Monthly Archives: August 2009

Life Expectancy Return Calculations

Number of hours exercised must equal the number of extra years lived to make back the time investment in the exercise. To be a worthwhile investment, amount of time spent exercising must be less than the number of extra years … Continue reading

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New Yahoo! Search Engine Results Page

Yahoo! rolled out a cool new search engine results page. I have to say, such a drastic change was long overdue for search engines. Interestingly enough it has a few of the elements I thought could be useful when I … Continue reading

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Interesting

To keep my mind off of the mass of physics and organic chemistry I have to do, more writing to keep my mind off things and delay the inevitable. There was a very interesting discussion on NPR the other day … Continue reading

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Bean Breeding

Selectively breed beans for maximum size until x(?) generations later, they are tomato sized super beans so large that a couple could be a meal. Would be very cool. No idea how many generations it would take. But once I … Continue reading

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The Joy Of Organic Chemistry

Organic chemistry. Oh joy. It’s especially difficult since I’ve forgotten everything I learned in chemistry. Arrhenius acids and bases, Lewis structures, acid base pairs, all of it gone when I vomited the facts onto the final exams. Now I have … Continue reading

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Real Time Strategy Expansion Flowchart

Because the first strike can easily mean a win for either side, determining the best ways to allocate the resources is important. The top players are skilled simply because they have fine tuned it to a point. In all RTSs, … Continue reading

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The College Conjecture

There must be a reason all (most) great ideas seem to come from kids in college. The atmosphere is stressful, hellish, overwhelming. At the end of the day, you’re just exhausted. But this in turn, makes everything else seem like … Continue reading

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Reminder To Self: No Meebo Chatrooms

I use Meebo simply because it’s a webapp, and won’t be slowing down my computer. For some strange reason, Meebo thought it would be a brilliant idea to make chatlogs public to everyone. A simple search with some keywords will … Continue reading

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Tired Of It

Once again I’ve been told that "money does not buy health and happiness". I hear this way too many times. It is illogical to think that money does not buy happiness. Money buys both health and happiness. Money buys everything, … Continue reading

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