Comments on: Nightmares

By: Ed Crowder

Ed Crowder — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:36:26 +0000

To continue the thought, I’ve been on a diet. So I’ll almost certainly dream about Mexican food tonight. The nightmare part will start when I wake up and the burrito turns into my cat.

By: Ed Crowder

Ed Crowder — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:31:19 +0000

Interestingly, I dreamed of Mexico last night. But it wasn’t a nightmare.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:05:10 +0000

Ed: You too can have cool nightmares. Just eat more Mexican food.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:07:07 +0000

Jeremy: But’s it’s a maths/physics exam, so the earth is a perfect sphere, its orbit is circular, and the Tropic of Cancer is fixed. It’s like that old joke about the physicist who has developed the perfect way to win at the track. “To start, assume the horses are perfect spheres…”

By: Ed Crowder

Ed Crowder — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:40:27 +0000

Your dreams are officially cooler than mine. Although I think this is just a variation of the classic showing-up-for-class-naked nightmare. Except not naked. And in Miami.

By: jeremy hunsinger

jeremy hunsinger — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:32:34 +0000

that is a strange one… i do take exception with the idea that the calculations are easier with constants though.. since the real circumference of the earth is fractaly infinite like the surface area of sand on a beach, but limited in abstraction, the only thing you really have to go on are variables. none of the physics ‘constants’ mentioned above are constant. so all you really need are the definitions for circle and elipse and speed with their requisite formulae.