Opposite day.

According to Wikipedia, "Opposite day is a word game where speech is modified so that meaning is inverted. Once Opposite Day is declared, statements mean the opposite of what they usually mean. Usually, a person would say, "After this phrase is over, it will be officially opposite day," and then Opposite Day will be officially started."


But it has been proven that opposite day can be also used for actions.
Example: Instead of slapping someone else, you slap yourself!

There are some problems with opposite day. You could just slap yourself, or you could totally over think it and go, hmm... Lets see, what is the opposite of: Slap. Hhh..   hug...   Em..   Embrace! So I must have to embrace myself.. but... its opposite day.. so I should... slap my friends hug? Wait.. No.. his.. brothers aunt!

We all are, Timmy.


To avoid confusion while playing the opposite game, it is advised that you don't think about it too much. You should it simple and go with your gut reaction. 



It can also sometimes be fun to imagine opposites. Example:


instead of pulling the pin,

  

And throwing the grenade...

You could pull the grenade,

And throw the pin!

You could imagine the rest.




Try out opposite day yourself! (don't do anything dangerous.. obviously.)


But wait! Before you go:

The sentence "Today is opposite day" is in fact a paradox. Don't think about it too much or it may create a black whole in your mind. Destroying it.

Riddles.

Recently my brother Sam got an iPod app that is filled with user uploaded riddles. On our way home from Church one day (It takes an hour to get home) he was reading riddles the WHOLE WAY HOME.


There are a few different types of riddles (technically only 2):

• An enigma is a problem in which the solution is expressed metaphorically. You have to carefully think about the riddle to come up with the solution. 
• A conundrum is a question that opens either the question or the answer. 
• Then there are the stupid ones that you could never have guessed.

A riddle, however, doesn’t need to be classified as one of these types. As long as it is difficult to figure out and has an answer or a meaning to it, it can be classified as a riddle.


We were getting a lot of the stupid ones and after a while we found a pretty steady pattern in the riddles and decided to stick with the same pattern of answers to guess with.

Our guessing pattern went as follows:

TIME....   nope...
LIGHT....    nope...
SHADOWS....  nope...
A BOMB....    nope...
POOP....    nope...


The first 3 where actually right 30% of the time.




I actually have a riddle for YOU!

I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole, What am I?


Submit your answer to the Bulfenroben Facebook Page!
I will post the answer next Friday! GOOD LUCK!

Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is a prize for the winner. A digital prize that's actually worth something.

Once again... GOOD LUCK!


Edit:
The answer is: A Snake!

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 .