Turkey for Dee

[dr4b]

Ok, let's see. I got a salad from Westlake for lunch. The guy who always tries to talk to me was making salads, so he made me an OMFG huge salad. Huge enough that I honestly couldn't finish it. Uhh, I did a bunch of work today. Not enough to make me happy, but I don't feel like it was a waste of a day at least.

Came home around 7:30-8... Eli cooked pad kee mow for dinner. More Thai food, yay, EXCEPT THIS WAS TOO SPICY FOR ME. Bleh. Still, it came out very well, very authentic, he's getting good at this stuff. Megan and Josh came by around 9 with Gordito's food, finished their dinners here, and then we all went to Sunset Bowl. It took forever to get a lane, they have some small league on Thursdays now. I played one game of DDR beforehand. Before me these two little girls (like 10 yrs old?) were playing DDR. They basically played We Will Rock You on Beginner 5 times in a row. I am not making this up. Then their parents told them to leave, and the one girl had put a quarter in the machine. So she kept punching and kicking the coin return thing until it got stuck and you couldn't PUT any more quarters in. Fortunately they'd left a credit in the machine so I played off that, but... bleh. The guys who played after me kicked it a bunch of times until the button popped back out.

Bowling was good. I got a turkey for my first time EVER. Bowled a 158 the first game and a 126 the second, so I guess I am averaging in the 130's still. Afterwards I played a game of DDR with Keel, who had shown up in the meantime with some other guy I've never seen before. Chris wasn't there, unfortunately. Still, Kyle gets these insanely good PA scores but insists he never wants to enter a tournament. We're talking like... 10 greats on .59 Double Heavy Extra Stage. Oh well. Hey, I almost AA'ed AM-3P Heavy. 37 greats. 34's an AA. Whee!

Came home, been doing random stuff. Mostly worrying about other people. Why is it every time I come home, bad stuff happens to everyone? I'm worried about Rumi of course, and now suddenly Mark isn't sure he can come down with Fuj and Cory, because he can't find his passport. And Steve being sick, blah. Other stuff... this weekend is supposed to rock, tomorrow night is a big hangout at IZ, and Saturday's the Team Tourney and another Bemani party. I'm going to get to help Steve do math, which makes me happy - I like doing math. :) BUT, if things all go wrong, the weekend will suck. I hope that doesn't happen.

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Hooray for your first turkey! I've had a couple of doubles, maybe three, but somehow never a third. Perhaps the fact that there's a special name for it makes the challenge harder than it ought to be if it were just "a triple".

Glad to hear that you're getting better and better at those hard songs, just in time for the team tournament. Have a ball - I'm sure you will! :-)

What sort of mathematics do you most enjoy doing? I'm the other way round - I like math far more than I like doing math and that's why I'm in this sort-of mess today.

[dr4b]

I'm not entering the team tourney, I'm going to be helping out with it. I couldn't get a team together in time, basically. So I'll be using my head instead of my heels. Whee! But I'm psyched anyway, this is the first tournament of this sort that we know of, and if all the people show up there'll be 10 teams, or 50 people, competing. Wowie!

I dunno, I like all sorts of math, but to be honest, I'm best with working with actual numbers, not the theory stuff. I'm pretty quick at arithmetic and have a really good sense of how numbers relate together. I'm the kind of person who likes calculating random things for fun, and has Pi memorized to 100 places.

The ceremonial one-sided scarf of the Oxford University Invariant (recreational maths) Society

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Sounds damn fine - a fifty-person competition is always pretty big beer. Be warned inspired that you are pioneering new ground which will eventually lead to regular coverage on ESPN2, a slot in the X Games and a purportedly-serious-but-only-kidding TV serial drama in the style of Roller Derby. Lots of pics, please! :-)

Spoke to a friend on the phone yesterday and told him a phone number over the phone line. He said he couldn't write it down but I told him he'd remember it easily: 0870 010 1296. 0870 is fairly standard, sort of like US 1-800 (but a fixed low rate rather than free). 010 is what the international dialing code used to be. (011 in the US, ne?) 1296 is 6^4. He laughed when I pointed this last part out and chose to remember it as 12 followed by 8*12.

That's pretty damn geeky, even for me.

[random-boy.livejournal.com]

When I was bowling regularly in leagues, there always seemed to be some special factor involved in getting a turkey. For instance, one had to use a slightly different grip, spin, or stance in order to overcome the hex associated with bowling a turkey. I'm trying to think of a good D&D analogy, but being someone who has little experience with dice games, I can't. There was always a higher chance that rolling a fourth strike would follow rolling three strikes than rolling a third strike would follow rolling two strikes.