Steph and I were making up our very own Ben Gibbard songs last night and so I thought I’d record one today. It started out as a parody, but now I sort of like it. Curse you, Gibbard!
Give ‘er a listen!
I started a photo album
and replaced every picture of you
with a T-bill
It’s the only way
We will ever appreciate
I went to the farmer’s market today
and bought a cadburry easter egg
filled with gold
and I whine about it
My lips are swollen
i never told them about you
silence is golden
they never know when it’s you
A sage told me: if you have two perfect business plans, one for hamburgers and one for nanotechnology, go with the hamburgers.
Just one link. Le Petite Prince knows some of these tiny worlds. ( I am having problems with a flower.)
You should be a fan of xkcd if you revel being a geek.
Hippies love fractals. The formula pictured is the grand daddy of these (which are pretty (yes, I’m a hippy)).
I sat down to record a song that’s been in my head, but this one came out first.
Sympatico.
The (a) recorded version.
Will someone who can sing please do this kind of thing for me? In between the off-notes you can hear me wheezing as I was having an asthma episode.
Meredith and I took a guitar down to Wilson park and worked on this song. (It originally featured “spam” as a prominent theme.) As I sang it into the woods a fox came out of the woods, looked me in the eye and spoke: “Tame me!”
Open question to StumbleUpon: I don’t hate the photos of the topless girls, but can you somehow not show them between 8AM and 6PM? I’ll let you know what timezone I’m in and everything.
Recorded song to follow shortly.
PS - Cynthia wants me to mention that her son asked her today where her pee-pee is. Her son is 17 years old.
Yesterday I linked to an IBM site which puts up a new, pretty cool math problem every month. The one for this month is simplicity itself, “what is the size of the largest square that will fit in the unit cube?” I sent this to my math homies at work because day-job is great, but every once in a while you need a good shot in the brain. Chuck, who I am now calling “Patty O’Spoilerton”, immediately recognized the problem as something he had seen as a young nerdling at school and emailed us all a website with the “solution“.
Thing is, that site really glosses over some very important details. It sets us on the right track of viewing the cube from above a vertex so it resembles a hexagon, but then they just toss out some number for the largest square to fit in a hexagon. That became our problem… given a hexagon, what is the largest square that will fit inside? Here’s my answer.
Wouldn’t it be cool to make two cubes with the proper holes cut into each? You could pass cube A through cube B then cube B through A in an endless juggling T.A.R.D.I.S-style mindfuck loop. Put this down on the list of ways to blow your future grandkid’s minds.
Update: Paul found the answer on the Wolfram site, and I was wondering why it differed from mine even though they seemed like the same square. The solution we were solving is not what the problem was really asking. The area of the largest hole that can be cut in a cube is not the largest square that can fit inside a cube. The former is smaller than the latter. Sure, they may look the same from a certain perspective (right above the vertex), but the area of the square is a nice 1.125, not some irrational number.
