March « 2008 « Antworten zum Universum

Earth Hour

By Chewxy, on March 30th, 2008%

Earth Hour whiteboard

That’s what I wrote. And then you go.. hmm, that’s right, Chewxy doesn’t bother about Planet Earth because he’s not human (that’s my writing on the board btw). Continue reading Earth Hour

Quick Updates

By Chewxy, on March 28th, 2008%

I’ve been rather busy all week, so here is sommat quick: Continue reading Quick Updates

Prank Victim #1

By Chewxy, on March 25th, 2008%

Man, I seem to be always falling for pranks, seemingly clueless always.

Here’s the latest prank I fell for. I had ‘oi whats your phone number‘ my MSN personal message last night, and within a few hours, I was flooded with people wanting to give me their phone numbers. Anyways, u238 decided to join the fun. This is our chat log:

u238 says:
03 9347 6000

u238says:
call me now

Chewxy says:
Er.. I already have your phone number

u238 says:
house number

Chewxy says:
What for?

u238 says:
I got a cool house phone? and a nice number

u238 says:
58 bucks from myer. panasonic cordless. with this that

At that point, I called the number. Continue reading Prank Victim #1

A Game of Frisbee

By Chewxy, on March 23rd, 2008%

We played frisbee yesterday. And I am still sore from the extra running and jumping and physical activity. It was a simple, casual game of frisbee, 3 people, just throwing a flying-disc around in circles. A throws to B, B throws to C and C throws back to A.

While playing frisbee, I noticed a few things:

Plastic frisbees can cut. I’ve got at least 5 cuts on my arms and legs.
If you throw a frisbee hard, and with deliberate strength, it wobbles (I believe this wobble was what caused Richard Feynman to come up with his quantum electrodynamics work)
Casual frisbee has no scoring system.

I’ll spare you the whinging on the cuts on my arms and legs (they’re not that bad anyways, I’m just over-dramatizing). I’m not too good with quantum electrodynamics, so I’ll also spare you any errorneous thoughts that might occur. But what was interesting was that frisbee has no scoring system. So I started wondering, if casual frisbee would be any more fun with a scoring system.

Now, there are a number of frisbee games with scoring systems (one was introduced by Kels, called frisbee soccer…), most notably, Ultimate Frisbee. But all those games have horrendously complicated rules. A casual game shouldn’t be complicated.

Continue reading A Game of Frisbee

Random Complaints

By Chewxy, on March 21st, 2008%

On Bad Data
I laughed/cried myself to sleep last night over this:

Bad Data

It was funny. And sad at the same time. I actually post this up for cfgt to see, since I’m likely to be sleeping when he wakes up.

Bleh, totally not normal (Jarque-berra proves its way too skewed and kurt – by 45 million times! LOL!). Last time I’ll open my gob and bet that the data is normal.

Okay okay.. this data looks bad from a first look, but this also tells me something – too much data isn’t good. Instead, what I did was to split up the data into 3 (going to try 5) distinct groups, and within each distinct group, the price is normal. Hah!

Continue reading Random Complaints

Bald-om

By Chewxy, on March 17th, 2008%

A few days ago, I posted a teaser picture of a female shaver. I asked my readers to guess what I was going to use it for, and offered a prize. Well, now it’s clear.

Here’s a before and after picture: