Friday, October 23, 2009

Assignment 8

1. All english words containing the letters "eue"
queue | queued | queues | cue | due | ecu | emu | hue | rue | sue | Sue | use | Ute | ague | Aube | beau | Beau | blue | Cebu | clue | cube | cued | cues | cure | cute | dude | duel |

2. How much potassium in 4.7 oz of banana?
query: amount of potassium in 4.7 of banana
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: 477 Milligrams

3. How old was Barack Obama on the day you were born?
query: age of barack obama october 8 1989
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: 28 years 2 months 4 days

4. Date and time of the next total solar eclipse in Eugene?
query: next solar eclipse in eugene oregon
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: 11:25 am PDT | Monday, August 21, 2017 (7.833 years from now)

5. What is the minimum and maximum price of google stock since it went public?
query: minimum and maximum price of google stock since it went public
engine: Google
answer: Conflicting minimums-- WA says $100.01 (but does not list the IPO date). Google's best answer seems to imply IPO date of August 19, 2004, initial price $85. Neither has trouble with the stock high of $741.79.

6. Link an image of the barcode for UPC 01234567890
query: UPC 01234567890
engine: Google
answer: http://www.neodynamic.com/barcodes/Images/UpcA04.gif

7. How many vertices does an icosahedron have?
query: number of vertices in an icosahedron
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: 12

8. Distance from Eugene to Tokyo?
query: Distance from Eugene to Tokyo
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: 4886 miles

9. Average Oregon income per capita?
query: Average Oregon income per capita
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: $31,930

10. What is the Morse code for your first name?
query: morse code for Shane
engine: Wolfram Alpha
answer: * * * * * * * * -- -- * *

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Watch 10 Minutes of Glorious Bullet Impacts at ONE MILLION Frames Per Second

I'm no warmonger, but I can think of no finer way to waste my Saturday evening than spending 10 minutes of the company's time watching bullets striking various objects at one million frames per second.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Shanes Blog

one blog i have recently been introduced to is iamshane.com

this guy is almost as cool as me, he takes pictures of ATM's and then gets arrested for it.
if it were me i would take the picture and then NOT get arrested.

thats how the pros do it.

StumbleUpon

check out the pages i like on StumbleUpon!

Bruce Lee is a Badass

what a ping pong pimp


Bruce Lee is so awesome they made a statute of him flexing. they probably decided to do that after he dominated those guys at ping pong




all he needs is a paddle in his hand

My Birthday

my birthday is October 8th. i have less than a week left of being a teenager

Welcome

Welcome to Shane's Lazy Lolligaggings!

i am sitting in class. im kinda hungry and i could totally take a dump right now, but its alright i dont really have to take one i can hold it for a few more hours.

that is all