Google now works as a calculator.
Google even allows you to enter your calculations as words:
four cubed plus two
two to the power of forty-two (the largest power of two before resorting to standard form)
fifteen factorial (largest word factorial)
Google likes complex numbers:
e^(pi*i) +1
Google knows the value of:
phi
Google will do conversions:
one ton in tonnes
square root of a baker’s dozen times the speed of light in parsecs per fortnight
etc.
What better way to spend the summer than experimenting with your Antony Worrall Thompson blender?
This is my favourite smoothie of the year so far.
Ingredients
One large, really, really ripe mango
One large peach
A fistful of strawberries
A few cubes of ice
Method
Slice the mango over the blender (so as not to lose the juices, which drip like blood from a wound) and stir. Slice the peach, add and stir. Chuck in the strawberries and ice and liquidize the lot.
Pour and drink in large gulps. Yummy.
I built my new PC today. I ordered the bits yesterday afternoon from dabs.com, and was pleasantly surprised when the package arrived at 7.30 this morning. Great service!
I made a mug of tea, grounded myself, and got to work. All went well and then, within an hour of bootup, I was hit by the Blaster worm. All sorted now, hopefully.
Some photos:
the whole thing is smaller than a pencil
mrpayne.com loads in 0.67 seconds
Harvested from Google…
Meat Loaf is the Dylan of the Seventies, the real peoples’ populist Rocky type Dylan, not some twit like Elvis Costello.
Elvis Costello is more like the Bob Dylan of punk.
Otis Redding is the Bob Dylan of soul.
Kurt Cobain is the Dylan of his time.
Beck is the Bob Dylan of my generation.
Alice Cooper is the Bob Dylan of nastiness.
Leonard Cohen is the Bob Dylan of Canada.
Chuck D (of Public Enemy) is the Bob Dylan of rap.
Ryan Adams is the Bob Dylan of alt-country.
Stephen Wolfram is the Bob Dylan of physics.
Richard Pryor is the Bob Dylan of comedy.
Yahoo! was the Bob Dylan of the Net.
Not every songwriter is trying to be Dylan, or is the new Dylan, or is even remotely influenced by Dylan. Who is Dylan anyway?
Some ideas I harvested from Google…..
As for the actual process of developing and prototyping a trumpet, Olson tells us� It’s like making sausages � you don’t necessarily want to see it being done.
And the way I see it, making a wedding is like making sausages: the fewer questions you ask about the process, the better off you will be.
Making television is like making sausages: There are very few opportunities for mistakes.
At newspapers sports writing is like making sausages - they just grind it out.
Like making sausages, union organizing is not for the squeamish.
It is an old adage that making laws is like making sausages, but when it comes to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, it appears increasingly that the ingredients were particularly rancid.
And one for the French….
C’est un peu comme faire des saucisses. On ne devrait jamais savoir comment elles sont fabriquées
I’ve just read about this on the BBC website.
QCA, the UK exam regulators, say the changes will make the maths A level more manageable for students, but deny that it will be easier. But the primary reason for the review was because students found the course too difficult - so it will be easier.
The article states that ‘there is more pure maths in the syllabus’ - by pure maths they simply mean revision of the algebra and trigonometry that students did not understand at GCSE level.
I discovered the Google Dance today.
There are apparently six different data centers (centres) and your results will depend on which one you are routed to. It seems that the place to search for the most up-to-date results is www-cw.google.com.
I got my highest individual score of the tour last night. Quite pleased with that.
Added up my personal Dylan concert stats the other day:
Concerts attended: 15
Total songs heard: 264
Distinct songs heard: 84
(Details of the songs are below………..)
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Wow! My team for Dylanpool, No Hay Banda, got the joint top score in last night’s concert. I am very happy!
Congratulations to the other team members: rhymney, AccidentalMartyr, foreign bib, CC Getty.
I got my tickets today. I’ll only be going to two this year (too much of nothing can make a man feel ill at ease).
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