OT: The Thread About Nothing Part 190: Terrorists, Wild Trout, Microbeers, and Stuff

[DatBoyJPP]

I got my Red Bull internship literally the last day before I left campus. **** works out in the end

 

[Rhodes 81]

Hows internship search been going?

I've been working on the same thing and I'm sure you are similarly as stressed as I am when it comes to worrying about that and exams coming up

hello my friend...

speaking of cheese, i ate entirely too much of that today

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Wouldn't a larger surface area on a bigger cube make it melt faster in relative terms? It only lasts longer because it is bigger.

Let's see what the dirty minds in here can do with that one.

A small office debate broke out over this yesterday. It was dunderhead me with business degree vs. chemical engineer and patent attorney. I wielded only logic and google and he had all the math and equations. It was me saying a cube HAS to have more surface area than a sphere of the same volume and thus have a less efficient cooling ability than a sphere but he seemed to think a sphere had more surface area. After a 10 minutes exercise in trying to balance volume formulas and compare a volume of 8 oz. he proclaimed that at a certain size the sphere has more surface area and not believing the relationship could possibly NOT be constant given an equal volume I googled it and won. A cube has 38% more surface area than a sphere of equal volume.

SA of a sphere: 4πr²
SA of a cube: 6x²

4πr² = 6x²
r²/x² = 6 / 4π
(r/x)² = 3 / 2π
r/x = (3 / 2π)^0.5

Volume of a sphere: 4/3 πr³
Volume of a cube: x³
Find the ratio meaning (4/3 πr³)/x³
= (4π/3)(r³/x³)
= (4π/3)(r/x)³
= (4π/3)(3 / 2π)^1.5
= (2²π/3)[3^1.5 / (2^1.5)(π^1.5)]
= √2√3 / √π
= √(6/π)
≈1.38

After all that I read some http://ask.metafilter.com/110450/Small-Ice-vs-Big-Ice

I love the theoretical arguments vs. real world situations. The guys serving the drinks know the reality of the situation and that's big ice is better (unless you want the ice to melt and water down the drink or take up the most space to use less liquor - why cheap fast food uses crushed ice and fills the cup).

Small cubes will have more total surface area and thus cool the liquid faster but also melt much faster. So for a 8 oz of small cubs vs. one large 8 oz cube, the large cube lasts longer simply on surface area alone. This is also why the sphere is better than the cube - less surface area and maximum efficiency of the volume due to something called isoperimetric inequality. I wanted to work critical mass in there somehow but couldn't see how it made sense.

 

[Cowbell232]

Is it bad when Facebook suggests Woodford Reserve as pages you might like?

No. It's delicious. Good advice.

Here I am.

And here I am going.

Doppler effect Halloween costume?

Wouldn't a larger surface area on a bigger cube make it melt faster in relative terms? It only lasts longer because it is bigger.

I'm glad RG has the fancy math, because I just know what I know from experience,

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I'm glad RG has the fancy math, because I just know what I know from experience,

I am going to just toss out isoperimetric inequality like a mic drop whenever any math debate come up and walk out of the room like I just ended the discussion.

 

[Jersey Man]

Hows internship search been going?

I've been working on the same thing and I'm sure you are similarly as stressed as I am when it comes to worrying about that and exams coming up

Slow and painful so far. I've so far had three interviews at three different places.

Exams and final projects have been ruling my life. You don't understand how pissed I was to miss last Saturdays game. I made sure my group knew what I was missing to be there to help out

 

[Cowbell232]

I am going to just toss out isoperimetric inequality like a mic drop whenever any math debate come up and walk out of the room like I just ended the discussion.

That's a lotta big words... You gotta be right!

 

[JimEIV]

I really like working from home.

 

[MartyOwns]

late post is late, but

If you mean "boterletter" (sometimes called "banketletter"), then yes, I make those around the holidays. Basically almond paste wrapped in puffed pastry shell, shaped into letters. Something like a million calories a serving.

We also do "oliebollen" on New Year's Eve (dutch tradition) -- basically fried doughballs, sometimes with apple or currants mixed in, sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Speculaas cookies (spiced cookies, typically shaped like windmills) are also good around Sinterklaas Day.

We try to keep as many Dutch traditions going as possible.

YES. the almond ones. her mom makes them every christmas, and they are unbleepinreal..

 

[Jersey Man]

I really like working from home.

Need an intern at your home office?

 

[MartyOwns]

Had to get fingerprinted and was surprised to learn they dont use ink anymore (apparently that ended about 11 or 12 years ago).

It's like CSI now.

EDIT: Photo not BG's hand

may god strike me dead if im lying- when they took my new drivers license photo last year, they didn’t use a Daguerreotype! mind=blown

 

[JimEIV]

Need an intern at your home office?

I missed the home office part...

 

[Richer's Ghost]

part of me thinks this is a total waste of money (if it comes to market fully)

the other part thinks it would be totally cool

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/25/insert-coin-lightpack/#continued
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ambient-backlight-for-your-displays?ref=email

 

[AfroThunder396]

Wouldn't a larger surface area on a bigger cube make it melt faster in relative terms? It only lasts longer because it is bigger.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's not raw SA that influences reaction times, it's the SA:Volume ratio.

 

[BenedictGomez]

189+ TANs

This melting thing, most boring subject ever covered?

 

[Richer's Ghost]

189+ TANs

This melting thing, most boring subject ever covered?

you must be a fan of wrestling

 

[BenedictGomez]

But really, who DOESNT commonly travel back and forth from America to Cuba with human remains?

http://www.local10.com/news/possibl...fll/-/1717324/19879588/-/ki61ldz/-/index.html

 

[Wingman77]

Slow and painful so far. I've so far had three interviews at three different places.

Exams and final projects have been ruling my life. You don't understand how pissed I was to miss last Saturdays game. I made sure my group knew what I was missing to be there to help out

Yea I hear you on all ends there

Your group better have been satisfied with your dedication and cut you some slack

part of me thinks this is a total waste of money (if it comes to market fully)

the other part thinks it would be totally cool

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/25/insert-coin-lightpack/#continued
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ambient-backlight-for-your-displays?ref=email

It's not bad, one of my friends installed his own because he's good w that stuff and when we go over to watch the Devils/Yankees/Giants/etc, he makes it the colors of the team we're rooting for

 

[BenedictGomez]

you must be a fan of wrestling

Loathe it.

I do like bass fishing though.

 

[JimEIV]

I have a pact with some friends that the Day Castro dies we are going to Cuba to fish and party....Most of them have been there already I haven't...I've been waiting for this to happen since 2004.

 

[JimEIV]

Does this not sound like heaven?

Fly fishing in Cuba is far different from other destinations in the Caribbean. Only in recent years has this flats fishery been developed, and you are fishing waters that have not seen sport fishing for nearly fifty years. Cuba has given these pristine areas protection as Cuban National Marine Parks, where no commercial fishermen in our fishing destinations is allowed other than for lobster. Flats fish like Tarpon, Permit, Bonefish, Snook, Mutton Snapper, Barracuda, and a variety of Jacks are found in incredible numbers and since the fishing pressure is so light in these areas the fish rarely encounter sport fishermen and are unusually easy to catch.

Think about a place where you can fish more than 100 miles of flats without seeing another fisherman, a place where the flats fishing is so good that you can catch seven species of fish in one day, a place where big bonefish run toward your fly when it hits the water too hard, rather than streaking off the flat in the other direction, a place where you have a legitimate chance for a grand slam every day of the year, a place where big permit are as plentiful as they were in the Florida Keys 30 years ago, a place where you can wade miles of white-sand flats in your bare feet for big bonefish, a place where you'll find enough big tarpon, jacks, 'cudas, and sharks on the flats to wear you out!

Despite heavy commercial fishing pressure before the ban, Cubas remote archipelagos have remained unspoiled. Because they are often situated from 50 to 100 miles off the Cuban coast and are not easily visited, even by the Cuban lobster fishermen. With the tutelage of several famous guides and anglers, the Cubans have become excellent guides and good fly fishermen. Give them a fly rod and they'll double-haul a 100-foot cast, or show you just how to work a fly to make bonefish charge and inhale it. They spot fish as well as any of the Caribbean’s best guides and direct your casts from the poling platform. These guides enjoy enthusiastic anglers and love to work long days, allowing you to fish as hard as you want. A remarkable contrast to many other destinations or lodges where you are often limited to six or eight hours on the water, including your running time. In Avalon’s destinations, there is never any limitation on gas used or distances run in the day. If you want to get out early and fish to dark, you can do it! But the fishing is normally so good and so intense that you’ll be ready to quit in time to be back for
cocktails.

 

[Cowbell232]

I have a pact with some friends that the Day Castro dies we are going to Cuba to fish and party....Most of them have been there already I haven't...I've been waiting for this to happen since 2004.

I'm with your friends. I've been saying that same thing for a few years.

My cousin went a couple years back. The stories were amazing.

 

[JimEIV]

I'm with your friends. I've been saying that same thing for a few years.

My cousin went a couple years back. The stories were amazing.

From what I hear it is very tourist friendly.

 

[Cowbell232]

For what I hear it is very tourist friendly.

This was some time ago now, int he late 90s or early 2000's. Definitely pre-9/11 in terms of security and what not.

Not only is it tourist friendly, but apparently if you're willing to share what you have the people will be willing to share what they have. Like if you buy a bottle of liquor, someone else will buy a different one and you'll just have a ton of fun. The places she went apparently (mostly in Havana, AFAIK) were just very communal with their lives. I know that's really what communism is about, but I mean this in a different way.

 

[JimEIV]

This was some time ago now, int he late 90s or early 2000's. Definitely pre-9/11 in terms of security and what not.

Not only is it tourist friendly, but apparently if you're willing to share what you have the people will be willing to share what they have. Like if you buy a bottle of liquor, someone else will buy a different one and you'll just have a ton of fun. The places she went apparently (mostly in Havana, AFAIK) were just very communal with their lives. I know that's really what communism is about, but I mean this in a different way.

Completely understand...

I've heard similar things about random people you don't know joining your table for dinner and partying all night. Sounds like an amazing place.