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Nick Homer and Stewart Clyde, students at Brigham Young University, built a motorized couch and started driving it around campus:
Two twelve volt car batteries power the broken wheel chair moving the couch. It's a pretty stable ride and the BYU students who made it have been riding in comfort through Provo. But, they aren't getting a warm welcome from BYU campus police. Motorized vehicles are banned on campus.
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Must be nice to just stop everything and do something like this.
Looks like he had a great time though.. something he'll always remember.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dnGo_2tZA
As for what I've done this year? I started a high tech manufacturing company in the US where all of our competitors are based in China since they've been outsourced over the past twenty years. Creating local jobs, products and services is a bit more complex (and less self serving) than just walking around.
Nothing against the guy. Young people should go out and see the world before committing to a career... although there's lots of ways to "find yourself" without going through a rite of passage of this magnitude. Anyway, I've just seen this meme so many times that it doesn't impress me anymore. *Yawn*