Geek Pizza
Oct. 5th, 2005 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackAfter FF a few of us went off to geek pizza; very aptly named :) Most people way underformalise "do we want pudding" and "have we all paid the right amount", we err slightly but consistently on the other side. But I assume it goes smoother without people who don't normally go.
Certainly "n garlic breads" is the correct approach in a pizza restaurant, a la "n popadums" in an indian, as opposed to "Oh, is it my turn already? Um, um, um, what's everyone else having?" As we were leaving, the waitress asked if we'd left the money, and on learning a card had been used, said "Oh *eyebrows* you normally pay with cash."
I recon that then, my life was not sitcom, but webcomic. Much conversation fitted the "Story, more story, punchline" or "Remark, witty remark, punchline" format.
I'm not sure what medium I should prefer. For instance, in sitcoms/soap-operas (it seems to be somewhere in the middle) you can be fairly sure that everyone, regardless, will have much the same standard of living. And if don't have any major changes for a month will spontaneously be run over, have an affair, be arrested, graduate, or something.
In a webcomic, pretty much anything could be happening so long as there's a stream of punchlines. I could even estimate time by them, and arrange for things to happen on or off camera. Eg. prevent plot by supplying much punchlines and visual panoramas, or vice versa.
Post-pizza we talked about spherical geometry. My mind can still cope with maths problems, but lots of the knowledge has leaked out. I do still enjoy limbering up, though; programming, even abstractly, isn't quite the same. I should do *something* mathematical, but I don't know what.
Then we played egg-cup whist. Estimation whist. [52/n] cards each, make secret bid for number of tricks expected (by placing coins under an egg cup). Score one pt per trick made, plus 10 for a correct guess. Before the round, the total number of tricks bid is announced by counting the *remaining* coins. In retrospect, it's probably not particularly better than playing either announcing-each-bid (sequentially or together) or not-announcing-at-all, depending which style you prefer.
But the 10/1 ratio seemed about right insofar as the leading players approximately tied with different numbers of correct guesses. I did badly, but I enjoyed it I think with practice I can do that sort of game.
And then I can be a game webcomic, a la Order of the Stick or Absurd Notions, which would be cool!
Certainly "n garlic breads" is the correct approach in a pizza restaurant, a la "n popadums" in an indian, as opposed to "Oh, is it my turn already? Um, um, um, what's everyone else having?" As we were leaving, the waitress asked if we'd left the money, and on learning a card had been used, said "Oh *eyebrows* you normally pay with cash."
I recon that then, my life was not sitcom, but webcomic. Much conversation fitted the "Story, more story, punchline" or "Remark, witty remark, punchline" format.
I'm not sure what medium I should prefer. For instance, in sitcoms/soap-operas (it seems to be somewhere in the middle) you can be fairly sure that everyone, regardless, will have much the same standard of living. And if don't have any major changes for a month will spontaneously be run over, have an affair, be arrested, graduate, or something.
In a webcomic, pretty much anything could be happening so long as there's a stream of punchlines. I could even estimate time by them, and arrange for things to happen on or off camera. Eg. prevent plot by supplying much punchlines and visual panoramas, or vice versa.
Post-pizza we talked about spherical geometry. My mind can still cope with maths problems, but lots of the knowledge has leaked out. I do still enjoy limbering up, though; programming, even abstractly, isn't quite the same. I should do *something* mathematical, but I don't know what.
Then we played egg-cup whist. Estimation whist. [52/n] cards each, make secret bid for number of tricks expected (by placing coins under an egg cup). Score one pt per trick made, plus 10 for a correct guess. Before the round, the total number of tricks bid is announced by counting the *remaining* coins. In retrospect, it's probably not particularly better than playing either announcing-each-bid (sequentially or together) or not-announcing-at-all, depending which style you prefer.
But the 10/1 ratio seemed about right insofar as the leading players approximately tied with different numbers of correct guesses. I did badly, but I enjoyed it I think with practice I can do that sort of game.
And then I can be a game webcomic, a la Order of the Stick or Absurd Notions, which would be cool!
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Date: 2005-10-05 02:46 pm (UTC)And I like the idea of geek pizza. "Use the intermediate value theorem to prove that, no matter how the olives are distributed on a pizza, it is possible to divide it in such a way that each person gets exactly one-half of the base and one-half of the olives. Hence, or otherwise, prove that olives are a Good Thing."
*grin*
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Date: 2005-10-05 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:06 pm (UTC)Teacher: Would you rather have 1/3 of a litre of milk, or 1/2 of a pint?
Child: The first... no, wait the latter[1].
Teacher: Oh. Um, why did you change your mind?
Child: I don't like milk.
[1] Paraphrased.
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 03:00 pm (UTC)Hence, or otherwise, prove that olives are a Good Thing.
Contradiction!
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:02 pm (UTC)*drooooool*
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:08 pm (UTC)