. an old taxi gargles down the black asphalt swirling the leaves behind it in a black cloud of exaust. i walk into the little cafe, the little bell on the glass dorr rings its greeting from the top of the doorframe.
"a large mocha, heavy on the chocolate" i tell the scruffy college student. the stainles steel beast churns and froths, steaming the windows as i dig for the $2.50 in my grey cargos, thier seams frail and furry. i take my mocha, cuddleing it close for warmth. i sit outside, enjoying the new weather and watch the cars go by. she walks by, her red dress flashing from underneath the large fur coat. its lke a beatiful bear just stode into the cafe. the bell jingles in happyness as she slides through the door.
"a large mocha, heavy on the chocholate" i hear her say from inside the foggy windows.

the workbench

2006-09-16T23:08:00.000-06:00

i sit at my scuffed up bench, dissasembling the tape recorder. on the cork board in front of me the desighns pinned up, a little, rustry red tack holding it there. i rip the flat dull metal casing apart the wires spill out an a color coded tangle. i pull down the plans, exposing her picture stuck to the wall behind it. its swings back and forth on its tac, her cork brown eyes stare out from behind the papers, right into mine. i look back, at her long straight hair half covering one eye with a sence of mystery. i flash back to the long board walk along the dunes, the seagulls over head strangly quiet, as the salty wind finally reaches land after travelling around the earth over open water. it swirls the sand in joy, playing with the reeds and grass of the dunes, tossing the floating seagulls higher into the air. i snap her picture against the green sea, and we walk on dissapearing into the sound of the breakers, raging against the sand.

robots, or computers?

2006-09-04T21:27:00.000-06:00

mmmm tasty, new school year
smells of fun long nights of hw, robotics club, crazy lan games.
tastes of friends, girls and ultimate
feels like STAC, school induced migranes, and loud music
sounds like the last remaining yet hottest days of summer,
looks like something scantily clad and curvy,
yet it stings like a smack across the face....
telapathetically feels like facebook and AIM, mebbe halo or star craft.
idk somebody(girls) tells me im cute.. is that a good thing?

2006-08-02T00:52:00.000-06:00

doooood! i just got the awesome new and inmproved Lego Mindstorms NXT set. it like came out yesterday.. its soo cool and complete makeover and redesighn since the previos system. the interesting thing is that the whole desighn and construction style has changed from plates and pegged beams to smooth asthetically pleaseing beams and pegs. it gives the whole system a more professional look whilst maintaining strength and function. the new style also forces the hardened RCX robotics builder to rethink his own methods of construction. all the hardware such as motors and the Brick itself have been fully upgraded and improved. anyways i might be brining you some videos of my newly created robots.

Xpod fun

2006-06-25T19:10:00.000-06:00

here are a few pictures of some things I made out of my X-Pod. It is a aircraft themed one so most of the models i make from this will be air craft type thingies

Dog days of sweat

2006-06-16T00:31:00.000-06:00

Its sooooo hot. I can't handle it for much longer. but I have made progress on some of my summer projects, I am so proud of myself! I dont think i can reach my 2000 dollar mark by the end of summer, mabey next summer. Besides, i can wait for Apple to fix some of the bugs out of the sleek new macbook (black) oh man that beauty makes me drool, even though it has only been a year since my last laptop. Well its not quite a laptop, more "desktop replacement", its good for some things, not as a true "lap" top computer though. I need a small laptop, and a badass desktop instead of this middle of the road thing, all of them would be nice though :)
neways, I now have a long period of time to work on this stupid summer school thing that i have been avoiding.
oh i forgot to mention, i now have a girlfriend now, whom I adore verry much.
man i need to go to barton springs.
sorry for not posting much, there really isint much happening around there....

SUUUUUMMMMMMEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

2006-05-26T21:19:00.000-06:00

HORAY, YAHOO!,YIPPY!, sweet moons of neptune!, its summer! another blazeing summer in texas, but at least we have barton springs!
gonna start making websites for monies here soon (i want that cool new macbook)
i have a lot of projects this summer, ranging from a robotic cleaning system to making ~ 2000 dollars by the end of the summer, along with online summer school to get sume crappy classes out of the way.
ime gonna start using this blog to kind of pilot a little project i have in mind. i learned that a few little mind teasers or puzzles a day can help you devlop a faster thought process and make you smarter. so i came up with an idea, taken from the LEGO X-Pod, a little pod of legos, enough to make one little plane or car ext.
inteadof using the same parts, i take my HUGE bucket of random legos from over the years, and evry day or so, scoop out a x-pod full of random legos from the bucket, and the challenge is to build a little model out of all the parts in the xpod by the end of the day, take a picture and repeat.
i will be posting pictures of my coolest daily xpod creations on this blog later.
feel free to do this too!

myths of the information age

2006-04-10T16:07:00.000-06:00

okay ive seen cool videos of new technology that has been developed and that is realy cool,
likt this and this and this and this
but ive also seen videos of cgi transformers stopping cars in some wharehouse in scotland

but these videios from inside lenovo (the company that bought IBM comuters) just seems a little too , well professional. what do you think!?!?

some links and pictures

2006-04-05T21:00:00.000-06:00

this is kinda depressing but its the sad truth: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57303/

ok ya know how we WON?!?!? well now we got the pictues loaded up on the website and yall can now take a look at the robot and team in action at our team website.

so yea, in essence we beat a team sponsored and mentored by 22 nasa engineers, dose that mean were smarter or better than them? just wondering. FYI the nasa team, our big rival, team number is 118, this year they had a really nice shoter but with a weak crab drive and top heavy chassis :)
tootles,
leeweek

WOOT!!

2006-04-02T18:58:00.000-06:00

well yall know how ime in robotics and evrything...
and u got to see our cool robot in my last post, welll guess what!?!?!?!?
WE WON BABY !!!! we got first place in regionals competition (that means like all of the south midwest) in Houston, and we get to go to Nationals!!!!! we have already paid, but now we have earned it!! bieng a freshman, evryone now sais ime the most spoiled freshman ever, weve won 2nd place at Texas BEST, and now 1st place at regionals competition, i have a lot to live up to......
ill try to find some pics of the competition to post, but you can find pics of the robot at :
http://lasarobotics.org/

since i have forgotten to post some cool links to interesting websites latly here we go:

ascii taken to a new level:
http://www.bemboszoo.com/

fluid dinamics of sand, kinda cool, i can play with this for hours
http://www.flashgames2play.com/Downloads/Sand/green.htm

apparently Apple just patented this:
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

plus i just got a handy wireless mouse, its soo cool

dog days of school

2006-02-22T17:50:00.000-07:00

srry devoted fans for not posting for so long.

not mutch has happened just the usual drone of school although i am finding my sci tech class to be enjoyable. since january the robotics team has been working hard on the robot, all the way up to the last minute before the fedex guy came to pick up the bot. sniff .. it was so sad to see our baby go. but i found the whole expirience enjoyable, lucky me i have 3 more years of this :).
on second thought school has become pretty enjoyable, now that i am making 'A' s im most of my classes (big fiasco with a english project)

this here is the finished robot the (hint: it shoots balls)

home sweet home

2006-01-02T21:26:00.000-07:00

horray ime home!!!!!!!
there is little better than returning home to find a multitude of small cute fuzzy aimals awaiting your return!
can you say 12 little cute babey bunnies? (ill try to get some pics of them for all u grls out there)
school starts tomorrow and ime all hyped up for scitech and FIRST robotics
this is gonna be fun!
i got back yesterday after about 3-4 hours of flight/ customs and gorged on jack in the box and freebirds. but i think my tummy wasnt quite ready for all out american feast and i threw up 3 times that night expelling a whole monster burrito and 2 jr. bacon cheeseburgers. now i feel fine. i am suprized how mutch spanish stuck with me from bieng in mexico. i will finally be at the level i need to be for my class. well gotta get ready for school, tootles!

on the road again

2005-12-31T07:40:00.000-07:00

i cant wait to get back on the road again...
yup thats right
leaving to go to puebla airport to begin my flight to AUSTIN!!!!!!
oh my god ime soo glad to go back home again
its 8:41 in the mornin so we have to move fast to get to the bus station at 9:00
ime having visions of austin already
cant wait to get back to home sweet home.
but evryone has been soo nice....
tootles

2005-12-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

whats up guys????
srry havent posted in a while been kinda bzzzzzy
this just keeps on getting funner.
the other day we went to this ausome spa place they had a big pool and water slides and stuff like that. one problem (although it was nice outside) the pool was freeezing cold, worse than barton springs. so i went down one slide and hopped out and into the sauna. this thing was soo relaxing and warm after the freezing pool, exept for the naked men (i was wearning my swim trunks). ewwwwwwwwwwwww.
yesterday i leaned how to make salsa verde enchiladas (yummy). the director lady of the school has come back from holidays with her family. the funny thing is that she is from vermont and has a really bad accent. lol. she is pretty young too. and she brought her sister and friend back with her.
and gues what?????
i get to leave sunday morniing to fly back to austin!!!!! (horray no bus!!). one problem there: my dad bought this huge really nice basket here in mexico, and its too big to take on the plane. soo we still have yet to find a way to get it home. lol
today is the last day of class for me and tonight thier having a going away party for me
(i feel loved)
just hope my plane dosent crash or anything.
tootles

rabbit

2005-12-27T13:03:00.000-07:00

hey here is a picture of the cool rabbit sculpure my parents got me for christmas. is it just me or dose it look like it belongs in somebody's acid trip? comments? opinions?

tootles - lewis

2005-12-27T12:01:00.000-07:00

hey yalll i finally go the pictures of the digital camera
thay are from the trip i took to cholula (pyramid)
i was kinda disapointed it wasnt fully uncovered but, its still ausome baby!
they had like only one staircase (lowerleft) uncovered and it was kinda small (but still one hell of a climb, when running). yes thats me a head of the pack running up the stairs.
there were these cool tunnels (top right) that wind like a maze all through the inside of the pyramid but (yet again LAME) they had all but one pathway gated off and it dint really go anywhere cool exept to the other side of the pyramid. ther is suposedly a spring at the center of the pyramid and this big chamber down there with it (super cool). but we couldent go :(
oh and there was this courtyard/ ampitheater place on a flattened landing of the pyramid which was kinda cool whith these three altars astronomically alighned to bring DOOM to alll humanity iin a hundred years!!! no, not really they just were like oriented south, west, and one that correlates with like summer solstise or something.
in other news ime feeling a lot better ime takiin this antibiotic for my strep throat and its workin. feeling better no more horiible sore throught, virtually no cough, and a little runny nose (probably allergies)
i just realized somethin. stuff here is CHEAP!!!!!! like food (gotta make shure it is safe) can be like a buck fiddy for a full course lunch! and did i tell you about the ice cream, smoothies, juice, shlushies, and frozen yogurt? fresh real exotic fruit picked fresh evry day and blended into the best tastin jamba juice ever! well g2g eat some of mi familia's equisite cusine (all that about smoothies made me hungry)
tootles - leeweek

alll better........

2005-12-26T07:23:00.000-07:00

well i dont feel bad any more its just that i got strep throat! all i have is a really bad sore throat and a little cough ill be fine. cristmas was fun and i finnally got to meet up with my parents again (i got presents!) they gave me this really trippy rabbit sculpture (i like it). the food here keeps on getting better! there was this shripimp pasta stuff, this good apple salad, ham, and this traditional fish dish but i dint like it that mutch. we are still eating leftovers
well g2g to class
tootles!

santas a comin

2005-12-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

hey guys i know this is christmas eve and all (ime not that religios)
mi familiaa is dragging me to all these posadas (groups of people canting and marching with candles and baby jesuses. but, the food is good! i me actually enjoing myself quite well. the only downsides: i have a really bad sore throght and cough, and my parents were supposed to come visit me and they havent arrived yet (are you guys out there?)
oh thanks to evrybody posting (i feel loved)
i went to the pyramids of cholula today (really cool) we went wandering through tunnels climbing steps, and buying preschios figurines. i dont have access to the digicamera at the moment so ill try to post pics later
ime loving the home theater system mi familia has. (can you say closent full of dvds?)
feliz navidad! (merry cristmas)!

mex 3

2005-12-22T13:09:00.000-07:00

i know this is the same day but guess what?
i get learn how to make all sorts of food AS A LESSON IN SCHOOL
is that crazy or what?
also i just learned i get to go to the pyramids in chalula (not ther big ones in teotechniclan) on saturday. horray. ill make shure to post some pictures of me on the pyramids.
tootles (gotta go eat)

mex - cont

2005-12-22T10:11:00.000-07:00

the spanish school actually kinda fun (but a little frustrateing)! we have been traveling all over the place gone to all the old churches and this crazy cool/pretty central park like thing (picture included) they have realllly tasty food here! like ausome frozen yogurt and icecream, really good coffee, the best tacos you have ever eaten (gotta pick the safe looking restaurant though), and amasing geograpy and architecture.
yes the volcano sometimes explodes a little but it isnt hurting anyone. the pic of me in the white shirt is on top of this big hill in the center of the city (it has a quaint little church on top) but from the hill you can see the whole town really well. ime gonnna try and make a panorama of the town from up there!
happy trails!

Voy a Mexico

2005-12-20T17:35:00.000-07:00

OMFG!!!!! OMFG!!!!!!
mexico is great
the school is fun, we take cool field trips, learn a lot, and take a lot of breaks (5 hours long). i am the only student here now (there was one when i arrived but she left) so i get all the attention so the class is easy!
i get to live with a mexican family while i am here. at first i thought it was gonna be a slum but,
the family is one of the upper class in this city so evrything is on par with american life. they have a really decorated and nice house, lots of visiting cousins, tios (aunts and uncles), a gamecube (with surround sound home theater), a mom that cooks well, and evryone is verry nice. oh and they have computers and internet (whew).
the city that i am in is called atlisco a really old city at the base of this big volcano called Popocateptl (yes it is active) that steams all day. last night there was a blizzard on the top and now it is covered in snow. the town has a really nice central park called a socalo (it has really BIG trees in it). there is soooooooooo mutch i could talk about but it will take forever. mabey ill post more (ill be here for 2 weeks!)
hasta luego!

Deported to Mexico

2005-12-16T11:50:00.000-07:00

ok guys
u know what my dad said in the car to day?
"oh yea, we are goin to mexico tonight make a list of things to pack"
he had not mentioned any thing about mexi co or vacation all year.
than he sais ime going to some hardcore spanish school some where up in the moutains in mexico!!!
CAN YOU BELIVETHIS????
so my parents are making me go,but luckly my dad is comeing with me so i wont get kidnapped and sold into slavery.
soo yea ime screwed.
could some one please come rescue me?
jk
bye

PARTAY!!!

2005-12-15T17:18:00.000-07:00

WOOT finals are over guys
time to relax and party nad have a good time
matter of fact i do belive that i passed all my classes this semester!

2005-12-11T11:26:00.000-07:00

hello evrybody!
its finals week!
and my mom is gonna kill me if i dont study
so this is gonna have to be short
i have re organized my room and my computer with the power of google desktop!
horray
ime shaking off the shacles of yahoo(lame not cool)
and going to the simplicity of google.
ahsta la vista-
lewis

Leftovers

2005-11-25T22:33:00.000-07:00

well, that was good.
my grandma mad the best stuffing EVER and i had like a whaole plate of the stuff.
hope evrybody had a happy Thanksgiving and ate lots of food (gobble gobble)
i just got this great open source, free, and powerfull 3D desighn software called Blender 3D
ive already begun to have lots of fun with it and SketchUp
well ime really tired and ime gonna go to sleep (yawn)

Beginnings

2005-11-21T23:33:00.000-07:00

Hey evrybody i gues this will be my first real post.
ime guessing evryone reading this already knows quite a bit about me (me and my loud mouth)
but do feel free to ask any questions or express any concers you have!
happy holidays evryone!
its getting around that time of year when evrybody has to give gifts and love to all that they know and care for.
(yes i get this emotionally deep when ive been staying up untill 12:30 at night)
i need peoples which would be more worth it; a letherman juice or a VEX kit (robotics kit)

ok i have this habit called stumbleing(http://www.stumbleupon.com/)
and for those of you without the google/wiki/stumbleing powers that i have
i will be posting funny/ cool/ interesting/ deep sites that i find

1. this is a crazy expiriment (dont try this at home kids):
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html

2. really good artist:
http://www.raynault.com/

3. do you belive? :
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#disclaimer

ok ill leave it at that so you guys dont get tired of it
remember there is a big wide world out there all you have to do it walk through it.
-just made that up
lol ttyl

helloooooooo

2005-11-21T23:00:00.000-07:00

hi guys you were most likely directed here from my xanga or me soooo..... yea
this is better
its not for so mutch profit
MUTCH simpler and its made by google!
have fun!
happy holidays!