Hello, everybody.

Today is the last day you think about ECS labs.

We thought this called for something to mark the occasion.

Will the congregation please rise for the opening song?

Lyrics:E-C-S colon Modcon

Gill and Brian labs are done*whack*

Eulogy

Read by the Honorable Eric VanWyk

An Intercession for Passing

(please join)

• Reader: We are gathered here today in the name of ECS to turn our experimental data back to the light.

• Chorus (that’s you): For our data has wandered far from the righteous path; it strays from the truth of Simulink.

• Reader: Let us call upon the name of Brian.• Chorus: For he can show our data the error of

its ways.

• Reader: My Simulink does not cooperate. See how its arrows point into the integrator! Yet no correct graph issues forth from simout; my experimental data stands lonesome in the pouring rain.

• Chorus: O Brian, help us, for our data follows not the righteous path.

• Reader: Let us call upon the name of Gill.

• Chorus: For he can show our circuit the error of its ways.

• Reader: See my plot! Watch how it curves. My data follows not this way, for it is corrupted with much extraneous noise.

• Chorus: O Gill, help us, for our data follows not the righteous path.

• Reader: Yea, though we walk through the shadow of the valley of nonfunctional data acquisition cards, we fear not MATLAB, for thou art with us. Thy jumper wires and thy pliers, they comfort us.

• Chorus: O Brian, help us.

• Reader: We call upon the aid of Brian Story, and Gill Pratt, and all the NINJAs and sophomores who have gone before us into the year beyond.

• Chorus: For thine is the MATLAB, and the power, and the PID control forever.

• Reader: Brian Storey, who fixes the .ms of the world...

• Chorus: Have mercy on us.• Reader: Gill Pratt, who fixes the

breadboards of the world...• Chorus: Have mercy on us.• Reader: O ECS, you take away the sanity

of our world.• Chorus: Grant us sleep.

Closing

(please dance merrily)