Geocaching...

Or, The Hobby That's Trying to Take Over

With my help, of course.
So, a month or so ago, I got Mike into geocaching. Now he's hooked, and even has a cache by the school. A new listing for Inner Space came up, so I HAD to go get it. Nick and Brian were heading out to do some errands, so I decided to tag along, since we all were going in the same general direction. We got to talking about various forms of seizure disorder that Brian might have along the way, and before you know, we were there. Searched for a bit, and then Brian says, "Hey, guys..." and holds up a peanut butter jar full of cool stuff... with a sprinkler system vent cap on top. He then lets out a whoop, and we sign the log and trade.
Yes, a sprinkler system vent cap. It was in the ground in a section of PVC pipe. I can't make this stuff up!
Nick says he's going to be an evil cache placer now... and I, for one, believe him!

A De Lorean for the Physics Majors

Or, Evan's Foray into the Arts

We were all in G118/G120, the classroom where we have Electrodynamics, early one monday. About a half of an hour early.
Now, note well the fact that a large amount of Physics majors in one place at one time allows for more mayhem.
A perfect illustration of this postulate was the fact that we got to speaking about "Back to the Future".
Then Evan said that he wanted to draw a De Lorean on the board.
His first attempt, by his own admission, was, at best, pathetic.
"Wait a moment..." I said. I went over to the computer, brought up a picture, and turned on the projector (which points directly at the whiteboard). We went to work.
About thirty minutes later, Dr. Anderson walks in, himself late, and says, "That's beautiful! The only problem is... now I can't use that half of the board. I can't erase something that great!"
It was only then that Mike brought up the point that there were actually three De Loreans for the three movies.
I noted that we'd only drawn a generic De Lorean, and not the Time Machine De Lorean.
Evan groaned.