http://www.peepresearch.org/index.html
I know that easter was three days ago, but can't we all still enjoy watching Peeps dissolve in Phenol?
Cheers,
SP
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
best website ever
Dudes,
My friend Bernhard (a.k.a. The German) sent me this from Deutschland.
http://peter.sprangers.youaremighty.com/
Sooo cool.
My friend Bernhard (a.k.a. The German) sent me this from Deutschland.
http://peter.sprangers.youaremighty.com/
Sooo cool.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Happy Easter!!!
What better way to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ than by doing statistics while wearing bunny ears.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
Maybe I'm overestimating my blog's popularity...but I was expecting a lot more than two Fibonacci poems! Thanks to the creative individuals who posted. I'm guessing the second one was Johnsoep@stolaf.edu?
Anyway, please post more!!!!
I love you all.
Anyway, please post more!!!!
I love you all.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Fibs
Check this out!
http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-fibbery.html
Poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence? Can you think of anything that would excite me more? No.
For those of you not familiar with old Fibonacci, he is most famous for a recursive arithmetic sequence that was inspired by rabbit breeding (i kid you not). You set the first value=0 and the second value =1 then any number in the sequence is defined as the sum of the previous two values in the sequence (i.e. recursively defined). so it goes
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...
you can also set the first two values to 1 and 1 and it'll work out the same way (obviously). So here's what I want, I want you all to write poems and post them here. they must be of the form
1 syllable
1 syllable
2 syllables
3 syllables
5 syllables
8 syllables
like a haiku, only different.
The fibonacci sequence is truly a remarkable thing because it shows up a lot in naturally occuring phenomena. For instance, If we take the ratio of two successive numbers in Fibonacci's series, and we divide each by the number before it, the sequence converges to the golden ratio, Phi=1.618034. The spines around a pineapple follow the Fibonacci sequence as do the seeds in a sunflower. Pretty cool if you ask me.
so here's my contribution:
math
poems
so hot
so sexy
build the foundation
of transcendent joyous rapture
o.k. you guys can do better. post away!!!!
http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-fibbery.html
Poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence? Can you think of anything that would excite me more? No.
For those of you not familiar with old Fibonacci, he is most famous for a recursive arithmetic sequence that was inspired by rabbit breeding (i kid you not). You set the first value=0 and the second value =1 then any number in the sequence is defined as the sum of the previous two values in the sequence (i.e. recursively defined). so it goes
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...
you can also set the first two values to 1 and 1 and it'll work out the same way (obviously). So here's what I want, I want you all to write poems and post them here. they must be of the form
1 syllable
1 syllable
2 syllables
3 syllables
5 syllables
8 syllables
like a haiku, only different.
The fibonacci sequence is truly a remarkable thing because it shows up a lot in naturally occuring phenomena. For instance, If we take the ratio of two successive numbers in Fibonacci's series, and we divide each by the number before it, the sequence converges to the golden ratio, Phi=1.618034. The spines around a pineapple follow the Fibonacci sequence as do the seeds in a sunflower. Pretty cool if you ask me.
so here's my contribution:
math
poems
so hot
so sexy
build the foundation
of transcendent joyous rapture
o.k. you guys can do better. post away!!!!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Saturday, April 01, 2006
On Cambodia
These are a few of the children of the PEPY school. These are the faces I will never forget. These are the individuals who now have the chance to receive an education thanks to the efforts of my friends Greta and Daniela.
For the past 4 or 5 months I have been helping these women by maintaining their website (www.pepy.org). I have been doing this as a favor for Greta and, honestly, while working on the projects that came down the pike, I never really thought about what the PEPY Ride was doing. In my defense, it's difficult to think of a school in a place you have never been and mentally picture the children of a race you have never seen. But when the opportunity arose for me to visit this foreign land, I jumped at the chance.
Here are some pictures:
The walkway to the temple of Angkor Wat.
Preah Neak Pean
Preah Khan
Beng Mealea
Our unofficial guide through Beng Mealea
These are a few of my 200+ photos. These were all from the three days we spent "templing" outside of Siem Reap. The last night I spent in Cambodia I went to a traditional Khmer wedding. Actually, it was the third and last day of a traditional Khmer wedding. The third day is dedicated to eating, drinking, dancing, and drinking. I didn't take my camera with but I'm trying to get some pictures that Kristian (one of the PEPY Riders) took. The hostess of our guesthouse (http://www.earthwalkers.no/) was invited to the wedding and was instructed to bring all her western friends along. The bride and groom got a real kick out of the 12 or so white people who came to the wedding. In our group there were Norwegians, Canadians, Americans, and a Briton. Initially, we drew many furtive glances, but by the end of the night, strangers were walking up to our table to play their drinking games with us. And if the Norwegians I met in Cambodia were in any way representative of the general population of Norway, then it is truly a blessed land...and my next vacation will be to Oslo.
I'll leave it as this for now. In my next post I hope to write something about the Khmer (cambodian) people and my experiences with them as a whole.
Thanks for reading.
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