Month: September 2012
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Three Films I'd Watch (if anybody made them)
Dan pitches three movie ideas: "Knights of the Living Dead" (a twisted form of the Arthurian legends, with zombies), "My Daughter's Hand" (a story of love, homophobia, and family), and "The Bone Wars" (a dramatisation of the real-life rivalry of two of the Victorian era's most-famous palaeontologists).
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Suppose you have a time machine that can only jump to leap days. What's the chance that a random jump will put you on a Monday? [Maths]
Here’s a puzzle for you –
AltLike the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault.Like the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault. The fault isn’t a failure of its chameleon circuit, but a quirk in its ability to jump to particular dates. Picture courtesy aussiegall (Flickr), licensed Creative Commons.
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The Leap Machine (Puzzle)
Dan proposes a puzzle: if you know that it is 29th February in some randomly-selected leap year, what is the probability that it is a Monday? The answer is not one-seventh...
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Five
Dan and Ruth celebrate five years together; Dan spots some curious numeric coincidences; and the pair of them think about throwing a party.
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A brand new Golf from @ZipcarUK, a field of friendly cows, a tub of last night's curry, and an afternoon's #paramotoring. #LifeIsGood
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Review of Shiny EN001/NP01 Pre-Inked Paid Stamp
This review originally appeared on Amazon. See more reviews by Dan. Shiny EN001/NP01 Pre-Inked Paid Stamp Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ It's a stamp. It stamps. Hurrah!
It's a stamp. It stamps. It looks like it's going to dry out, but it doesn't. It works, and it's great.
The only thing it could have benefited from would have been …