Too Funky For Words

[Bruce Brakel]

http://home.cwru.edu/~jnt5/Planarity/

Not funky.  just an interesting game.  

[Bruce Brakel]

Elvis is dead.  http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-....jsp?id=1751382

[Guest]

"Elvis will crash land a UFO into Loch Ness hitting the monster."

He will.
Oh yes he will.

[Jon Brakel]

Our greatest minds at work...http://www.nbc5.com/news/4860030/detail.ht...994&dppid=65192

[Bruce Brakel]

This is an extraordinary example of thorough research of an entirely useless topic.

http://mijnkopthee.nl/images/space_compari...chart_huge.jpeg

I would want to have that printed out and laminated if I were going to a convention wearing pointy ears or forehead ridges!  

[Bruce Brakel]

This is pretty funny.  http://www.castillalamancha.es/clmjoven/en...gpongmatrix.htm

[Bruce Brakel]

This is an amusing, very short, science fiction story that takes a common Star Trek plot theme and turns it upside down.  

http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

[drdye]

Remember Pong?


Play PONG!!!

 

[Jon Brakel]

Remember Pong?


Play PONG!!!

Very funny!

Careful...the popup at the end is not exactly work safe!

[Younk]

OPEN WIDE:

[adoni]

I work behind a computer day in and day out.  I am an engineer at Cat and use CAD to do my designs and models.  A fellow engineer sent me this little poser ... all those that feel they have great math skills .... Where did the hole come from?

[Bruce Brakel]

The top "triangle" has a concave hypotenuse.  The bottom "triangle with a missing square" has a convex hypotenuse.  Since the little component triangle has a slope of 5x:2y the big component triangle should have a slope of 7.5x:3y, but its actual slope is 8x:3y.  [Not sure how you write slopes nowadays.  It's been 30 years since I took algebra.]  Anyway, the two assembled "triangles" are not congruent.  

[adoni]

Bruce,

I used the convex / concave answer when I explained it to my friend.  When you find the area of the convex / concave thingie ... it's the area of the empty square.  My fellow engineer went about it in a totally mathematical way .. here's his explaination ....

"The diagram gives the illusion that the combined pieces form a true
right triangle.  If this is true then the following must be true:

- The hypothenuse of the large triangle must be equal to the sum of the
two individual hypothenuses.  If this is true, then the following must
be true.

       sqrt( 5*5 + 2*2 ) + sqrt( 8*8 + 3*3 ) = sqrt( 13*13 + 5*5 ).

       Since:  13.929 != 12.806, the triangle must not a true triangle.
This is how the 2 diagrams can look as such."

[discmonkey]

Thanks, now my head hurts.    

[Chainmeister]

You might as well hit the link below.  THEY already know you have done so...

http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927

[Younk]

F-ing spammers!!!

It's bad enough that pop-ups show up all the time now we have to deal with idiot spammers who litter our wonderful site.

Someone please delete these bitches!

\end rant

[maa4208]

What the heck is that?

The stuff above is messed up!

[mirth]

it was bad enough when the message board spammers would make one post, but three in a row is downright annoying.

Unfortunately, there isn't much that can be done since we want to keep parts of the message board open to people who don't want to register for an account for whatever personal reasons.

[mirth]

For once, a post in this thread that isn't spam!

http://static.rcgroups.com/gallery/data/50...RAZY_lights.wmv

[damonshort]

pretty cool.

If you want to send this on to someone who might be offended by the stupid opening and closing boards - I'll use the f-word and s-word as much as anyone, but come on... - try this:

http://gorillamask.net/Media/xmasinsanity.wmv