I am now wearing my Kurt Rambis T-Shirt.
Coolest. T-Shirt. Ever.
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aklikins is evil
But then, so is Kurt Rambis,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ,
James Worthy and
all the 80’s Lakers! Who knew.
And in digging up random names to throw in there, I discovered there is now
an official kurtrambis.com. That almost
makes up there being no Mr. Wizard website.
more big numbers:
Big Numbers
Even Bigger Number
A Googol is a “class-2” and he defines up to “class-6” and class-3 are the largest
numbers that can be theoretically computed and compared.
More Big Numbers
Including the defination of an “antonplex”
More big numbers>
This page includes the line:
One GOOGOL is a ONE followed by 100 zeroes.
One GOOGOLPLEX is a ONE followed by one googol zeroes.
(you can't write a googolplex, even in a million years)
Which is They Might Be Giants lyric waiting to happen.
Or perhaps the Megapenny site.
Just to verify that It is possible for me to one day be a
millionaire as long as the unit in question is pennies.
Or perhaps the Borg Cube versus the
Cube of a Trillion Pennies.
lunch conversation: si units and where they came from
And on the subject, a brain hurting description of measures
of alcohol content
And just for kicks, the http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
which of course, requires a mention of powersoften.com
based on the Eames film “Powers of Ten”
Speaking of things big and small, there is Boeing’s
Pelican a concept for one big ass ground effect plane.
Or you could buy the Hendix/Zappa burnt strat. You can probabaly pick it up for about $3 megadollars. Or 3M$. Which is kind
of not really ironic considering Paul Allen will probably buy it.
And a a history of spinning. The odd things
you find while trying to find names for things.
CODeDOC
Whitney page commenting on digital art _and_ the source code used to generate it.
Didn’t do much over the weekend.
Read Ender’s Game. Not bad,
I enjoyed it. I now see why it’s so popular among military types. Though
reading a book set in outer space, and suddenly seeing a reference
to Guilford County, North Carolina is a bit odd ;->
Couldn’t sleep so decided to inventory all the music gear at
about 4am last night. At least I have all the serial numbers
written down now. I suppose I should get that into an
electronic form at some point.
Continuing the theme from yesterday:
timhunkin.com, aka, the guy that
did The Secret Life of Machines
Great web page, somewhere between Mr. Wizard[1][2], MacGyver, James Burke,
and Norm Abram, with
a touch of Burning Man Thrown in.
[1] Gasp! The Horror! google doesn’t seem to find a good
Mr. Wizard web page! Ack! The internet is broken! Someone fix
it!
[2] At various points, me, Marty and Scott from
Japan Air have talked about starting a band called “The Don Herbert Trio”.
Perhaps something to do if I ever get some
motivation
How can you not like an article about the history of safe cracking from the
guy that did The Secret
Life of Machines that includes references to Ray Bradbury and
Richard Feynman?