tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48213872710342472112024-02-19T21:45:34.405-05:00The Quirky QuintetOur take on life, humor and everything in between.runiteking1http://www.blogger.com/profile/00804819954326072892noreply@blogger.comBlogger505125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821387271034247211.post-55611981099773007542010-08-31T20:25:00.001-04:002010-08-31T20:25:23.645-04:00Whoa, just rediscovered this... when was the last time I posted? Hi guys..<br /><br />-runiteking1<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Got comments? Post them below!</span></i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>Can you read me??? Oh mighty Reader! Display me!</p>
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Thinking this recovery week was going to be a breeze compared to the normal program, I didn't bring a successful mindset to "Core Synergistic." Yoga is probably the hardest program right now for me, and it preceded the core synergistic; I thought the hard part was over (until tomorrow... which is yoga again).<br />
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When the program started hitting me with plank runs, and jail-cell pushups, I ran out of juice. My ego was super hurt. The next two days, I followed the schedule, eager to try synergistic again. Today, I finally got to do it again.<br />
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My muscles responded much better today. I did the same number of reps for everything and actually completed the whole program plus a few of the bonus rounds without feeling any stronger.<br />
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A correct mindset is a must.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">set = [0,0]</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">//Set won by each player</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">games_won = [0,0]</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">//Games won for the current set</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">current_set = 1</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">//which set we're tracking</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">updateNumber()</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">//assuming there's a function for updating the number with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">//syntax as (player number, set) and adds one to the game</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">while (set[0] != 3 || set[1] != 3):</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">while abs(games_won[0] - games_won[1]) < 1 :</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">temp = int(input("who won the game?"))</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">//assuming the referee inputs stuff corectly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">updateNumber(temp, current_set)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">set[temp] += 1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">current_set += 1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">print "Player " temp+1 " is the winner!"</span><br />
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You're welcome Wimbledon.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
(... hmm there might be a bug in there somewhere....)<br />
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The match between Isner and Mahut has gone on for over 10 hours; the average men's tennis match lasts only three and a half hour. Lets put that in context shall we?<br />
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Imagine going to a football game. In my mind, the typical football (American) lasts around four hours. Now imagine the football game lasting twelve hours. I bet half the player would get some sort of dementia at the age of 30 after that. (Lets not even go into rugby.)<br />
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Getting into this World Cup fever: the rules of FIFA overtime is two periods of 15 minutes. A soccer game lasting 90 minutes would have to play six overtimes. Count them: One, two, three, four, five, six.<br />
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I'm so shocked right now.<br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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</tbody></table>I watched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_(2008_film)">Wanted</a> on HBO the other day. The action was quite intense and made me wish I could beat my heart 400 times a minute. But somehow, thinking of the movie today brought me to one particular scene: when Wesley came back to his old house to retrieve his "father's" handgun.<br />
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A bit of background: Wesley dumped the handgun into the container of his toilet the day before because he thought the abduction was a dream (watch the movie, or read the plot, but the main thing is that the handgun is in the toilet).<br />
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Wouldn't that save a lot of water though? If every household owns one handgun and stores it in the toilet (yes, this is far-fetched....), how much water would the US save?<br />
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The volume of a an average pistol is no where to be found on the internet. So using 1100g as the standard weight of a handgun, and using a density less than steel 7.4 g/cm^3 (because of the plastics and other metals), the volume of a handgun is around .149 liters of volume. Assuming that this that the <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf">census</a> data is quite accurate, 115 million households will exist.<br />
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115,000,000*.149 = 17135000 liters<br />
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which really isn't a lot. Except that it's the amount of water saved per flush. Using a conservative estimate of 2 flush a day for each household (with each household only having 1 toilet...):<br />
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2*365*17135000 = 1.251*10^10 liters<br />
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It's a respectable amount of water (apparently 1/40 of the water in the Sydney Harbor). I guess saving a gun in neither practical nor that economical (a savings around 330 million).<br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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Infant are too small to wield a knife. Toddlers too immature to not play with the food. Seven year olds too busy with reading and arithmetic. Teens contain too much angst to learn cooking. College students obviously have no time.<br />
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Besides the occasional baked goods, there's no where to gain real experience for the majority!<br />
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Use your imagination on what happens right after the college students with no means of food production go into the real world. They either starve, or rely on yucky, pre-made food. A cycle of fatness ensues.<br />
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Hmm. <br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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Pictionary is a spectacle of subliminal messaging and intense frustration. Sometimes the simplest of pictures convey the deepest of thoughts. Once again, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictionary">Wikipedia</a> comes to the rescue if you never played it. <br />
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What do you get when you fuse the two? The creatively named game of Telephone Pictionary.<br />
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The game is simple and easy to set up. One only needs at least 4 more friends, sheets of paper and pens/pencils.<br />
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Each player starts by writing a sentence at the very top of the paper. It could be as simple as "I walk" or as complicated as a sentence from the Bard. Then each player passes the paper to the left or right.<br />
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By now, each player will have a sheet of paper with a different sentence on it. This is where the Pictionary part comes in: each player now draws an interpretation of the sentence as best as each person can in a reasonable amount of time. Now each player folds the initial sentence in a way that the next player can't see it. Pass it again.<br />
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Now you should get the gist. Each player sees only one previous item from the last player and writes either a sentence or picture again. Once the paper reaches the original owner (which might not even recognize it) the round is over. <br />
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Hilarity ensues. <br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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My little brother is now learning the famous Ode to Joy on his little piano. He would play everything perfectly but have his one pitfall at the end. The music calls for a 3 quarter notes to pull out the cadence but he always dot one of the notes (if you don't know what I'm talking about, looked at the embedded video, 27-28 seconds in). Indeed he is incorrect, but from my musical standpoint, the dotted note is much more natural and musical; the reason for the straight quarter notes: dotted notes are not introduced yet.<br />
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How does the two story tie together? My mom was drilling my little brother on the "correct" way to play the piece but not the more musical way. It might be a small act but the glass roof has been lowered a bit today.<br />
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In that dire light, I've decided to actually try and get fit again. My friend have constantly told me about how P90X is the most intense thing they went through so I went for it. It isn't disappoint so far.<br />
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The program is quite daunting, especially the first week. I consider myself to be relatively good shape compared to other Americans, but the first day burned me out completely. The second day was basically just lots of jumping and running in place, but I couldn't finish it in one take. Oh, and did I mention my whole body is an aching pain?<br />
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But I feel so much energy...<br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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</tbody></table>Even with my heavy coursework this year, I don't think I really learned much that I'm going to use later in life. Calculus will come in handy for majors that I'm considering and physics is still a marvel to me, but those aren't really "life." This year pushed my emotional self to a new maturity level by finally opening my eyes to how to how the mysterious connection between all people transcends all physical object.<br />
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I would treasure my clarinet more than the players I played with. I would love my trophies more than my fellow competitors. That mindset of advancing at all cost has gotten me to where I am now but it will not be able to launch me any further. Somehow this year, during the times of weakness and tenderness, I realized that those little stories of how the physical world doesn't matter are quite true.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thelastlecture.com/">The Last Lecture</a> comes to mind. That video came out when I was in 9th grade, and I thought the anecdote about the car and the kid was nice, but ultimately, a story. Who would really done that? When my shelf of trophies dating back to middle school came crashing down in ninth grade, I was extremely upset to the point where I cried a bit. To me at the time, the trophy encapsulates the joys of competitions. Breaking another trophy, this time a large, second place one, at state, I felt no remorse. I had fun getting it and realized that a trophy is not a Horcrux containing the journey.<br />
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I finally leveled up.<br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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</div><div>Finally going to start posting again.<br />
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<br />
Lets use Glee, the show about class/power struggle in high school, as an example of this ungrounded hatred. I'm not going to lie, before the show, an actual glee club seems kind of weird and gay. The show did change my view on glee clubs, but I didn't just get hooked because I love to watch people sing. Ms. Sue Sylvester hooked me. Her endless evil is just amazing and wittiness is addicting. Evidence:<br />
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Likewise in Twilight, there could be some dark horse laying in that book that guys must love. Maybe we could fantasize that Bella (is that the name?) is actually the hot one and that the Edward is some stupid jerk. Just throwing it out there.<br />
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Last point I want to make about this Twilight thing: the Philippines must really love vampires. As a backup post on Twilight, I was hoping to see some random correlation between twilight and such terms as suicide, murder, gay, or abuse on Google Trends but nothing popped up. Still, if you scroll down to see regions, the United States is only in third place with the Philippines placing first.<br />
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Just saying. <br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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I really do like the last sentence. <br />
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Television is no help; take a look at any drama show and you see R rated stuff. Grand Theft Auto has effectively made games the prime target for violence and sex while 4chan has decimated the web's chance of being viewed as innocent. Reading materials aren't that much better either: Newspaper exhibits the violence of this world and the some books are so graphic that, what they create with words, could be considered pornographic. What's so far untouched?<br />
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Old-fashioned comics.<br />
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I'm not talking xkcd comics here, in fact some a quarter <a href="http://xkcd.com/316/">references sex</a> (with that hint of science and math of course); I'm talking about normal stuff you see in the newspaper everyday. Foxtrot, B.C., Hagar the Horrible, and Blondie etc.<br />
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Dagwood's wife Blondie is quite curvy and, dare I say, voluptuous. Still Dagwood never mentions anything about having sex with his wife even while laying in bed (which happens quite a few times). Rather Mr. Dagwood is more focused on eating sandwiches and napping. The same theme can be seen in Zits, the comic about teenagers. Many times Jeramey Duncan dreams of going out with Sara but never once did it mention sex.<br />
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Violence is also downplayed greatly. Beetle Bailey, the comic on soldiers and war, makes war seems as though it is fun by showing the funny pitfalls of commanders and their leaders. Hagar the Horrible constantly goes to war to raid various places but never in the strip to they mention death or suffering.<br />
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There still is one spot of refuge left for humor without the influx of dark influences. <br />
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The number one thing to a good show is knowing your parts, sets and maneuvers but considering that one hundred people that are not all equally motivated to learn them are marching with you (what happened to the smaller competitive band idea?), you need to "dress to form"; in other words awareness. <br />
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So how do you exactly dress to form? Three things:<br />
<ol><li>Simple geometry. I hope you know what a straight line is like... or a curved line.</li>
<li>What part of the geometry you're part of. You can usually cheat this by seeing what others are doing, but I'm not endorsing it.<br />
</li>
<li>Where in the world you are in the line (you may not use a GPS). <br />
</li>
</ol>Lets take an example. <br />
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</div>You are the red dot, and this is suppose to be a line. What should you do? Move up or down (depends on your perspective) right? On the field, anytime if you're in a straight line you should be able to see parts of the peoples standing next to you. If you don't, move back. If you see their hair hanging on their collars, move forward. This should be second nature by the end of the season for all you freshman.<br />
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Curves and diagonals are kind of funny. Since they're more a "2D" feel (not really.. they're still lines... ), you have to either move in the vertical or horizontal direction. The general rule of thumb is to adjust forwards and backwards as left and right intervals are usually too noticeable to the Box of Judgement (press box). If you really need an example to be drawn out, and waste another 10 minutes of my life working a graphics program, facebook me.<br />
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Another thing is uniformity. In my opinion, we spend way too much time worrying about uniforms (and those darn hair) which is WAY less visible than those darn horn angles. If you wear white socks, I doubt the judges would notice if the person next to you is holding his/her flute at a complementary angle to your angle (go do some geometry, good for your brain). While you're marching around, remember to follow your section leader in their example of horn angle. I don't care if your arms gets tired, you'll build up awesome muscles if it gets tired.<br />
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But when you're tired, deep into the third tune, with bases loaded and no outs, still remember to hit your key spots. One such spot is opening set, where I think half the band don't know how far to go past the hash (kudos to Brent for knowing where to go every time we set up off the field). That's a pretty critical set. Other such places you should hit is when you're leading a line with a follow the leader maneuver. Don't be like Kool-Aid guy and lead people to doom in front of trombones, know where you're going (you should know where you're going at all times anyways.... but this is especially important). Also of importance: point of diagonal, front of vertical line, furthest point back etc.<br />
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Several other stuff I've noticed over the years that I can't really elaborate much on, or self explanatory:<br />
<ul><li> It helps greatly to play a sport or be in shape, marching was a PE credit back in George Bush's regime for a reason.</li>
<li> Wind players need to blow more from the stomach, I see lots of people raising their shoulders to breath meaning a shallow breath and no air for Pedro.</li>
<li>Keep the tune in mind when you march, the tune usually corresponds to a lift (with the exception of any way you want it... which we could easily fix...... >.>) </li>
<li>Learn to judge depth by using your angle to the podiums (maybe this work for mathy people but that's how I judge sometimes, and it helps)</li>
<li>Don't get too close to the person to the left or right of you. The person on the opposite side will get lonely.</li>
</ul>My 2 cents.<br />
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NOTICE: DCI people all memorize where to go and exactly how to get there, this is for those people who don't practice for 15 hours a week on the field. Still please learn your spots. I didn't touch on fundamentals as I assumed that we've catched them by now... <br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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Assuming no splits (Tapping your own hands to redistribute the number), I found out player two can always win. A few minutes of boredom made me draw up a simple tree of each move each player can do. I assumed the following: having two hands out is better than one (meaning that the player will strike out a hand as soon as possible) and no stupid moves to the depth of one (translation: not commiting suicide by seeing only one move ahead).<br />
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So by the second move, the hands will look like 1 1 - 2 1 (1 on left hand and right hand for P1 and 2 on left hand and 1 on right hand for P2). If player two strikes P1 with the 2 hand, P2 will lose as P1 can easily get out one hand of the opponent.<br />
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Now, if player two strikes with the one hand, then no matter what P1 does, he or she will lose. If P1 makes it a 2 1 - 2 2, P2 can win it by striking the one (try it out yourself if you don't believe me). Or if P1 makes it a 2 1 - 4 1 or a 2 1 - 3 2 game, both results in P1 getting into too huge a hole (down by a whole hand) to be able to climb out of the hole.<br />
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I should really write a computer program to simulate the whole fingers with split... <br />
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Wolfram Alpha can help with all that.<br />
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If you never been to <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/">wolframalpha.com,</a> you're in for a treat. Need the molar mass of bromochlorodifluoromethane (CBrClF2, could totally happen)? Just type in<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><pre>CBrClF2 Molar Mass</pre></div><br />
into the search box. Or if you like, you could also say<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><pre>bromochlorodifluoromethane Molar Mass</pre></div><br />
pretty cool eh? Also the team may also release features such as reaction predictions etc. But so far, molar mass is pretty much the thing that takes up the most time (at least for me).<br />
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This post will probably be updated as the chem class progresses for either new features or new ways to exploit it. <br />
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The other logical things that look like what it means is obviously emoticons. If you show the symbol<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">:-)</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">to a caveman, he or she would instantly know that it's a human smiling. In fact, one of the first emoticons ever recorded is in a speech by Lincoln. In the speech, Lincoln put in parenthesis "applause and laughter ;)." There's a people that says that the ;) was actually a typo, and even though that may be true, I would like to think of Lincoln as the champion of racial rights and the inventor of the smiley face.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">The modern smiley face was popularized on September 19, 1982 by a guy named Scott Fahlman. In a post on Carnegie Mellon's message board, he said:<br />
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<pre style="border: 0px none;">19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
:-( </pre>Then there are those words that require a bit of imagination, such as shark or llama. The shark is pretty obvious, with the 'k' as the tail and 'h' as the fins. The llama on the other hand, requires a picture:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/2169050955_8834aa0d41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/2169050955_8834aa0d41.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Such a win of a picture of a llama. </div><br />
I guess I should go back to my title and tell you what the word "PIE" looks like:<br />
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3.14<br />
PIE<br />
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Flip it.<br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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One afternoon at school, they hot lunch was spaghetti with meat balls. I decided against it, which was a pretty good idea. By the time I got home, I learned that my dinner was going to be lasagna. Somehow, the differences between the two foods just don't quite add up.<br />
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A quick search of ravioli, tortellini, spaghetti and lasagna from Wikipedia:<br />
<blockquote>Ravioli: Ravioli (plural; singular: raviolo) are a type of filled <b>pasta</b> composed of a filling sealed between<br />
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Tortellini: Tortellini is a kind of ring-shaped <b>pasta</b>.<br />
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Spaghetti: Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical <b>pasta</b> of Italian origin.<br />
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Lasagna: Lasagna (singular, Italian pronunciation: [laˈzaɲa]; plural lasagne [laˈzaɲe]) is both a form of <b>pasta</b> in sheets (sometimes rippled, though seldom so in Northern Italy)...</blockquote>All four dishes are usually served with tomatoes and cheese with other seasonings that can be used between all four. Seemingly, all the Italian foods popular in America are made with some sort of pasta. Pizza for instance, tomatoes, cheese and dough. Here's an equation you should know:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Pasta == Dough</div><br />
Therefore pizza is made out of tomatoes, cheese and pasta. Q.E.D.<br />
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Now this isn't a rant on how Italian food is terrible. I love Olive Garden's bread sticks and some of their pastas but more of a criticism against the food choice of Americans from the Italian cruisine. <br />
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For physics, on your handy dandy Ti-84, there's an application called Science Tools (abbreviated as SciTools). Go to your application menu and pull it up. In SciTools' menu, choose the last choice (Vector Calculator).<br />
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The vector calculator allows you to insert vectors using (x,y) coordinates, polar, do basic addition, subtraction, dot product and cross product. To insert the vector in their various forms, just hit the button under the choice (so for X/Y you would push Y= and for R/Theta you would press Window etc.).<br />
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Now as you insert a vector in, you can hit the "Next" button (trace) to work with another vector. After you inserted your second vector, you can use the "Math" button to do operations on the vectors. If you choose the "Math" tab, press the "Select" button to select the vectors you want to do your operation on, and the "Next"/"Previous" buttons to scroll. The result is then stored in V9 (use "Next" to scroll to it). You can then operate on V9 (which is your resultant by adding it to other vectors)<br />
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If you didn't understand what I just said, just ask me in class. <br />
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<blockquote>The repentant former KKK leader Johnny Lee Clary explains how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Watts">Reverend Wade Watts</a>, an NAACP leader, disarmed him by being cool, funny and brave, engaging in some first-rate psy-ops. Be sure to listen through to the end for the chicken story. </blockquote><br />
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2. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Daily Show<br />
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<table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'><tbody><tr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a></td><td style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'>Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c</td></tr><tr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-30-2007/neil-degrasse-tyson-pt--1'>Neil deGrasse Tyson Pt. 1</a></td></tr><tr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'><td colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:360px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'><a target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/'>www.thedailyshow.com</a></td></tr><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><embed style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:81508' width='360' height='301' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed></td></tr><tr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><table style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes'>Daily Show<br/> Full Episodes</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-17-2009/heal-or-no-heal---medicine-brawl'>Healthcare Protests</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'><tbody><tr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a></td><td style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'>Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c</td></tr><tr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-30-2007/neil-degrasse-tyson-pt--2'>Neil deGrasse Tyson Pt. 2</a></td></tr><tr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'><td colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:360px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'><a target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/'>www.thedailyshow.com</a></td></tr><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><embed style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:81507' width='360' height='301' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed></td></tr><tr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><table style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes'>Daily Show<br/> Full Episodes</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-17-2009/heal-or-no-heal---medicine-brawl'>Healthcare Protests</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
-runiteking1<br />
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Somehow, the designers of the parking spots of my high school have forgotten that the northern parts of Tallahassee is under intense development in the 1990s (ie Summerbrooke and surrounding communities) and happen to only put 2 lanes into the entry way to our school.<br />
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Lets do some basic math. I'm going to assume the following:<br />
<ul><li>average length of a car is around 5 meters. </li>
<li>average speed into the parking lot is 10 mph (equivalent to 4.47 m/s)</li>
<li>average distance between cars is 1 meter. </li>
<li>average numbers of cars trying to get in is around 1200 cars<br />
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</ul>Now, without all other factors, such as stop signs, traffic from Thomasville road etc.<br />
<blockquote>5 meters + 1 meters = 6 meters for each car to go through<br />
6 meters * 1200 cars = 7200 meters total<br />
9000 meters/4.47 m/s = 1611 seconds = 26 minutes 50 seconds</blockquote>Remember, this is under ideal conditions.<br />
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That means tomorrow, I wake up even earlier....<br />
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-runiteking1<br />
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