I got my GBA-SP headphone adaptor yesterday. COULD IT HAVE KILLED THEM TO BUILD IN A PROPER HEADPHONE JACK INTO THE GBA-SP!? Anyway, we didn't have to order it from Nintendo got a pair of Hip Gear at Electronics Boutique—one for me and one for Michael. They each came with a pair of not too bad earphones (I could'nt tell because there were no specs on the box and I don't know what specs a good pair of earphones has) though they could have labeled the bloody channels (I am very picky about getting my channels in the right order) but I figured it out soon enough. The adaptor is basically a simple cable you plug into the AC adaptor port, (Yes, I was thinking the same thing) so you can't use house power and your headphones at the same time, shit.

PDE

Pratt & Whitney and General Electric are racing to successfully develop a working Pulse Detonation Engine (hitherto referred to as a PDE). What is a pulse detonation engine? Take a tube, fill it with fuel, ignite the fuel, it creates an explosion that blows out the air in the tube, and sucks in more air for the next explosion; if this works, it should replace turbofans and be used to make a successful hypersonic craft by the end of this decade, woot! However, some problems include proper materials (they're so simple, I'd suggest making them disposable), regulation systems (it uses multiple explosions) et al. Another suggestion was to create a turbofan-PDE hybrid, placing a ring of PDE's in the outer combusion chamber.

Motorcycle Festival

Today is the day of the Sackville motorcycle festival; I think, because an endless series of mortorcycles passed by the front of our house today; they just kept coming… and coming… and coming… a gap… then two more… then three more… etc. and it's funny 'cause the first time I saw it (which was last year) I thought an entire biker gang had moved into town.

Here we are back again, lots of work and lots of pain.

School hath returned, though I questioned the date, (I wrote under "First Day of School" "theoretically"). Anyway, one of the exchange students is Japanese, (my prayers have been answered). She is a tiny little thing, shorter than Monica Dykeman, and Monica Dykeman is a short woman. Her face is larger than her head, but I mean no insult; I hope to meet her, discuss things, create a friendship, and lear Japanese.