Friday, January 14, 2011

Pyramid of Aristotle

Had the day off of work so i spent most of it just sitting in front of my macbook messing around. had to go to my parents house to change my headlight that went out. of course it was sub-zero temperatures while doing it. my dad did all the work i just held the flashlight, can not wait until i have a kid.

Went to the bowling alley with Joe and Jackie. bowled pretty good for not stepping foot in an alley in over 8 months. left early and went back home. Joe and i played some minecraft on our server and we both made quite a bit of progress. Joe has given up on his castle and has decided to assist me with my Pyramid project. he widened a tunnel underground 3*25*really long. mainly for materials for construction projects going on right now. honestly 90% of the work on this pyramid is clearing the work space on the map before the work actually commences. i finally succeeded in the starting of the outer framing. Joe came up with an idea that i should make it out of cobblestone steps instead of the blocks themselves. making the whole structure traversable abound its face. i had thought of this and disregarded it due to the immense amount of additional work it would create, but Joe talked me into it. the problem is for every 6 cobblestone blocks one gets 4 steps. so with a 60% return rate i am going to use a ton more material than originally calculated. i did the math and for my pyramid i will need 20,00 cobblestone blocks to create all the steps necessary. which is crazy. also i looked at the size of the Pyramid of Giza and mine is almost exactly 1/3 the surface area(not volume since mine will be hollow), which is pretty awesome. from where the top of the pyramid will be one can start to see the framing coming together around it. here is a picture of the progress. i will put together a time lapse video when it is all finished.

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