"Good morning Baltimore
And some day when I take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me!!!!"
And some day when I take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me!!!!"
I'm pretty thrilled :-)
Kat sent me this picture:
A couple links:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255187/Ruling-roost-Hen-thinks-dog-adopts-litter-puppies.html
http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/02/08/29-semi-productive-things-i-do-online/
I play this with my 2nd grader Fabian at the end of tutoring:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/attention-games/lost-in-migration
He hasn't figured out yet that the whole point is to help him be less distracted.
High score: 970.
AV Lent reflections: http://osavol.org/Lent_10/Reflections.html
Conan's daily tweets have become a daily event I eagerly await.
Favorite tweet: "If anyone's curious what I look like with a beard, it's this ?:^(0) Coincidentally, that's also my ATM pin number."
Things I need help with:
1) I'm still working on my plan to get Jack the black lab down the street. I daydream about it often. That reminds me... last week I got his tennis ball accidentally stuck in a short palm tree and he freaked out about it for a good 5 or 6 minutes until he got it down.. it was so funny and sad. Anyway, so far, the only thing I came up with is to leave a note saying I'd take him for walks and stuff... which would then obviously lead to them giving him to me. It's chafa. Any other ideas?
2) Starbucks doesn't carry Tazo Wild Sweet Orange Tea anymore. Where can I find it?
3) A Sporcle quiz got me thinking about ways the world could end. If the world stopped on its axis, would we keep moving (that's a funny image slash horrible), or would gravity keep us on earth? I could be wrong, but I think we're moving at around 1000 mph. That puts our momentum (p) at about 15000 lbs x mi/hr (depending on your mass, which is dependent on how hard you work at Team Diet) because p=mv. I'm a little fuzzy on my physics, so I'm not entirely sure how that relates to f equaling ma.
Wikipedia tells me that this is the derivative for f=ma, and p is in it. Beyond recognizing that this is calculus and that this is definitely in my General Physics I notebook because I ignored Dr. Hones when he told us we didn't need to frantically copy all derivations because we would not understand them (which we clearly did not), I don't know what to do with this. ¿Maybe you do?
So moving on. If the world stopped, our velocity would stay the same, so then the acceleration would be zero.. right? But I think wrong... because first off, that would make force zero as well and that doesn't seem right, and secondly, wouldn't our velocity slow down because there would be some effect of gravity? Gravity is 9.81 m/s^2 and that is where I stop, because I'm not in the mood to convert units or even look up anything anymore for that matter, and I'm still confused about how we can get from mass and velocity to mass and change in velocity to find force, and yeah... ni modo.
ATTENTION SMART PEOPLE: My basic question is.. is that 9.8m/s^2 enough to keep us down if our 150lbs kept going at 1000 mph if the earth stopped? I'm thinking it's probably not...
Wow, that took a lot out of me. I honestly did not anticipate getting into that much thought. But, Junior Retreat got pushed back a week and this has been a great mentally stimulating diversion :-)
