SQL Poetry

A distinguished panel of Judges at Red-Gate have decided that the limerick by Robert Tomlin …
…
Select Substring(Phone,1,3)
From authors as “Area For Me”
Where Contract<>0
and City=’Palo Alto’
Order by Contract,City

..is the winner.
As well as a prize of a book, he gets the Phil Factor ‘Crimes Against Poetry’ award.

Golden Ratio property

I came across a paper I wrote proving a cool pattern I found involving PHI=1.618... : (PHI^n + PHI^(n+1))^(1/(n+2))=PHI, for n>-2, for example: (1.618^2 + 1.618^3)^(1/4)=1.618; I Fracking love math

Metric system vs. FFF system

Metric system vs. FFF system - Length Firkin - Mass Fortnight- Time For example, the speed of light is about, 186,000 miles/second 299,792,486 meters per second And most importantly: 1.8026 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight

Mass, Energy, Inertia and Gravity

The dirty secret of why you are not quite as heavy as you think The kilogram is getting heavier, which means, correspondingly, that we are all getting ever so slightly lighter. The official kilogram, a small lump of platinum-iridium in a vault in Paris, has been slowly and somewhat mysteriously gaining weight over the course of its 137-year life. But because, philosophically speaking, the official kilogram always weighs a kilogram, the practical result is that everything else is apparently not as heavy as was thought. What people are taught in school about Mass, energy, inertia and gravity is probably good enough But even undergrad physicists aren't given the whole story. And it's because, when we focus on it, we really Do not understand the intricate complexity and relationship between these items.

An almost Prime day

Today, 1/3/13, is almost Prime. 1 is, well, 1 3 is Prime 13 is Prime 131 is Prime But, alas, 1313 is not Prime

Aliens scanning our planet

Life forms! You tiny little life forms! You precious little life forms! Where are you?