it’s april, fools!
Friday, March 31st, 2006if you cant’t beat these, don’t bother.
and if you’re wondering, i plan on faking my own death. or maybe your death. yeah, that’s better.
Archive for March, 2006
proof
Friday, March 31st, 2006Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence
what? no proof by induction? or contradiction?
skylines
Friday, March 31st, 2006ketchup
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006loser say huh
Monday, March 27th, 2006this college student spent 41 hours straight in wal-mart. mike, what have you done?
timeline
Monday, March 27th, 2006math! riddle
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006we really don’t have enough math here on yosefblog. what, you say? you didn’t notice? well, matt did.
here’s the issue of the day: fallacious proofs. what’s wrong with the following proof, if anything?
Theorem: Every natural number (that means counting numbers: 1, 2, 3, …) can be uniquely described by seventeen words or less in the English language
Proof: By way of contradiction, assume not every natural number can be described as such. Then (by the well-ordering principle of natural numbers) there must be a smallest such number (not “one”, “two”, etc., since they have their own words), call it x. But then x can be uniquely described as “the smallest number that cannot be uniquely described by seventeen words or less in the English language”, hence is uniquely described by 17 words, which is a contradiction.
Corollary: There are a finitely many natural numbers (since there are a finite number of English words [take OED words only], and hence a finite number of combinations of seventeen or less of those words).
fire!
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006i heard about this a long time ago, but i never really thought it would work (or be so cool). light a match on fire and put it in the microwave
don’t try this at [my] home. that’s what dorm/work microwaves are for. just kidding. (no i mean it, this could really burn down everything in sight, so don’t do it. but if you do, make sure to video it. thanks.)
harolds sells out
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006Chicken king goes upscale in Wicker Pk., complete with wheat-bread. wow.
I’m not a real Harold’s fan (I had the lifetime fix of grease with my first and last meal there when I was a first-year at the ole AM), but I’m guessing that those who are aren’t going to feel the same without the bullet-proof glass (and, maybe more importantly, the bullet-marks to prove it).
doh!
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006warning: inside conversation (and it’s cold outside)
jj and jim, somebody beat us to it: urinal video games. darn it.
but, they really should compute the BAC from the urine and use it as a reverse-handicap. getting to level 99 with a BAC of .05 is nowhere near as impressive as with a .19 (and not to mention the mythical .914).
and after he wins, you call him a cab, as mandated by law.