Re: Observations on a Bad Week

In article <_m_Gj.3305$Xl2.2635@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Kim <darwinexceptiontakethisout@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 1. So today I finally got my computer back. Thank ****ing God. I had a 
> broken fan housing - not a broken fan - a broken fan *housing*. Lazy 
> computer guy says this is exceedingly common - even here in Malone he
has 
> fixed "15 or 16" broken fan housings in the last few years. "Very common

> with that processor" - according to him.
> 
> I don't believe him.
> 
> But what the **** ever. It's fixed.

Yeah, until it craps out in the same fa****on and you figure out he found
that and assigned it the blame...

> 2. So I'm doing our New York State tax returns and it asked me if I had
any 
> income related to "Nazi Persecution". Is that common on all state tax 
> returns? Since when? Do a lot of people get income from that? I saw one
of 
> those skinhead kids walking through the mall one time. Can I get paid
for 
> that?

I think that'd be _Neonazi_ persecution.  IANeitherANYerNorALawmaker,
but my money's on those German dudes in the early 20thC.

> 4. Lame Censoring of the Week: One of those knock off American Idol
shows 
> has a teen singing competition. One of the girls sang "Lady Marmalade"
and 
> instead of singing "Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir", she sang
"Voulez 
> vous chantez avec moi ce soir." I think that makes the whole song lose
it's 
> meaning.

But hey, gutting something in order to make the presentation be
lowest-common-denominator o-tay is SOP.

> 5. From the "I *Must* be getting old" department: I wasn't aware until
this 
> week what a "Bromance" was.

I still don't know.  I've heard of a "bromide", both in the literary and
chemical senses, but not that.  Help?

> 6. SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY:
> 
> The projected sales volume of a video game cartridge is given by the 
> function s (p) = 3000/2p+a,  where s is the number of cartridges sold,
in 
> thousands; p is the price per cartridge, in dollars; and a is a
constant. If 
> according to the projections, 100,000 cartridges are sold at $10 per 
> cartridge, how many cartridges will be sold at $20 per cartridge?
> 
>      (A)  20,000
>      (B)  50,000
>      (C)  60,000
>      (D)  150,000
>      (E)  200,000

             3000
OK.  s(10) = ---- + a
             2*10

             3000
           = ---- + a
              20
          
           = 150 + a = 100000

             a       = 100000 - 150

                     = 99850

             3000
     s(20) = ---- + 99850
             2*20

             3000
           = ---- + 99850
              40
        
           = 75 + 99850
           
     s(20) =  99925 which I don't see among the answers.  Are you sure
you copied the problem correctly?

> 7. The next thing I want to try is spinning my own yarn. I figure that 
> there's enough goat and sheep and alpacas and stuff around here that I 
> should be able to find someone willing to give me a little bit of hair
to 
> try out. I can't figure out though how sheep fur - which is relatively 
> short - is made into long strands of yarn. I mean, my own hair is pretty

> long, but I still don't see how twisting a few strands of it together
would 
> make a skein of yarn. How exactly does that work?

It might be like this:

1 ---------   4 ----------
    2 ----------   5 ----------
         3 ----------   6 ----------

etc, with more strands, and less regular.

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