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Comment on 2009 for Will Clarke by brendan mcnally

brendan mcnally — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:15:02 +0000

Hey Will, Greetings from Not-PRague and not-the-M=Streets either. I’m back in Dallas eking out a writerly existence a year after my book came out. I’m selling stuff regularly to D Magazine now and writing a novel what don’t have no Nazis in it.

Gee, so I guess I’m not going to run into you at the Lakewood starbux or White Rock Coffee. Quelle Frommage. You’re in DC. Wow, congrats. It’s my other hometown I left Dallas for. lived there from 66-76 and 84-92. Hope you enjoy it. Columbia Heights, I don’t think it was considered viable when I lived there last. Mt Pleasant was my last home, before that Dupont Circle. I love DC. I hope you have a good time there. You need to be young.

Anyway, best of luck on everything. Next time you walk across Dupont Circle, tell it Brendan McNally says hey.

Comment on 2009 for Will Clarke by Sparklebot

Sparklebot — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:17:46 +0000

You are lucky to have found a new job in this economy. Some of us are still struggling!

Comment on It’s not a big deal, but… Hash Browns Math Clowns by Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:53:32 +0000

One last thought… I promise. I wonder what would happen if you went in to a Waffle House and order all 17 “options” dry light triple hashbrowns. What would they say? How much would it cost? Is this _really_ possible in practice? Inquiring minds want to know.

Hmmmmmmm.

-M.

Comment on It’s not a big deal, but… Hash Browns Math Clowns by Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:51:11 +0000

Okay, while their calculations may be technically correct, who in their right mind would put both Thousand Island and Blue Cheese dressing on their hashbrowns? And this list is a little hokey. It sounds like they’re just making stuff up. Where’s mustard? Where’s the syrup? Where’s the bed of toast? Those three additions alone would bring them up to around 28 million ways. I guess even the morons over in the Waffle House marketing department have their limits.

Based on the menu, there’s only 1,536 permutations. And the question remains, why exaggerate? 1,536 is still more than I can eat… which is saying a lot.

Thanks for keeping the House honest.

-M.

Comment on It’s not a big deal, but… Hash Browns Math Clowns by Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:34:24 +0000

I think it’s much worse than you thought.

Each option is binary - either you get it or you don’t.

So the total number of combinations isn’t 9! but 2^9 = 512.

Then multiply times 3 for small, medium & large = 1,536.

In other words, almost 3.5 million shy of 3.5 million.

-M.

Comment on It’s not a big deal, but… Hash Browns Math Clowns by Kellan

Kellan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:41:22 +0000

I’ve actually ran those numbers in Waffle House before and came to the same conclusion. What I find to be interesting is that there’s really no need to inflate the numbers from your calculated 1,000,000+ to their 3,500,000+.

In the end, what’s the mental impact of the difference between those two numbers when taken in the context of picking a 4:00 AM breakfast joint? I’d say that the difference approaches zero. One or three and a half million, either way, it’s an impressive number of hash brown combinations and leaves Waffle House in undisputed first place in the hash brown customizabiltiy race.

Yet, there’s still someone out there who has to invent bogus ways of cooking hash browns just to artificially raise the number of possible combinations for a net impact of near zero.

Great post, you’re in my RSS reader now.

Comment on It’s not a big deal, but… Hash Browns Math Clowns by Abby

Abby — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:32:44 +0000

I don’t know who you are, but my friend showed me your blog b/c of your grammar post since I’m a bit of a grammar nerd. Anyway, just wanted to say your stuff is great and nerdily hilarious. I also think you might have too much time on your hands.

Comment on Preventive vs. Preventative by pharaba

pharaba — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:02:45 +0000

Thank you for definitating these for us! It only took 4 pages of google to find your answer. Why is this such an elusitative pair to nail down??

Comment on It’s not a big deal, but… Hash Browns Math Clowns by Charlie Holder

Charlie Holder — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:45:16 +0000

Ordering with a British accent. Classic.

Comment on T9 Textonymity by eoingrosch

eoingrosch — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:22:10 +0000

cool post dude. i love T9, and i’m stuck with it since i don’t want to pay for the data for a smartphone, and i’ve gotten into texting.

how about a post on the different methods of wiping your ass? i thought that was a great conversation, although obviously “gross.”