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Category Archives: Mathematics
Are ‘Twenty One Pilots’ ‘Green Day’ Fan Boys?
On the surface the band Twenty One Pilots are light years different from pop punk Green Day. First of all Twenty One Pilots are a keyboard centric band as opposed to the guitar centred music of Green Day. (This is … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Music
Tagged 2nd act slump, Blurry Face, down with the term schizophrenic pop, early climax, end climax, everybody wants to be a pilot, graphing fun with TOP, Green Day, Green Day are guitar centric, Green Day is pop punk, rap verse seems to have replaced the guitar solo, small bands, TOP is kaleidoscope pop, TOP is keyboard centric, Twenty One Pilots, Twenty One Pilots is really from an Arthur Miller play, Twenty-One Guns
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Now is the Most Favourable Time for a Certain Type of Tourism
You might not have guessed that today’s tourism is greatly favourable. After all a year or two ago may have had better tourism numbers. I’m not talking year over year favourability but the difference between a few decades ago and … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Science Fiction
Tagged ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, big time travel, jackpot, onerous odds, Ontario lottery ad, pick-your-own-numbers lotteries, pyramids, rubbing shoulders with millionaires, rubbing shoulders with time travelers, slaves, Sparta, the lottery, the lottery is rigged, time travel, tourism, traveling to ancient times you're most likely to be a surf or a peasant, who wouldn't want to be the 1% in our era?, writer of science fiction
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CEOs as DJs of the Business World
A “successful” CEO will try to limit her lowest level employees to less-than-inflation wage increases. After all these employees should have gotten better education and skills. It’s their fault that no one at the top speaks for them. Then the … Continue reading
Cash – The Form of Currency for the Christian Pure
If there is any doubt that Canada’s Conservative Party has an implied pact with the conservative Christian movement, remove that doubt. Due to the actions of the Conservative Party it is now impossible to have the sum of $6.66 in … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Social Science
Tagged $6.66 in cash now impossible in Canada, 666 is said to be an evil number by christians, banks are evil, cash, cash is a purer form of currency, company gift cards are evil, conservative christians, Conservative Party, credit cards are evil, electronic money is still evil, with inflation and getting rid of onerous currency $666 will eventually be impossible in cash
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Canada Stats: A New Ratio
Most Canadians have heard the following fact about living in Canada. 90 % of Canada’s Population lies within 200 miles of the American border. When your country stretches for thousands of miles further north, this is a significant statistic. I … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Mathematics, Wry
Tagged Alberta, Atlantic Canada, British Columbia, Canada, Manitoba, New Brunswick, no sales tax, Ontario, Prairies, provinces, Quebec, Quebec is the outlier, Quebec was here before any US colonies, regions of Canada, Saskatchewan, the truth about Alberta and rats
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Time Gambling
My jurisdiction of Ontario allows gambling not only via lottery tickets but with casinos. Largely the province has bet that this will produce extra money in its coffers. Perhaps it can do more good than the bad that gambling can … Continue reading
The Lottery in Babyl- er- Ontario with Apologies to Jorge Luis Borges
Some of you may have heard this lottery story. A Hamilton woman will be 50 million dollars richer next month. Not because she proved she had the winning ticket by handing it in for the claim, but because the lottery … Continue reading
Why Green Day Stopped Making Concept Albums
American Idiot was a very successful album for Green Day. So of course they tried the concept album again with 21st Century Breakdown. But instead of steadily gaining new audience with three new concept albums they reverted to a normal … Continue reading
The Right is Right, But the Left is More Right: A Mathematical Proof
We’ll start this proof with a simple relation. Right angle = 90 degree angle Therefore, Right =90 degrees. Now we’ve all heard of “doing a 180” which is to do the opposite. This comes from the mathematics which means to … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics
Tagged doing a 180, left, left is more right than right, non Euclidean geometry, right, right angle, right is right
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