[Grim Tuesday]

I don't know how many of you guys are in the Project Lead the Way classes, specifically Digital Electronics, but I have a very relevant story:

There's a kid in my class, let's call him Dan. He's very...naive. We were working on the infamous Birthday Problem when February break rolled around, and Dan wasn't finished. For those of you not familiar, the Birthday Problem's goal is to display ones birthday using AOI, NAND and NOR logic on a 7 segment display. We breadboard it in a standard breadboard, so it pretty much looks like a tangle of wires with a countdown clock on it. Someone had the fantastic idea of suggesting to Dan that he take the problem with him to Florida so he could work on it while he was on vacation. The whole class agreed: It would be a 'great idea' for him to do that! Everyone assumed that he knew enough not to take a breadboard with a tangle of wires on it to the airport, but he did. When he got there, he asked if he could take it with him. The TSA people were said "of course you can't that could cause a bomb scare". So they held if for him until he got back, and he relayed the story to us. Tragedy averted.