Journal entries in 'Things I Like' for January, 2006

You find yourself in a 15mph race that ends in your untimely yet quite anticlimatic death.

Back in 2002, to combat the increasing popularity of illegal street racing in Puerto Rico (known as "La Fiebre", or "The Fever/Illness"), the government commissioned a movie to be made (called, simply enough, La Fiebre). The relatively low-budget film was sponsored by Pep Boys, Armor All, and Shell, all of which are featured prominently in the movie (and if you're anything of a car geek, you know why it's funny that Pep Boys sponsors the film).

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OK, my standards seem to be getting pretty low as far as what I'm willing to post here. Soon you'll start seeing surveys about the number of people I've kissed and "What type of pasta are you?" quizzes. But these make me laugh and, ultimately, that's one of the few goals I strive towards here.

Q. What do you get if you cross a pig and a sheep?

A. A vector with magnitude (length of pig * length of sheep * sin θ) in the direction mutually perpendicular to the pig and the sheep determined by the right hand rule.

Q. What do you get if you cross a mosquito and a mountain climber?

A. You can't; a mountain climber is a scalar!

A policeman pulls a guy over. "Do you know that you just ran through a red light?" he says.
"I didn't run a red light," the guy says. "I saw the light, and it was green."
The policeman says, "Well, then I'll have to write you a speeding ticket!"

Q. What is the physicist's definition of a vector space?

A. A set V satisfying the axiom that for any x in V, x has a little arrow drawn over it.

It's looking like Andrés will be borrowing my Civic (apparently featured in a popular yet surprisingly unfunny video on streetfire.net) for the six months or so he's going to be in South Carolina. Heh heh, sure, everyone makes fun of me for owning so many cars, but when someone needs something to drive, it's a different story, huh? :)