{"id":614,"date":"2008-09-01T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:23:19","slug":"piano-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Piano Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People I don&#8217;t even know say hi to me. It&#8217;s just like back home. There&#8217;s even a Joonyoung Park and a Peter Kim.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met people from China and India and Ohio. My new friends like to play Ultimate Frisbie a lot. (So that&#8217;s why Custable taught it to us.) However, the lack of proper facilities meant we had to appropriate the lawn next to McCutcheon Hall. Unfortunately, due to unexplained landscaping, I fell into a hole.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/treepit.jpg' alt='a hole with a tree in it' class='alignleft' \/>Backpedaling for the frisbie, I turned as I landed one foot in the hole twisted and apparently passed through the tree. I broke my fall with my hands and ribcage on the surprisingly sharp retaining wall bricks, and now I have bruises and &#8220;emo wrists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Or in emo poetry form: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> falling<br \/>\non the surprisingly sharp retaining wall<br \/>\nI have bruises and emo wrists<br \/>\nswitchblade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I was walking through the Engineering mall some guy came up beside me and tried to spark up a conversation as he handed me a flyer for the Rowing team. As I walked home, I thought, &#8220;Was he blind?&#8221; I lack the physical strength for the rowing team. The only things I have going for me are my low weight and my aerodynamic haircut. (I <em>do<\/em> know that I can carry a 160-lbs. Chris Brown up Chauncey Hill. It&#8217;s like having a extra heavy backpack who talks and keeps breathing on your neck.)<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized: that <em>is<\/em> all I have to offer. He wanted me to be the guy yelling &#8220;stroke&#8221; at everybody. I decided I&#8217;d go. Though if they have any sense at all, they would pick the anorexic guitar player from the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>I got a care package from home. It contained some coaxial cable, a USB hub and some chemistry goggles.<\/p>\n<p>If you remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=420\">Plan B<\/a>, I actually used it on Thursday because as everyone knows, Thursdays suck. I have to go a half mile from Lilly to the Heine building in 10 minutes. 2640 feet in 600 seconds is an average of 4.4 feet per second. That&#8217;s why I whipped out Plan B. Unfortunately, a half-mile over hot asphalt carrying 160 lbs of books and student caused the generic wheels to fail.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wheel.jpg' class='alignright' alt='busted wheel' \/><\/p>\n<p>You see, this is  &#8220;Roadstar&#8221; brand scooter. Instead of the solid plastic wheels of the Razor brand, these wheels have a rigid polymer shell and a filling made of what can only be described as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hot_glue\">hot glue gun<\/a> ammo&#8221;. The outer plastic &#8220;tire&#8221; buckled from the rim and the filling, liquefied from the commute&#8217;s 350+ (Kelvin) temperatures, seeped out and collapsed the tread. It just goes to show you that if you want to purchase high-performance kick scooters, make sure the wheels are non-cast, unlayered, transparent, injection-molded polyurethane.<a href='http:\/\/www.patentstorm.us\/patents\/5312844\/description.html' ><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I never did get to the Rowing team call out meeting. 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