Toobatee: October 2011

Friday, October 28, 2011

Explaining the Googleplex.

I am going to try and explain a googleplex.

If you aren't familiar with the googleplex, its a very very hugenormus number.

Million, billion, trillion.. something.. something..... something.. Uh... After a long time, a very very long time of doing this if you know your numbers, you will reach a GOOGOL.

A googol is 1, followed by a hundred zeros.

It would literally look like this:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

That my friends, is a Googol. This, is a HUGE number. Imagine that many tacos. That's more tacos, then there are hydrogen molecules in the known universe. That's intense.

And that's just a googol!

A Googleplex, is 1, followed by a GOOGOL zeros. Not a hundred zeros, A GOOGOL ZEROS.

Imagine every taco, turns into a zero and lines up. That's a lot of zeros.

It is physically impossible for you to write this out. If you where writing it on a piece of paper, you would need more space, then there is in the known universe.

Then why the heck would you make a number that big? Your probably asking yourself.

In the words of some guy on Yahoo answers:

it enables us to do math with very large NON_INFINITE numbers.

Which makes sense.

WHO invented it is an interesting story.

In 1938, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol, then proposed the further term googolplex to be "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired". Kasner decided to adopt a more formal definition "because different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera be a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance and could write for longer". It thus became standardized to $10^{10^{100}}$ .

Friday, October 21, 2011

Motorola ATRIX

So yeah, I have had this super poopy Nokia Surge for the past year and a half, and I hated using it. I just despised that thing.

It was one of those super slow, your pressing the buttons faster than it can register, so your having to sit there and wait for it to load kinda phones.

And, it was labeled as a "texting phone" but it turned out that it was a kind of smart phone, texting phone hybrid. So to keep from getting bookoo chargers for data, we had to put on something called a "data block." So I couldn't send our receive pictures.

So I had this poop slow brick, that could call and text (with some challenge)
It was a pain for a long time.

Then just a few weeks ago, I was eligible for an upgrade. Before this I was already looking at new phones, and decided that I wanted the Motorola atrix.

Ahh, the atrix.

The fastest phone on the market.
With a 1.0 GHz dual core tegra 2 processor, and 1 gig of ram, it was the fastest you could get.
2 cameras, front and back, and also has a finger scanner on the back.
plus, it's running android 2.3
And it's only 100$ with a 2 year contract.

The day I was eligible, we drove to the AT&T store and picked it up. The first picture that I took, Was in the store with the front facing camera.

That is it. Cant you see the joy in my face? Small irises? Clenched lips? Yeah. This is the face of intense joy, but I'm pretending like I'm only mildly happy for reasons unknown.

In the few weeks that I have been using it, I have descovered that I like the Android OS over the IOS.

It's better for nerds like me.

But yeah, this thing Is so cool, I wrote this whole blog post with it.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Pickle Products.

A couple posts ago we had a random pickle. While on Amazon, I felt the urge to search, for an electric yodeling pickle. To my surprise you can actually get one!

YODELING PICKLE!

I kind of seriously want to buy this thing. Especially after these reviews. (He gave it 4 stars):

I loaned my iPod to my kid and he broke it. This understandably bummed me out, since I really enjoy taking long walks on the beach while listening to some tune-age. I'm kinda low on funds, so buying a replacement iPod wasn't an option for me. I was very fortunate to discover the Yodeling Pickle. I have been super pleased with the results. First of all, as luck would have it, the Yodeling Pickle just happens to yodel all of my favorite tunes that were stored on my iPod. Hits like "Bobbejaan Schoepen yodels the collected works of Black Sabbath" and of course Slim Whitman's edgy yodeling rendition of "Baby Got Back."

I have withheld one star from my review however, giving the Yodeling Pickle just four of five possible stars. There isn't a headphone jack, which is only a problem if the folks around me don't appreciate yodeling, (which almost NEVER happens). Also, I was accustomed to carrying the iPod strapped to my arm with the elastic armband accessory. Nothing like this is available for the pickle. On my beach walks, I've found that the pickle can be carried around by conveniently in my belt. I've met tons of nice ladies on the beach since scoring the pickle. I can only assume they dig yodeling as much as I do.

It's a great portable music solution for yodeling fans. Cheaper than an iPod and the chicks seem to dig it.

Or how about this one?:

I've been searching high and low for a quality Electronic Yodelling Pickle for over 20 years now, and this one is by far the greatest one of them all. You won't find a better Electronic Yodelling Pickle on the market! I'm Roger Barr and I approved of this message

That, is good to know.

A snippet from another review:

It yodels. That's basically it. But if you listen closely, it yodels thoughts to you. I'm now turning my life around thanks to the advice it gives. I'm a little worried about some of the things it tells me to do, but what the Yodelling Pickle Toy tells me to do, I have to do. I don't make the rules. It does.

Those are seriusly real reviews.Dont believe me? Look it up yourself!

Pickle-Pult anyone?

Wait... What?:
Now, you might laugh at this Pickle-pult and think it silly. However, I challenge you to look more deeply into the possibilities of any product, just as I did after putting some clever thought into the situation.

I needed a serious solution to my problem of no home defense capabilities. I have not been allowed to own or operate a gun since "the incident", so I needed some creativity to come up with an answer. I had tried a catapult, but after only a few shots, the cats tend to run away and never come back the next time you let them outside.

So what I do, is I buy the official "terrified pickles" accessory pack, and then I whittle one end of them down to a sharp point. This is tricky for me to do, since I am not allowed to own or handle knives since "the incident". Then when an unwelcome intruder enters my home or yard, I fire a terrified pickle, point first, in their direction. They tend to run off with the pickle still embedded, so I keep an abundant supply of replacement terrified pickles on hand.

Best of all, no one ever believes that they were injured by a whittled down plastic terrified pickle launched by a pickle-pult. In fact, one intruder spent four days in the psych-ward after trying to put that story across. So none of my humorless, paranoid family, friends, or neighbors has yet been able to obtain a court order denying me THIS method of self defense.

I will never look at a pickle the same way.

PICKLE BAND-AIDS!