Who likes math? Everyone, of course! That's why it sometimes happens to me when I'm bored at work. A couple days ago I was thinking about how my wedding cake had been cut. An inner circle was cut, and the inner circle and outer wheel shapes were sliced into pieces (Fig. 1).



I began to wonder how wide the inner circle would have to be in relation to the outer circle (Fig. 2) for the pieces to all have the same volume. First I made the simplification that the cake was a uniform height, meaning as long as the surface areas were all the same, the volumes would be too. Next I decided that the outer wheel could be cut into twice as many pieces as the inner circle, meaning it has to have twice the surface area (Fig. 3). Phrased as a problem:

Given that: Ab=2Aa
Solve for: Ra as a function of R

( Here's my solution )
Okay, that wasn't fun. How about something easier?

One of these things does not belong here,
One of these things is not the same.
One of these things does not belong here,
Now it's time to play our game!

Beef
Chicken
Pencil Sharpener

Cthulhu
Godzilla
A box of tissues

Gort
Torg
The Tin Woodsman

Scantily clad, skinny girls doing (supposedly) sexy gyrations under flashing lights
Drum machine dance beats
Polka

Okay, that last one was a trick question, they all go together, at least according to Slovenian Group Atomik Harmonik. Their videos are in the right column under "Videospot". If you only watch one, watch Turbo Polka, a song that put them on the charts in Germany and Austria. The accordian pimp in the ice cream suit is not to be missed. The sad thing is that Scandahoovian choreography doesn't seem to have improved much since the days of Armi and Danny from Finland, but at least the dancers are moving at the same time and the camera work makes it harder to see what they're actually doing.

I just wrote down all of the 2006 garbage days on the calendar. Garbage is collected on these days of note:

-my birthday
-september 11
-halowe'en

I find this weird in an entirely unprofound way.

For those of you wondering what's up in my life, the answer is not much. I enjoyed a week off work between Christmas and New Years, then I finished off the last of my home brew at a new years party and totally impressed myself (perhaps others, definately not my wife) by blowing three noisemakers at once using my mouth and both nostrils, and now I'm back at work. My current ambitions are to post a meme and make a wallpaper out of this image. I want to stick a spaceship in the background behind her, but I'm having a hard time finding the right one. Any thoughts? I'm also thinking of making a model of the Seaquest in LDraw, but I'm not sure what kind of scale to use.

A while ago I randomly decided to do a google image search for Judy Garland, and I came across this livejournal entry. The "Top X (movies, songs, babes, tv shows, cheeses, etc) of ALL TIME!" lists that you find in magazines have been a pet peeve of mine for a while, partly because those lists are generated by the magazine's editors as opposed to authorities on the subjects, partly because the issues are subjective and I don't need some magazine to tell me what's what, and partly because they usually omit something I think need to be included (for example, I have never seen Diana Rigg in any kind of list about beautiful women). What I liked about this list of beautiful celebrities was that it was clearly just the author's opinions, and it wasn't all flavour-of-the-week-forgotten-in-ten-years, maxim-type skinny girls. Also, it included Jennifer Blaire, which I thought was awesome. So I decided to make my own. I soon realized something that would disqualify me from compiling a list like this for a magazine, and that is that I have great difficulty coming up with a significant number of celebrities who's image I am familiar with and find attractive. Anyway, I'm satisfied with the final result, so I now proudly present...

STEVE'S TOP 100* BEAUTIFUL WOMEN** OF ALL TIME***!!!



*Actually, only the top seven.
**Celebrities only. I prefer to ogle real women, but they never make it onto these lists.
***"All time" actually means 1950 to 2005 only.
( Read more... )

I hear that for the next Harry Potter movie the role of Hermione has been recast to appeal to a broader audience.



Or maybe I just dreamed that. Let's see what it says at the bottom of a Guinness can.

Not much accomplished in the last two days. Wednsday I ordered my tophat and went out for Rick's birthday to Hon's, which wasn't bad, but not good enough to warrant returning. Thursday I cut the greens, and Jenn and I got a demo on some Cutco knives. It's a good thing we don't have money, otherwise we definately would have spent it. After that we came back to my place and watched some MST3K and the Mask.

Today I had this stuck in my head:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pika.html

And then I though of this informative site:
http://www.pukka.net/snotsykims/