This time around on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia, I present to you the Mpemba Effect. I been told many times that the Mpemba Effect actually existed. However, nobody was ever able to give me the name of it, they just told me that it was true. It goes against everything (which is very little, mind you) I know about thermodynamics so I have always blown it off as urban legend.
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Birthday Bash
Lots of fun birthday stuff over the past couple of weeks.
The last week in September was the perfect time to go to Elitches. Everybody thinks it’s closed because it only runs on the weekends and none of their Halloween advertising has started yet. Tickets are also extra cheap if you buy them at Safweay. A bunch of us rode roller coasters for five hours in a effort to reclaim our youth. We rode nothing but roller coasters. We rode every single one of them, and most of them twice. We never stood in line for longer than three minutes and always had our choice of carts. I prefer the back. Ride stats are after the jump. Afterwards we hit up Brothers Bar for some birthday drinks and such.
Last weekend I was able to round up a bunch of free tickets to Comedy Works to see Dov Davidoff (youtube link) for another birthday party. He was really funny. His demeanor was a little hard to get used to. He sort of reminded me of my brother with a few cocktails in him. Very funny. And a great evening overall.
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Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
RefrigeratorI thought that was funny
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I wish I could take credit
for that, but I can’tBacon scented candles.
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Bacon = Freedom; Lettuce = Love; Tomato = PassionThis week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is Bacon Number. The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The computation of a Bacon number N for X is a “shortest path” algorithm. It involves computing the Bacon number for all film actors who X has acted with. Notably Bacon is not the most linkable actor. That honor goes to Rod Steiger. The average Steiger number in the acting community is 2.679. By contrast, the average Bacon number is 2.946.
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