Cracked by Beth

Going on an easter egg hunt tomorrow, very exciting. My vision isn’t perfect and my attention to detail is lacking BUT my competitor is only eighteen months old. I figure I stand a pretty good shot at winning.

Vile Competitor

But I’ll probably get way behing early in the race so I’ll up filming Nathaniel’s victory. It will be handheld filming and while GL2 has a really great optical image stabilization system it would be much better if I had a steadicam jr or if I had found this (build your own steadicam for fourteen bucks) a week ago. Not that I would have built the thing yet but at least I would have known I could have built it. And knowing is half the battle.

Out of all the strange, odd, funny, viral flash animations/movies I’ve stumbled over on the internet I think Ja Da is my favorite. Why? I don’t know. I can’t think of a way to make it any worse OR any better and that’s gotta count for something.

Interesting article: Sure slipping the maitre d’ a c-note at the restaurants I eat at wouldn’t do any good (well I might get a free whopper) it works in New York City. So says James Beard in the very entertaining Pocketful of Dough.

In terrible, awful news: The tridiot formula has been CRACKED. I spent several minutes developing this formula and it’s complicated. Contained within the formula are several higher math functions such as addition and subtraction…and kronecker delta (gotta have Kronecker). Years ago I began to use the formula to measure just how much everything I did sucked, recently I started running my blogs through the complicated formula (.7 alpha inflections for a schwa e) and posting the results. I jealously guarded my formula, sure people would ask “Hey can you give me a tridiot rating?” and I’d say “Yep, but I won’t” Somehow

Beth Lock
derived the formula. Which is bad enough but her recent entry exceeded the theoretical maximum (129%) which means there’s a flaw somewhere in my calculations and that’s bad math on my part. Perhaps it’s the value of c (I should have used error bars).

CKS tridiot rating: 119.3614%