Tag: mathematics
Monday
Marmite is named after the type of french cooking pot which appears on the label.
Tuesday
10th of October is metric day. Wonder if Clintons will make cards for it…
Wednesday
Lattice multiplication has been about in Europe since the 13th century.
Thursday
India recently approved a new symbol for the rupee after a nationwide competition. 
Friday
I learnt a neat trick for sketching cartoons using a blue pencil and GIMP
http://www.georgetoon.com/blog/blue/
Saturday
UK postcodes in the second group of letters exclude the letters CIKMOV as they may be confused with other numbers or letters.
Sunday
Rabbits do not vomit, they are incapable of it. Cecotropes is the name given to the produce of their anus that they eat to give food a second go through their digestive system.
Thursday
Harald Bohr was the first mathematician to win an Olympic medal (and possibly the only one so far).
Friday
I learnt that Ada Lovelace was a drinker, a gambler and a flirt.
Saturday
I learnt that hair straighteners can be used to get rid of creases in silk.
Sunday
The capacity of the county ground at the moment is 6500
Categories
The Beautiful People
There are some people who are quite mathematic,
Who are capable of feats arithmetic,
They sit on their bums,
As their brains do some sums,
Yet they are perceived by many people as tragic.
Monday
I was told two jokes one with the punchline Wong and one with the punchline Dragon Lips. Neither are particularly PC but the last one is particularly not PC. Also discovered an efficient method of raffle ticket folding. Also in the ICC twenty20 five overs is enugh for a game.
Tuesday
Spam was named as it contains pork and ham (and is jokingly referred to as “something that poses as pork and ham”). Yet another “cat poo” coffee fact, it is pronounced coo-pee loovuck (not Loowak).
Wednesday
This is becoming coffee obsessed, but today i found out how freeze dried coffee is made. Bet its not as nice as Kopi Luwak. I did leanr too that Tottenham will be part of this years top 4 who have champions league fun to look forward to. (Avoiding election news).
Thursday (General Election Day)
I was going to avoid any political lessons for this week (I had already read manifestos etc so got all that out of my system). However today i learnt that you are not allowed to wear a rosette to the polling station when casting your vote. You can get totally drunk and wasted before you vote though.
Friday
Today I learnt that there is a consitutional procedure when a general election ends up in a hung parliament.
Saturday
I found out that a nurdle is a plastic pellet as well as something a batsman can do in cricket. Also Joseph is Michael Jackson’s middle name, although I should have noticed this earlier.
Sunday
Louise Redknapp’s maiden name is Nurding.
Monday – Exciting news as I learnt something from someone aged 2. Peppa pigs brother is called George. I also learnt how a windmill arm action can help you to balance on a trampoline and how to bounce back up from a sitting position.
Tuesday – The actor who played Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar is better known for his work in Pornographic films as both an actor and director.
Wednesday – Xeme is a type of arctic gull
Thursday -Little’s theorem that I assumed was a sort of obvious probability theorem in queueing theory is called Little’s theorem. I apologise to Little for not knowing the theorem was his.
Friday – Plato was named because is head was flat (like a plateau). Pet passports were originally a monster raving looney party idea (I knew votes for 18 year olds was already).
Saturday – Rochdale Football Club before today had not had a promotion since 1969 so congratulations to them
Sunday – I learnt that tambourine and timbrel essentially are the same thing (despite the protestations of those Britains Got Talent hopefuls).
Monday – Excitingly along with the vitamin D I am getting from the sunshine I also get 167% of my daily vitamin C requirement from one bottle of orange juice in the college canteen. Another spring thing I learnt is that spring moves 3 times faster in the US than in the UK (1 mile per hour in a northerly direction in the US).
Tuesday – I think I must have forgotten this but there is a tan rule that can be used for triangles (not as useful as the cosine and sine rule though).
Wednesday – When dating churches, holding digits against the window can help you date them. One thumb Norman (1000-1175), Index Finger Early English 1175 – 1275, three fingers (not little) Decorated (1275-1375) and the whole hand Perpendicular 1375-1575. Incidently in this case dating churches is not referring to taking them out for a nice candlelit meal.
Thursday – Jeans are stronger if the double stitching is in the inside leg. Also the pocket bags should be sewn into the inner hem if they are good quality. I also learnt what a pattern block was, my fashion awareness is growing stronger daily…
Friday (41st Birthday!) – Bakers Dolphin coaches have been in business before the invention of the coach, 130 years.
Saturday – Cafe Nero milano hot chocolate is now served in glasses.
Sunday – The cricket superstition that a nelson (111) is bad luck is possibly because the number has the appearance of wickets with the bails removed.
Monday – Cheating husbands are less intelligent than those that do not cheat. Ashley Cole, John Terry should take note you dirty dogs
Tuesday – Bambi was Austrian
Wednesday – Invertase is the enzyme used to make soft centres in sweets. Apparantly comes from yeast, or Saccharomyces cerevisiae as noone knows it by.
Thursday – A63 paper is hard to come by (as is A62). This is due in part to A63 paper being smaller than a single carbon atom
Friday – Edgar Dijkstra came up with the Bankers Algorithm
Saturday – In finger spelling the left hand is the vowels. Also Jurassic park was full of non Jurassic dinosaurs.
Sunday – Hush Puppy boxers should be washed at 30 C, the shortest gestation period of a mammal is 12-13 days (Virginian Opposum and Yapok). As if I had not learnt enough, I also found out that flour can be useful when making a cottage pie.
Monday – Berol fibre tipped pens can survive for 14 days without their cap on, unlike some of my students.
Tuesday – Found out how to sort out a rogue US keyboard impersonator on a PC (one of those things I possibly should have known already)
Wednesday – The patron saint of mathematicains job shares his work with being the patron Saint of hunters, opticians, metalworkers and used to be involved in rabies curing. Saint Dismas the patron saint of criminals only seems to have the one job…
Thursday – I learnt an immature trick with a Casio scientific calculator (a sort of modern version of the 5318008 = boobies one). (.)A(.) then move the cursor back to the A and you have your very own
Friday – When decomissioning a nuclear missile you deal with the warhead first
Saturday – Marmite have developed an extra strong version due out in early march
Sunday – Stick insects have become naturalised in Devon and Cornwall
Monday – I probably could have worked it out but the Rocky Horror Picture Show is apparantly has the longest release of any film. Certainly any film with a transvestite in it.
Tuesday – The Great Britain (essentially Scottish) mens curling team are at present the world champions
Wednesday – Eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one (and equal) / Also it is apparantly national nest box week (??)
Thursday – I learnt the UK will have an extra bank holiday in 2012 to celebrate the queens diamond jubilee
Friday – You can train a dog to obey the command “bonky bonky” (less messy if its a bitch). I also learnt at last which way Flamingos legs bend. (or had what I thought was the case confirmed)
Saturday – Asparagus cup of soup definately contains asparagus (as tested by someone with “asparagus wee”)
Sunday – A pint of Sailor Jerry’s is equivalent to 568.26ml and would cost Andy the discoverer of the worst model of the human heart £25 approximately in a pub.