The post-crash picture thread

[Pablo]

"Bzzzzzzzt"???? Hey, how about a little respect for an honest effort?
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[Antrax]

Well, that was disappointing. I kept hoping maybe bgg goes to some super secret mutant school or something where precalc involves destroying sentinel robots or is from the future and much harder than current-day math or something. That's just random homework, which BTW seems to be more about practicing your algebraic transformations / pattern identification than actually understanding concepts (so letting your adoptive grandpa do it for you misses the point).
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[Quailman]

He didn't even have to worry about whether or not Pablo could get it right. He knew that if he didn't, there'd be any number of math geeks ready to pounce on it. Like Zag.

[bgg1996]

It was harder to get the pictures of the pages than do the homework.
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[MatthewV]

Meh, you didn't even rotate, crop. scale or adjust the contrast of the pictures.

I couldn't do your homework without looking up what one-to-one meant.

And I would do Pablo's problem without any thought at all. This is the shape you are trying to achieve, right? (of course with the other side)

[Pablo]

Yes. So the volume of the cylinder is removed, as are both "caps" at each end of the cylinder.
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[MacadamiamaN]

Hey! Updates!


This is me, with preferred cooling method on hot day.


This is my preferred mode of transportation; 80s Honda C70 Passport


This is my new hood ornament.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

The one time I put some thought into my Halloween costume and both my plans and my backup plans fall through. Oh well, it's still my best costume.

[Sniklac16]

Haha I like that pic! Maybe from now on I'll use that as my catch phrase, "You got snikt"
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[Pablo]

My dog and my grandson:

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[Jack_Ian]

Which is which?
_{(Sorry! couldn't resist)}

[Pablo]

Doesn't matter....I spoil them equally.
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[Zag]

How did your grandson like that big soup bone?

[MatthewV]

So is Pablo on the lab or the poodle side of the family?

[MatthewV]

Merry Christmas! I found a book of these vinyl shapes at the Salvation Army. Right now they decorate my kitchen window.

[j_s*]

Love the smiley face one. (or :_ I should say)

[Pablo]

With wife and son day before Christmas.


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[mck*]

[Zag]

A very Zaggy Christmas

I'm hard at work, cooking for 16. You can see a little of the roast goose in the background.



The Zag clan. I'm holding the dog; my wife is in the wheelchair next to me. My daughter is on the other side of me, and Zahariel (my son) is above and to our left of his bearded cousin. My sister, who this year was made CEO and President of the National M.S. Society, is in the back on our right.



Here are two shots of the (almost complete) quilt my wife made for the bearded one. (He graduated last year; all our nieces and nephews get a quilt when they graduate High School. Some of the other quilts can be seen here, if you're interested.)

[wordcross]

Wow, that quilt is super super impressive. I'm jealous!
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[extro...*]

Cool, kinda like Escher on LSD. I'm curious as to how it was made. The red blocky structures aside (which have hexagonal outlines), I can see the rest of it is made of hexagons, each different, but all having six-fold rotational symmetry, as if six identical patterned triangular scraps of cloth were sewn together to form each hexagon. Were each of those six constructed, or just cut from something with a repeating pattern?

[Zag]

extro, here is a better look at another of my wife's Kaleidoscope quilts, in which you can zoom in as close as you could possibly want. You should check out the recursive hexes in the middle.

The hexes are, in fact, made of six identical triangles. I actually do the cutting out part, because it is too difficult for my wife to do from the wheelchair.

1. Find the repeat in the pattern and cut out six roughly-identical slices. (Typically the pattern is 18, 24, 26, or 28 inches long, so you have to start with a piece of fabric that is six times that length.)
2. Carefully line up the six pieces by putting a pin through the exact same point in the pattern on all six pieces, repeat with three more pins, and then shake out the pinned-together stack so that the pieces are exactly lined up.
3. Cut the stack into strips, careful to keep them still lined up (pinning the strips together, as needed). The widths of the strips will be the height of the triangles, so they are 5 inches wide in the quilt above, 5 1/2 inches in the one linked to.
4. Using a cutting form which is an equilateral triangle, cut each strip into triangles.

(You should understand that the cutting is not done with anything so crude as a scissors. It is done with a fabric cutting wheel that looks like a pizza cutter but is sharp enough to take off a finger. You have to do it on a special cutting board that is made for it.)

Now I have a few dozen sets of six identical triangles each. Next comes my wife's part.

5. Go through all of these sets, choosing which orientation to use for each and sewing them into half-hexes. She also sews up the special Escher-esque cubes, but only into half-hexes, not complete ones.

Together we ...

6. Take all these hexes (still in half) and lay out the quilt top. We actually do this against a wall which I have covered with a huge piece of batting. Batting is the fluffy cotton that you put inside a quilt to give it thickness, but it also has the property that it will hold up a piece of fabric pressed against it as well as a weak magnet will stick to your refrigerator. It takes us about 2 hours to lay it all out and keep shifting around until we are happy with the overall pattern. Note that all of the kaleidoscope hexes come from the same original material, but they look very different due to where each triangle fell on the original pattern. We try to arrange the entire pattern to have interest and aesthetics.

9. I take down the half hexes in strips, careful to keep them in order according to our final decision on the overall pattern.

10. My wife sews them into strips, then sews the strips to each other, making sure that matching sides of each hex line up correctly. So strips look like this:

[Scurra]

Wow, that Dragon Quilt is amazing.
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[jesternl]

My son would go nuts over the dragon one...

Most definitely not your gramma's quilt! Awesome

[Zag]

[MatthewV]

A blurry friend and myself. Unfortunately the ones at -39C were blurry and that it wasn't -40 makes it even less cool.

[MNOWAX]

you guys think of so many interesting things to do in Alaska. not.
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[jesternl]

That's Fairbanks, right? I am pretty sure that my friends who live there sent me a picture with that same sign (although neither was in a similar state of undress)

[MatthewV]

It is the UAF sign in Fairbanks. It is the most common sign for people to take a picture of the temperature at.

It might get to -40 tonight. It was -38/-39 this afternoon.

[jesternl]

I'm going through my old emails to find the one of a friend who took a pic like that at the South Pole.. (although that should probably go in Top That )

[Courk]

My dog (I didn't resize the file):

http://www.glpics.com/courk/IMG_0223.JPG

[MatthewV]

I like the color pattern. Is the white contiguous? Name?

[Courk]

He's a Boston Terrier, so of course his name is Fenway.

Here he is as a ninja for Halloween:

[extropalopakettle]

What is the scientific explanation of cyan eye versus red eye?

[Courk]

Tapetum lucidum.

[Neo]

Bought two 14" Celestrons for work. Actually bought them in November. They arrived in December. I'll finally have them installed and ready for use by the Ides of March.
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[mck*]

Neo, it always seems like everything you do is so cool. How do you manage that?

[The Ragin' South Asian]

Is that a telescope or some sort of mortar?

[Neo]

[MNOWAX]

we all know what it is really for, Neo, and Mrs Meyer is not amused, and will be closing the curtains more often.
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