Archive for January, 2007

At Panera this morning

27 January 2007 - 11:26 am

“Oh, let’s sit by the fi-yah.”
“I have a confession to make. I had two glasses of wine last night. Not one. Two.”
“That’s my 35 points for the week.”
“Last week I lost a half a pound.”

It’s the last one I take exception with. Taking a point measurement of someone’s mass is about as accurate as throwing darts at a normal distribution centered around their actual mass. Weighing someone once a week is practically worthless. That 12 ounce bottle of water you drank weighed 3/4 of a pound.

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The Classic Debate

26 January 2007 - 02:18 pm

From slashdot: The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market?

I vote for my trusty TI-85 from 1992. Still going strong after 15 years. May I remind you that I took AP Calculus before they let you use calculators?

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Peepers

24 January 2007 - 09:48 pm

Dogster

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Runometer

23 January 2007 - 09:16 pm

The thing I like most about runometer.com is that it uses sparklines.

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A Scanner Darkly

21 January 2007 - 01:34 pm

I have been watching A Scanner Darkly (IMDb, Official). It is both engrossing as a story and visually. The rotoscoping is better, I think, than Waking Life. Robert Downey, Jr. is great.

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Nominal altitude inside an airplane: 7,400 feet

20 January 2007 - 10:13 pm

I’ve often wondered what the nominal altitude in an airplane is. You know - you are flying along at 36,000 feet, but what is the altitude inside the airplane. Being in possession of a GPS with a barometric altimeter, I was finally able to find out. The answer is about 7,400 feet.

I assume that they keep the partial pressure of oxygen close to the sea level value of ~20%, lest passengers get light headed.

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