codyg1985’s Think Tank

It gets hot around here in August.  This August has been especially hot, for it has been 100 or more degrees for over a week now.  Fortunately, it is not very humid (humidity has been around 15-20%), so it does not feel as bad outside as it would normally during the summer, but it has […]

I thought these questions I found from this comment thread were interesting enough for me to quote here:
1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks — he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the […]

Today is March 14th, or 3-14. Get it? Today is known as Pi Day. For those of you who don’t deal with Pi everyday, it is the number which approximates the circumference of a circle whose diameter is exactly 1 unit. Pi pops up so much in my homework and […]

After watching this documentary by the BBC called “Parallel Universes,” I have some questions that I felt were unanswered by the documentary.  I’m sure that in order to completely understand the theory I would need a firm grasp on the mathematics and physics that are at work here, and that would require me to change […]

Thanks to the magic of UNICODE characters, you can make your text appear from right to left instead of left to right:
There are special characters in UNICODE to achieve the RTL. One such character is the Mirroring character. The property of mirroring character is that it makes Left to Right Text, Right to Left just […]

Conventional wisdom would lead you to believe that college is essential for one to earn more money. However, seldom does one consider the cost of a college degree. The argument in this article is that generally those who go into the workplace after graduating high school tend to earn more overall than college […]

NASA has revealed plans to build a permanent outpost on the lunar surface by 2024.  Construction will begin in 2020 shortly after the United States’ return to the Moon.  Most likely the base will be built on or near one of the Moon’s poles because there is better exposure to sunlight, especially at the southern […]

Courtesy Digg: McDonald’s has applied for a patent in the United States and Europe for the “method and apparatus to prepare [a sandwich].” McDonald’s claims that this patent will allow sandwiches look and taste the same at all restaurants.
Garnishes of lettuce, onions and tomatoes, as well as salt, pepper and ketchup, are inserted into […]

In southern Alabama, yellow jacket nests have been found that have engulfed entire cars, containing as much as 100,000 workers and multiple queens:
The largest nest Ray has inspected this year filled the interior of a weathered 1955 Chevrolet parked in a rural Elmore County barn. That nest was about the size of a tire in […]