Chip's Spynotebook

You know what the blogs in this town need?

More crossover events.

Kind of like when Laverne and Shirley would visit Fonzie or Detective Munch showed up on the X-Files.

Well, the The Inaugaral Spynotebook/Bored Athenians Sci-stravaganza! is sort of like this but it is also like a science fair but it also just us wondering the following:

Bored Athenians

Do three dimes have more volume than one quarter?
This is important, because we were asked the question at work today, “Would you rather have a room full of dimes or a room full of quarters?” Theoretically, if:

V of 3dimes <= V of 1 quarter

Then you would prefer to have a room full of dimes. But if the opposite is true, then you would prefer a room full of quarters.

Ideally, you would be able to figure out the volume of one dime and the volume of one quarter, then divide each of them into the volume of the room, multiplying each result by it's respective monetary value.

But I think this might be an oversimplification of the problem. Because you still have to deal with the issue of area. Mainly, since the dime is smaller, could you fit more rows of dimes in the room. If you could shake the room around a little bit, then you might think more dimes would find their own little nook and cranny amongst the other dimes.

Anybody got an answer?

Thanks ACraw.

Spynotebook opinions?

Sheni has suggested that we all get together with a bunch of quarters and dimes and see what we can come up with.

hello out there.

I went out with Kate last night and we attempted to go to the Globe but it was all full and junk so we forced ourselves to go to Clocked! where I forced myself to have the peanut butter bacon burger (no mayo) which is as good as it sounds disturbing. Kate had something healthier and we split some tots.

We went back to my house afterwards and I did my taxes. I have used TaxACTOnline the past two years and I think it is awesome. It takes the Choose Your Own Adventure approach to taxes and just asks you a bunch of questions (Click here if you went blind or got married last year) and after about 45 minutes I was done. Now, mine are pretty simple as I just have one W-2 and a some other random number form for my student loan interest. If you are like some of the blurkers and knogglers out there and actually have a life that involves owning rental houses or buying boats, then I don’t know if this site would be good or not.

i want to test out the new fryer.

anyone have anything they need fried this weekend?

don’t say no without thinking, i bet you have SOMETHING that would be better fried.

I spent WAY too much money at Target on my way home today. I bought 5 coffee mugs of different targety colors, a travel thermos, a deep fryer thingie for making beignets next week, various grocery and pharmacy items totalling over $100. But hey, now I can have the bloggers and blurkers and knogglers (my invented word for knitting bloggers) and maybe even a knittler (one who knits and whittles) over for cafe au lait and beignets. Cause we all know THAT is gonna happen.

Nothing to report from work except I continued my quest to learn something useful (in this instance, PHP/MYSQL) by re-hooking up our linux box called GALAGA so I will have something to practice on. I think I have it installed on Mary-Kate (a linuxy emachine at home) but I would actually have to boot her up to check. I should do that.

I never ever watch Jay Leno but I did last night to see what he said about Johnny Carson. Ed McMahon, Don Rickles, and Bob Newhart were there to remember Johnny. My fave part was when Drew Carey looked at Jay Leno and said “You realize when you die, they’re not going to do this for you.” I found it funny.

One of the kids told me that he knew to no longer use his laptop in inappropriate places and suddenly the Mallrats quote “What, like the backseat of a Volkswagon?” popped into my brain and wouldn’t leave. The Inappropriateness of Total Pop Culture Recall sometimes gets in my way.