We're All Here!

This meeting, on Friday April 25th, was a momentous occasion because it marked one of the first meetings in recent history that the entire Tech Challenge team was grouped together to celebrate the weekly festivities of food, drink, and a little bit of work (possibly). Cassie, Aswin, Mathew, and Anisha were all in attendance, and the first pat of the meeting was used to bring all the members of the team up to speed on all of the new failures, succeses, and ideas that the device provoked in recent weeks. After Cassie and Matthew relayed the successes of the past weekend's backyard trial on the homemade test rig, Anisha and Ashwin, in a blatant move of insubordination, disbelief, incredulousity, and lack of confidence, demanded openly and vigourously to see the real device in live action. Cassie and Matthew complied, knowing the isistent nature of their troublesome teammates, and the annoying tendency of their teammates to get what they want. So the team headed out to the backyard to test the device, and the device again worked. However, Cassie and Matthew were slightly surprised at the relative lack of bubbling, and therfore productivity, of the device in the backyard as compared to the previous weekend. However, the wise sage Matthew again saved the horrorstruck Cassie with his timley observation that the flow of the actual waterfall at the trial tomorrow would ultimately be faster and produce more bubbling than the hose in the backyard, as wonderfully green and useful on hot summer days as it is.

The latter part of the meeting focused on what needed to be done for the device to prepare for the trial tomorrow. Small, simple changes were needed, such as changing the tube dowel that transported the water to the top and reinforcing all the pipe fittings. The team's morale was high, as they (or we, depending on the formality of this blog post in terms of the standard accepted English grammar concerning the idenitification of the speaker) expected to have great success at the trial tomorrow. Now, only time will tell the outcome of the coming trial. We (or they, for the same reasons previously mentioned about standard English grammar, which has actually been quite disavowed in recent culture due to the prevalence of this so-called "texting" and "instant messaging"...darn those kids these days! hooligans, rebels, no-goods, bums, lazy indolent slobs all of them!) can only wait for the coming battle, and sharpen our swords in preparation for the challenge ahead...

Mo, the soon-to-be Conqueror
(well, if he conquers, he will graciously accept this nickname to inspire his troops, and if he doesn't conquer, he will graciously accept anyways- for the troops, it's all about the morale of the troops...)