Megs:
Wow, you're being really productive this summer. Yay, Work Ethic!! It's no wonder you got top student in, like, 75% (3/4) papers for Part II Pharm!!!
Just had to blurt that out to the universe :D *clapclapclap*
Since my holiday just consists of wandering around and eating, repeatedly, I'll just post about something frivolous that I came up with two days ago.
Once, quite a while back, I watched this TV game show in Taiwan where there featured a little boy who, upon given any date of any given year, could tell you what day of the week it was. And everybody said Wow! and OMG and all that sort of thing, and wondered how the hell he managed to memorise all the dates in the history of time, and their days.
I like scrolling through the calendar on my phone. In fact I love holding the the Up, or Down button and watching the weeks fly past, forward into 2014 or back to 2006, for no particular reason. There's something beautiful about time. No, scrap it, there is everything beautiful about time. I love Time traveler's themes, as found in Chrono Trigger, and the Time Traveler's Wife, etc etc. I think History is ugly and macabre, and grand and beautiful. I like marvelling at the fact that I've only been alive for 7522 days, and, hopefully, counting.
(Note: this is a pretty fun website. I came across it when I was trying to figure out the age difference between myself and someone I had a crush on a while ago. Not that it was a big difference, I was just curious, and anyway shut up:
Calculating the Duration between Two Dates)
ANYWAY, I started this blog post to announce that I worked out how the freaky talented kid boy did it. At the time I just thought it was because he was seriously smart, and maybe autistic. It actually doesn't require you to memorise all the dates to the days of the week there have ever been.
What you do is:
1. Work out what the first day of the year was (e.g, 1st of Jan 2011 this year was a Saturday).
2. Memorise this sequence: 1, 5, 5, 2, 7, 4, 2, 6, 3, 5, 3, 1.
This is the sequence of Dates in all the months (January, Febuary, March, etc) on which the first Saturday will land on. For example, the first Saturday of May will land on the 7th this year.
3. Then you can figure out all the Saturdays of the given week, by just adding 7 onto the given date in Step 2. (Ergo: Saturdays in Feb will land on the 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th.)
4. Then you can work out whatever the day of the week a given date is, by just counting from the closest Saturday.
Note that the sequence in #2 is also different, for every Leap Year. Uh... I'll memorise that later. Actually you can just subtract 1 for all the months after Feburary.
This is handy, if, say, you want to plan a party on a specific day but don't have a calendar nearby. You could use your phone, I guess. Note: I can't tell you what the day it was on, like, the 5th of August 1345. I have to know the date of 1/1/1345 to do that. But it doesn't matter. All of this is frivolous. You can probably whip out your phone and find the calendar app in the time it takes for me to process Step 2, but what the hey. It's entertaining.
Your birthday, incidentally, lands on a Monday this year. :D
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Showing posts with label frivolous. Show all posts
Friday, 4 February 2011
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Tag! You're it
Megs:
I, being bored, happened to be scrolling through all the labels we've ever tagged the posts on this blog with. Quite interesting, really! There aren't that many repeats - you'd think there would be.
Frivolous has only ever been used once. huh.
Noticed these two in amusing succession:
violas get special treatment (1)
violist might as well be handicapped (1)
I, being bored, happened to be scrolling through all the labels we've ever tagged the posts on this blog with. Quite interesting, really! There aren't that many repeats - you'd think there would be.
Frivolous has only ever been used once. huh.
Noticed these two in amusing succession:
violas get special treatment (1)
violist might as well be handicapped (1)
Also, a lot of them are utterly random and make you really wonder, wtf? Such as:
bad egg (1)
Megan is nuts (1)
Wil is imaginary (1)
donkeys (1)
don't read me (1)
guinea pig (1)
The most used is holidays, with four tags. Good to know we celebrate the important things with repeated mentions!
The full list:
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Gold Class, baby!
Megs:
Woooo, got waited on hand and foot at Sky City Cinemas this afternoon. Well, I could have, if I pressed the "GTFOver here button", and summon the waiters for food, but I didn't. The seats were excellent. Automatic Reclinable La-Z boyish chairs ftw. Physics can be such a pain in the patella, but it leads to robots the shape of chairs we can bend/straighten to our will. Muahhaha.
At either rate, the theatre was much better than the movie itself, by far. We watched New Moon. I'm not one to dislike something just because it's a fad; I've attempted to read Twilight twice (and failed to complete it). But New Moon is boring, with the most cliched of dialogues exchanged between an emotionally dependent moody teenager and her boys who can't afford shirts/don't exist. Dude, people don't say things like that in real life, they say that in every old movie that's ever been made. -_-
They served Butter Chicken on the Gold Class menu though :D I didn't have it this time, but now I know I will gladly go back. For a different movie. They should, though, train their waiters better in the art of fine dining! This lady had coke spilt all over her and all this waitress did was grab a cloth and say, "Do you wanna move to that seat?" Friv-o-LOUS. Honestly, WWSD?! (Like WWJD, but with Spongebob.)
My mother has now a credible theory for my bout of throwing up last night. FOOD POISONING. :( She forgot to clean the lid of the cooker before making rice.
Woooo, got waited on hand and foot at Sky City Cinemas this afternoon. Well, I could have, if I pressed the "GTFOver here button", and summon the waiters for food, but I didn't. The seats were excellent. Automatic Reclinable La-Z boyish chairs ftw. Physics can be such a pain in the patella, but it leads to robots the shape of chairs we can bend/straighten to our will. Muahhaha.
At either rate, the theatre was much better than the movie itself, by far. We watched New Moon. I'm not one to dislike something just because it's a fad; I've attempted to read Twilight twice (and failed to complete it). But New Moon is boring, with the most cliched of dialogues exchanged between an emotionally dependent moody teenager and her boys who can't afford shirts/don't exist. Dude, people don't say things like that in real life, they say that in every old movie that's ever been made. -_-
They served Butter Chicken on the Gold Class menu though :D I didn't have it this time, but now I know I will gladly go back. For a different movie. They should, though, train their waiters better in the art of fine dining! This lady had coke spilt all over her and all this waitress did was grab a cloth and say, "Do you wanna move to that seat?" Friv-o-LOUS. Honestly, WWSD?! (Like WWJD, but with Spongebob.)
My mother has now a credible theory for my bout of throwing up last night. FOOD POISONING. :( She forgot to clean the lid of the cooker before making rice.
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