January 2006 Archives

I wanted to write about an odd little event in the sushi place out at tahoe. The short fat mexican chef (arturo) made excellent sushi and we asked when he was working so we could come back. At this point the rail thin young japanese man sidles by and comments in a thick brooklyn accent, "you've got yourself a fuckin' fan club over here". The problem is, that little annectode loses pretty much everything if you can't *hear* the brooklyn accent. How do you type an accent?

Just writing <brooklyn>yous guys</brooklyn> is unsatisfactory. So I consult monica. We try and determine how to spell "got" with a brooklyn accent.

Gawt
Gought
Gwawt
Gwt

I think I like the last one best just because it makes W a vowel and thereby redeams the scrabble dictionary entry for CRWTH (a welsh stringed instrument).

youw gwt youwrself a foowkin fAne club ova here

Your homework: please calculate.

Snowboarder A departs ramp R at a 20% angle. The top of the ramp is 5 feet off of the ground. Snowboarder A lands 17 feet from the end of the ramp (5 feet below the lip of the ramp). Given only that, what height did snowboarder A achieve? how long was snowbowarder A airborn and at what velocity did snowboarde A impact the ground?.

For bonus points, what amount of kinetic energy was transfered into snowboarder A's lead knee as it twisted and impacted the frozen slope?

But at least it was at the end of the day, right? good pictures and a whole lot of adrenaline in those last few moments.

My answers: 5.26 feet, 0.5 seconds and 27 miles per hour at a 19 degree angle. And I don't know how 35 joules of energey gets transfered to the knee but I can tell you that it hurts like hell and makes your leg really floppy.

I can't get this song/movie out of my head. So instead I'll implant it in as many heads as visit here (with flash). Stolen from a site linked from BBSpot.com:
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny


The chuck norris/indiana jones interaction is surprisingly detailed.