one more thing

I need to write a script that will make me a daily/weekly schedule. It needs to generate the weather, stuff from my google calander, parse the facebook birthday page, put important rss feeds on there, etc. There are scripts that do some of this, I just need to modify them.

I lied

Had to write these down. These are the embedded electronics modules that I want to play with:

-XBee wireless
-arduino (lillypad, duamelavente or however you spell it)
-MAKE controller
-phidget
-vex controller
-ATMega

work

There won't be any posts for the next couple weeks because of finals. I will literally be studying 24/7 for the next 3 weeks. I promise I have lots of cool projects planned for the summer, and I will update that as soon as I can. Until then...

What are the odds?

Recently, my friend's dad got 5 of the 6 lottery numbers and won a bunch of money.

according to Wikipedia, the odds of winning the florida lottery is 1:22,957,480

(the odds of what her dad won are 1:81,409)

according to the national safety council website, you are:

4 times more likely to die from legal execution than win the lottery

3 times more likely to die from being hit by lightning

about as likely to die from excessive heat or cold from a man made origin

about as likely to die from being confined to or trapped in a low oxygen environment

2 times more likely to die from being struck by another person or from the explosion of a pressurized device

11 times more likely to be killed from an accident when you are an passenger in an animal drawn vehicle.


That is why I will never buy a lottery ticket.