Emilio’s Blog

OK I’m a week overdue on the eng games update, but I figured that if I don’t mention it now I probaby never will.

If you’ve never heard of the engineering games, it’s a province-wide competition involving most of Quebec’s universities, usually sponsored by the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Quebec (OIQ) and Hydro-Quebec (among many others). They each send out a team of would-be engineers to create the best robot they can in order to go reach certain goals and/or meet certain criteria. This year, we had to build a robot that, once turned on, would cross a terrain consisting of a forest, a river and a hill, without external guidance of any sort. On top of it all, it had to collect as much water as possible as it crossed the river. Concordia’s robot made it through the forest, but never quite reached the river. No worries though; none of the robots managed to cross the whole terrain on their own.

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I stuck with bBlog until now because I wanted to give it a chance to prove its worth, but I realize now that it’ll never match Wordpress’ potential. And besides, I’m totally sick of having bots spam my comments. So goodbye bBlog and hello WordPress!

This change will take a couple of hours, so unless you’re stalking me, you won’t ever even read this message.

…But since you’re reading this, stop stalking me.