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The Aargh page

SantosHalper — Sat, 28 May 2011 23:18:11 +0000

This is amusing. Using Google data to look at the spelling of ARGH.

The fact they use the word AARGHIVE is just fantastic, and qualifies it for the Hall of Fame.

More Nerdism

innameonly — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:20:05 +0000

I make no secret of loving my Lego Mindstorms NXT set. There is also a huge community of like-minded geeks out there, playing with Legos. Including a robot that plays Connect 4.

In short, this is amazing.

Pencil Balancer using Vision Input only

SantosHalper — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:25:58 +0000

http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~conradt/projects/PencilBalancer/

God’s Number is 20

SantosHalper — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:40:52 +0000

All Rubic’s Cube combinations can be solved in 20 or less moves. http://www.cube20.org/

Huey Lewis’s Birthday

SantosHalper — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:44:01 +0000

The Heart of Rock and Roll is still beating! Heres to you Huey Lewis! You make the 4th of July extra awesome because thanks to your birthday we can keep the party going an extra day!

Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III; July 5, 1950) is an American musician, songwriter and occasional actor. He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band’s songs. The band is perhaps best known for their third album Sports and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Huey Lewis also played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.

And let us not forget: He achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Lewis

Here is a great podcast with him:

http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2007/02/the_stuck_in_th.html

Standing by your guns (and turning down $1 million bucks)

SantosHalper — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:43:20 +0000

This fellow just turned down $1,000,000 dollars, on principle, for a math prize. That is real freedom. That is a 4th of July story for you right there. (Yes, it is the wrong country, but my point stands.)

“Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, has decided to decline the cash.

Perelman’s decision was announced Thursday by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., which had awarded Perelman its Millennium Prize.

The award honors his solving of the Poincare (pwan-kah-RAY) conjecture, which deals with shapes that exist in four or more dimensions.”

Notice the zip-up-sweats under the coat.

Here is the link to the article.

The Double Down analyzed awesomely

SantosHalper — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:19:51 +0000

This is how its done. The numbers related to the great Double Down are fascinating. I have not eaten said Double Down, nor am I likely to, but what a great ode to Americana food. Click the below image for the awesome analysis.

Excel Errors, Faults and Fixes

SantosHalper — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:55:30 +0000

This is very enjoyable to read should you be interested in Excel. Particularly interesting was the Random section.

107,145 ft. with just a balloon and HD video camera

SantosHalper — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:07:24 +0000

This is a proper use of leisure time. Sending your home video camera up 107,145 ft. with a balloon, a parachute and some pink foam.

I love this stuff

SantosHalper — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:35:10 +0000

This is stuff is awesome. I admit that I have done this once or twice. Most of the time I am figuring out other people’s obfuscations though.