Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
The Opgenorth Constant was derived in order to explain why the mark you received should be a 10/10. The principles are sound when drunk, but otherwise fails all tests of sober math.
If your mark is A, and the highest possible mark is B, then Aomicron = Bomicron, where omicron is the Opgenorth Constant. Thus, your mark A=B. QED.
Way back a bunch of years ago, when we were all undergrads, a lot of time was spent up at RATT. Being an eclectic collection of physicist, engineering and biologist wanna-bes, it was kind of natural for us to come up with theories during our periods of inebriation. Most of these theories made perfect sense when we were developing them at the time (lots of weird things people do while drunk make sense only to them).
I bring you a number of these scientific principles resurrected from the WayBack Machine and posted here for posterity (also because Tom has taken the wiki versions of these pages down and has never put them back up).
Joe’s Drunkeness Exclusion Principle
You can only know what you’re doing and where you are to a finite precision.
You can know what you’re doing, but you won’t kow where you are
OR
You can know where you are but you won’t know what you’re doing
OR
On the rare occasion you do know where you are and what you’re doing, you won’t know how you got there.
Except for the transition strips and shoe molding at the baseboards, phase 1 of the flooring project is done! The office, bedroom, hallway and associated closets are done at last, taking several days longer than I anticipated.
So, as soon as I was finished nailing in the last board, dear wife of mine says “Lets start on the bedroom!” So off to the store once again to order another 184 sq ft of wood and transition strips to finish everything off. Hopefully it will go a little faster this time around.
Lessons I learned installing the floor:
Not only are they coming fast, but the storms are getting bigger too. The second Cat 4 hurricane in as many weeks will brush past Jamaica over the weekend on it’s way through the tip of the Yucutan peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. That’s 2 major hurricanes so far this season out of a predicted 3-5 for the season.
A few days behind Emily is yet another tropical wave that might develop into something over the next few days. Lots to keep an eye on this year.
Finished with the floor in another room! This one only took us a total of about 9 hours to do. So now all that’s left is the closet in this room, the hallway, the two little linen closets and the transitions between the different areas. Not much left now, and it should go pretty quickly. After this, we think about doing our bedroom.
