thus spake seven

laughing at my own tags

okay i’ll stop now

Nightcrawler is such a BAMF.

help?

frecklesmakemeuseless:

In 1954 the English runner Roger Bannister broke the four minute barrier for the mile with a time of 3:59.4 s (3 min and 59.4 sec). In 1999 the Moroccan runner Hicham el-Guerrouj set a record of 3:43.13 s for the mile. If these two runners had run in the same race, each running the entire race at the average speed that earned him a place in the record books, el-Guerrouj would have won. By how many meters?

If no one else has helped yet:

First you need to convert their times into seconds, so that you’re dealing with one unit of time (e.g. Bannister’s 3:59.4 = (3x60) +59.4 = 239.4s).

Then determine how many meters are in a mile (either by looking up the conversion and doing the math or just googling it).

Then, when you have the number of meters in a mile, determine how many meters they ran in one second to determine their average speed. I’m gonna do it in feet, since I don’t wanna do your homework for you:

5280ft/239.4s = xft/1s. Cross multiply and divide. Bannister ran 22.05 feet in one second, 22.05ft/s (which is fucking insane oh my god).

Then multiply his number of ft/s by the number of seconds it took el-Gerrouj to run the mile (223.13). That tells you how many feet he’d run when el-Gerrouj finished.

22.05 ft/s * 223.13s = 4921.16 ft

Then subtract that number of feet from the total 5280 and that tells you by how many feet el-Gerrouj won!

(Source: thisisnotmyblogguys)

Holy Kansas City Shuffle, Batman

thebearjay:

Petty Cash

abitmoreinfo:

I place $20 in a box.

So do you.

Now the box contains $40, and we both know it.

I sell the box to you for $30.

And we both walk away with a $10 profit.

What is this? Witchcraft? 

Me: Start with $20 + your $20 - $40 I sold to you + $30 you paid = $30
You: Start with $20 - $20 you contributed - $30 you paid + $40 you bought = $10

Remind me of this the next time I want to con $10 out of someone.