Between my two classes of the day, philosophy at 10am and differential equations at 4pm, I mostly stayed in the dungeons of Kemper. I originally intended to spend the time working on my philosophy essay, but some photoblog.com needs arose and I spent a lot of time taking care of those.

Ross brought his powerball gyro to school to exercise his arms when he has free time. I've never seen a powerball before he bought it for 20$ and brought it to circuits a couple days ago.

Basically, it's a semi-heavy plastic sphere that has a spinning gyro thing inside it. Normally, you use a string to get the spinning thing inside up to a certain RMP before you can start using it and let the laws of physics take over. After you get it running, you twirl in around with circular motions of your wrist. The gyro movement gives a lot of resistance, and it feels like you have something in your hand that's struggling to run away.

It reminds me of Naturo's rasengan. ;-)

For my philosophy essay, the guidelines state that it should be between 3 to 5 pages. Now I'm thinking, if I write 3, then whoever grades my essay will think I'm too lazy to write more. If I write 5, then I might get on the grader's nerves because they probably have better things to do than read and grade essays. Therefore, I think the most logical (and safest) thing to do is to write about four pages.