Archive for May, 2009
The Open Problem Garden
May 10th, 2009
Obviously mathematicians have a great job. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, they have the best job. If you, too, would like to share in all the respect, leisure time, money, and sexual desirability that inevitably results from a career in academia, all you need to do is solve a few of the puzzles at the Open Problem Garden. Your illustrious mathematical career awaits!*
* Reward yourself with a trophy!
Parkour on a Bicycle
May 7th, 2009
Guys, the title of the post says it all. Here’s some awesome:
YEAHHHHH
Chef Programming Language
May 5th, 2009
Programming languages are hilarious. Programs written in Chef resemble recipes.*
To give you a taste** of the syntax, here’s the traditional “Hello, World!”:
Ingredients.
72 g haricot beans
101 eggs
108 g lard
111 cups oil
32 zucchinis
119 ml water
114 g red salmon
100 g dijon mustard
33 potatoes
Method.
Put potatoes into the mixing bowl. Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put red salmon into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put water into the mixing bowl. Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put eggs into the mixing bowl. Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl. Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl. Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.
Serves 1.
* Usually the most disgusting recipes imaginable. To make up for the awful Hello World Pie,*** here’s an actual recipe for delicious chocolate peanut butter cookies.
** Query: If I pun for the sake of making fun of the pun I’ve created, is it permissible? Would it have been if I hadn’t asked? Thoughts like these keep me up at night. Thoughts like these, and cookies.
*** Hello World Pie is still probably more palatable than pork cake.
DebbiesIdea.com
May 3rd, 2009
This site is pretty swell:
DebbiesIdea.com is a free, noncommercial public service created by people who love books. Here, you can get help deciding which book to read first by an author you haven’t read before or can help another reader by recommending where to start reading a writer whose work you know well.