• Gimli (unregistered)

    The sewing one sounds sexist to me. After all, it's only funny if you assume that women are not capable of understanding calculus and electrical engineering. Right?

  • Josh (unregistered) in reply to Vollhorst

    I don't know about that, I heard some pretty good horror stories about EZPass when I lived down there. :)

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Gimli
    Gimli:
    The sewing one sounds sexist to me. After all, it's only funny if you assume that women are not capable of understanding calculus and electrical engineering. Right?

    Women aren't the only ones who don't understand calculus and electrical engineering. Espsecially how either relates to curtains.

  • ysth (unregistered) in reply to David Millar
    David Millar:
    The sudoku one kind of makes sense, sort of. The program seems to show the actual time you spent in it solving the puzzle, but also the time since you first saw it.

    No, it's a bug in recent versions of gnome-games.

  • chunder thunder (unregistered) in reply to SR
    SR:
    Women aren't the only ones who don't understand calculus and electrical engineering. Espsecially how either relates to curtains.
    It's obvious, you just need to know y(s) so you can compute 6∫ y(s) ds, which experts shorten to 6 ∫ yds
  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to My Name?
    My Name?:
    There is no WTF in using maths for sewing. A curtain, viewed from top or bottom, is similar to a sinus curve (here comes pi into paly). The integral of y along s gives the weight of the curtain. The Omega must have something to do with static electricity.
    Omega stands for resistance, which is related to the difficulty of getting your spouse or flatmate off his sedent to help you hang the curtains.

    Pi may be related to using baked goods as a bribe to overcome Omega.

    -Harrow.

  • Mark (unregistered)

    My sister-in-law designed her wedding gown using calculus to know how much material to purchase.

  • aBase (unregistered) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    My sister-in-law designed her wedding gown using calculus to know how much material to purchase.
    And got it wrong? ('Cause she's a woman, after all.)
  • The Mad Metrician (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that 4*pi yards isn't 3.9 meters, it's 11.5 meters.

  • Procedural (unregistered) in reply to Gimli
    Gimli:
    The sewing one sounds sexist to me. After all, it's only funny if you assume that women are not capable of understanding calculus and electrical engineering. Right?

    Yes, clearly this is the point that the OP is making. Not that the signs do not match in any way, shape or form a measure of distance. It is about systemic sexism in a chauvinistic world. Thank you for your contribution.

  • Boris (unregistered)

    Well, an ohm-yard can be construed as the rate of area per second since:

    V = Nm/As = kg*(m^2)/A*(s^3) A = sqrt((2*(10^-7)N)/k) ~= .000447 * sqrt(N/k) = .000447 * sqrt(kgm/k(s^2)) = .000447 * sqrt(kg*m/k) / s

    ohm = V/A = kg*(m^2)/(A^2)(s^3) = km/s*(.000447^2) = 2*(10^7)k*m/s

    a yard-ohm = 0.91442(10^7)k*(m^2)/s = 0.9144*4 = 3.6576(m^2)/s

  • the girlfriend (unregistered) in reply to Gimli

    Who do you think pointed out there was calculus and engineering in my sewing pattern?

  • Contra (unregistered)

    TRWTF on the last one is Scott Bauer considers an email received four months ago to be recent.

  • gus (unregistered) in reply to Boris

    yes, and electrical capacitance can be measured in centimeters (which the French did for a while). But what's the point?

  • Dirk Diggler (unregistered) in reply to BBT
    BBT:
    The real WTF is an event called "Let's meet kids in the park".

    Sweet, I'll get my windowless van, you bring the candy.

    Great, I just got my clown suit back from the cleaners and I'll loan you my "Free puppies" sign.

  • huh (unregistered)

    I'm so confused. So where do the words go?!?!?!??!

    Captcha: abigo What those in the know fondly refer to as a Capital O

  • Dirk Diggler (unregistered) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    My sister-in-law designed her wedding gown using calculus to know how much material to purchase.
    Why did she need calculus, was her size changing over time?
  • Ouch! (unregistered) in reply to Dirk Diggler
    Dirk Diggler:
    Mark:
    My sister-in-law designed her wedding gown using calculus to know how much material to purchase.
    Why did she need calculus, was her size changing over time?
    What do you think why she got married?
  • (cs) in reply to Ouch!
    Ouch!:
    Dirk Diggler:
    Mark:
    My sister-in-law designed her wedding gown using calculus to know how much material to purchase.
    Why did she need calculus, was her size changing over time?
    What do you think why she got married?
    and we have a winner.
  • clvrmnky (unregistered)

    Fabric is actually measured in ohms of inductance. That must be it.

  • Some Wonk (unregistered)

    The unemployment figures in Georgia would not have been so bad, if they did not lay off the guy who pushes the decimal point key.

  • Silverhill (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    I don't know about that, I heard some pretty good horror stories about EZPass when I lived down there. :)
    The wait time listed was so the pass holder would have time to find a wooden table to photograph it on. Obviously they underestimated the time-to-completion of such a project.

    (The bagged firewood, now, is fully properly presented.)

    CAPTCHA: nisl -- "No man is an island", shortened for SMS users

  • Procedural (unregistered) in reply to Boris
    Boris:
    Well, an ohm-yard can be construed as the rate of area per second since:

    V = Nm/As = kg*(m^2)/A*(s^3) A = sqrt((2*(10^-7)N)/k) ~= .000447 * sqrt(N/k) = .000447 * sqrt(kgm/k(s^2)) = .000447 * sqrt(kg*m/k) / s

    ohm = V/A = kg*(m^2)/(A^2)(s^3) = km/s*(.000447^2) = 2*(10^7)k*m/s

    a yard-ohm = 0.91442(10^7)k*(m^2)/s = 0.9144*4 = 3.6576(m^2)/s

    :) You are my new hero.

  • Kevin Kofler (unregistered)

    AFAICT, the pi should actually be 1/4, the integral 1/2 and the omega 3/4.

  • Alex (unregistered)

    The real wtf is that he actually has a girlfriend who sews. My past significant others have only known how to throw away and buy again.

    CAPTCHA: vulputate - to grow a plant inside of one's stomach

  • (cs) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    Anonymous:
    Coward:
    It's funny cause at first I thought that was the WTF! LOL
    BBT:
    The real WTF is an event called "Let's meet kids in the park".

    Sweet, I'll get my windowless van, you bring the candy.

    Semi-related story: a local council in the UK has recently banned parents from playing with their children in public playgrounds. The reason? They could be paedophiles! Now, all parents must remain outside the playground perimeter at all times. This is a true story.

    #3

    No they didn't. The Real WTF is people believe what they read in the papers

    No explanation is offered as to why a playground is being run as a "closed, fully supervised facility". (my guess: same reason the papers originally reported)

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    so you think he actually waited 26 YEARS before he finished the puzzle? i want one of whatever computer he has.
    Probably what happened was that NTP set the time back to before the time the puzzle was started.
  • Garmoran (unregistered) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    Matt:
    Anonymous:
    Semi-related story: a local council in the UK has recently banned parents from playing with their children in public playgrounds. The reason? They could be paedophiles! Now, all parents must remain outside the playground perimeter at all times. This is a true story.

    #3

    No they didn't. The Real WTF is people believe what they read in the papers

    No explanation is offered as to why a playground is being run as a "closed, fully supervised facility". (my guess: same reason the papers originally reported)

    Or possibly this: "It's worth mentioning that these playgrounds are not quite the ordinary, open public playgrounds that you tend to find in parks.

    They are council-run drop-in centres, where the idea is that you can sign in your children and leave them to be supervised by vetted staff who are trained in first-aid etc. They have loads of sports equipment, coaches, skate pipes, zip-wires and an indoor activity centre as well as outdoor play, so it's a bit more than your average swings and see-saw. No wonder there is a sturdy fence around with all that nickable gear. Plus there is a minimum age of 5 years, so pictures of sad toddlers with dummies is over-egging the misery a bit!"

    I tried posting a link to the forum page I found this on but apparently "Akismet" thought it was spam :)

  • (cs)
    Words go here, length un-known. Stacey will write the words and Doug will edit the words. Words go here, length un-known. Stacey will write the words and Doug will edit the words. Words go here, length un-known. Stacey will write the words and Doug will edit the words. Words go here, length un-known. Stacey will write the words and Doug will edit the words.
    Stacey will lose her job and Doug will follow her.  
  • Cosmo (unregistered)

    Words go here, length un-known. Stacey will write the words "Seatec Astronomy" and Doug will edit the words. The van with the children is heading to Rite Aid Pharmacy.

  • Ron (unregistered)

    All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

  • sakhmet (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that unknown has been hyphenated...

  • Steve the Cynic (unregistered) in reply to gus
    gus:
    yes, and electrical capacitance can be measured in centimeters (which the French did for a while). But what's the point?

    Aaaaaaah! Cgs units, where electrical charge is unitless! (And following from that, ..., capacitance is measured in units of length, and conveniently enough, a sphere's capacitance == its radius. Go figure.)

    bene: bene the batte.

  • Morgoth (unregistered) in reply to tweek
    tweek:
    "Nullsoft" is a pretty appropriate name...

    The authors of Winamp may have issue with that....

  • (cs)

    Is that a picture of Stacey with the cape? She is looking for Doug!

  • NutDriverLefty (unregistered) in reply to Boris

    Technically, isn't that a square yard ohm?

  • theCoder (unregistered)

    The Sudoku one seems to be a minor typo bug -- a "+=" was used instead of an "=". See bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563319. Looks like it's been fixed, though not in any released Gnome.

  • DoubleAW (unregistered)

    Perhaps they're suggesting that math is an integral part of sewing?

  • (cs) in reply to TarquinWJ

    With blu ray converter You can play the output video on iPod, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Mobile Phone, etc

  • luptatum (unregistered) in reply to besthdsoft2

    289 bucks? And that's just part 61/141? What is wrong with you?

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Procedural
    Procedural:
    Not that the signs do not match in any way, shape or form a measure of distance.

    They do match the metric conversions pretty well if you take π=¼, ∫=½, and Ω=¾. Looks like a character encoding issue.

  • Me (unregistered)

    I remember seeing that 94% unemployment thing on the news. It freaked my grandma out X3

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