Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Price of Oil

Oil
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Whichever. Either way, it won't be fun.


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Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Comedy Team of the Beast

Six Six Six
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Too many comics spoil the act.


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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

I Dreamed Last Night . . . .

Indy & Mars
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Changing channels is the only way you'll make it to Mars if you're only going 200 mph.
You'll never make escape velocity.



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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Indy Party

Indy Week Continues

Indy Party
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Which begs the question: Who is the number 1 driver?


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Friday, May 23, 2008

Midnight Movie

Indy Week Continues

midnightmovie
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Sure, I could wait for the Saturday matinee, but would that be as much fun??


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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Indiana Jones and the All-Time Top 50

Indiana Jones has an opportunity to pull off an amusing co-incidence in the coming weeks.

If you check out the All-time Box Office gross for the U.S. at the Internet Movie Database, you will see that Twister currently resides at number 50. Iron Man only needs to take in another $14 million or so to knock it out.

After that, we can expect Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to join one of its predecessors in the Top 50. Except that it can't. When the new movie makes the $242 million it needs to make the list (and you know that it will), it will have the distinction of being the film that knocks Raiders of the Lost Ark off of the list.

Just a little trivia that might be useful when doing my Summer Movie Math in class.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Trigonometry Jones and the Temple of Duran


trigger04
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
The 80s are back! ... and all the players are approaching their 80s as well.


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Monday, May 19, 2008

Noah's Ark, Chapter 2


noah's box
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Roughly 18 inches by 18 inches by 18 inches or thereabouts.


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Saturday, May 17, 2008

The 0'Factor, episode 6


ofactor06
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Remember, she's a "uniter" not a "divider". How about a "decider"?


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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Square


allswaure
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
I'm usually more insulted when people want to borrow money, not when they pay me back.



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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Pre-School Algebra


prealgebra
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Today's (x, why?) was brought to you by the numbers and letters in 3x2.



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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Reflection Over the X-Axis


mom
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Happy Mother's Day!
(I hope you didn't get your Mom something as lame as this.)


What were you expecting? A "Your Mom" joke?


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Friday, May 09, 2008

Mersenne


mersenne
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Be a part of the 45th Mersenne. Ten million digits can't be wrong.



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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Qwerty Smileys


smileys
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"Qwer-key smileys" might be more accurate.


I'm thinking that this one could have used a "This smiley went 'wee-wee-wee!' all the way home!"


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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Rant: CVS Pharmacy Management

Sorry to hijack the blog, but I had to get something off my chest.

Question: If you managed a CVS store, wouldn't you want to have someone who knew something about photography working behind your photo counter? And if you were the manager, wouldn't you want to know something about the competition in your neighborhood, especially if you were trying to attract customers to your store?

Apparently, the answers to both these questions is Not Particularly.

Let me paint you a picture: I brought about 20 4 X 6 photos of family members to CVS to have copies made. I returned a few hours later to retrieve them and that's when the fun began. And by "fun" I, of course, mean "nerve-shaking frustration".

I was told by the young man who worked at the photo department that he couldn't make copies of some of the pictures. My first thought was that something had happened to the photos. But no! The truth was far stranger.

He then told me that some of the photos were copyrighted and could not be reprinted. Hello??? These were photos of my family, taken by me or members of my family. What was he talking about?

The worker flipped over the photos and showed me that some of them said:
Genovese
Protected by 3M Scotchguard

(and a date from 1995)


"Um, excuse me. That's not a copyright. That's a notice from the store where the photos were printed."

He protested, "No, it says that these photos are protected."

Okay, so maybe a teenager making minimum wage (or close to it), who may never have seen a real roll of film or negative in his life, doesn't know the difference between protecting an image and protecting a piece of paper with a pretty picture of a little girl and her mother on it.

After a back and forth, he finally went to ask his manager (which I would've insisted on sooner or later anyway). After a moment, the manager SHOOK HIS HEAD IN AGREEMENT!!

The manager told me that the pictures were protected and there was nothing that he could do. He even admitted that he had know idea what "Genovese" nor "Scotchguard" were, but he knew that 3M was "protecting" that picture. By the way, the store does sell 3M Scotch Tape and other items.

I told him that "Genovese" was the former name of his competition. It was the drugstore two blocks away that was bought out by Rite-Aid, and, eventually, when I was exhausted and after he started taking an attitude with me, the customer, that's exactly where I wound up to make the copies. They cost a little more, but they made them without a problem.

I believe the copies are even protected by Scotchguard.

Monday, May 05, 2008

What's a Parabola?


parabola
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo. Have a parabola.
(Sad to say ... this one actually happened.)
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Post links to (x, why?) reviews here

Have you seen a webcomic review of (x, why?)?

If so, post a link to it here, please.

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Aim High!


irfours
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
The first person I show this one to wanted to know why they were saluting while they were flying the plane...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Twin and Mersenne Primes

Sometimes I need to do some math that's above my students' levels, just for the sake of my own sanity. So sometimes I'll just ponder a puzzle and investigate it to see if I can find an answer. This is one of those times.

Twin primes are any two prime numbers that have a difference of two, such as 3 and 5 or 29 and 31.

Mersenne primes are prime numbers that are one less than a power of 2. In other words, they can be represented by the expression (2^p)-1, where p is a prime number. Examples include 3, 7, 31, etc.

You may have noticed that 3 is in both examples listed above. This brings the question:

Can you find another Mersenne prime that is
the smaller of two Twin Primes?

-- OR --

Can you explain why no other examples exist?

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Happy Numbers


happynumber
(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.
Seven and Ten are "happy". Six is just glad.
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