#BobDylan har været gennem Danmark med turneen #RoughAndRowdyWays. I den anledning besluttede jeg at kigge på teksterne til de sange, han sang. (Jeg gættede på forhånd på, at det ville blive de samme som i Stockholm 3 dage før, og det viste sig at holde stik.) Jeg siger undskyld på forhånd. Man kan naturligvis ikke reducere sådanne sangtekster til ganske få sætninger.

Jeg baserer det her på en fundet setlist . Hvis ikke andet er noteret, så er nummeret fra Rough and Rowdy Ways, 2020.

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (1968)

Lad os koncentrere os om hinanden på enhver måde (detaljeret liste) og være hinandens skattebasser. Det kan inkludere en flaske et eller andet mums.

It Ain’t Me, Babe (1964)

Du vil have mig som kæreste (detaljeret liste), men det kommer ikke på tale. Faktisk, skrid. “Leave at your own chosen speed.” Du har ikke en plads i mit hjerte. Jeg har også allerede en anden kæreste.

I Contain Multitudes

Jeg er alt muligt (detaljeret liste). “I’m just like Anne Frank – like Indiana Jones / And them British bad boys the Rolling Stones / I go right to the edge – I go right to the end / I go right where all things lost – are made good again.” Jeg er i enden af et langt liv. Jeg er på vej videre og vil godt/ikke have dig med.

False Prophet

Jeg tror, det her er (endnu) et spark i retning af “lad nu være med at tro, at jeg er jeres profet — jeg er bare mig”. “I’m the enemy of treason – the enemy of strife / I’m the enemy of the unlived meaningless life / I ain’t no false prophet – I just know what I know / I go where only the lonely can go.” “You lusty old mule.”

When I Paint My Masterpiece (1971)

Umiddelbart en sang om at være i Rom og se alle seværdighederne (detaljeret liste) og få malet sit mesterværk. Men det er også rart at tage videre og komme hjem. Og alting bliver bedre, når mesterværket er færdigt.

Black Rider

Jeg tror, den handler om døden. Og det er kompliceret. Jeg er (ikke) parat.

My Own Version of You

Æhm. Frankenstein? Jeg vil lave min egen version af dig, med disse egenskaber (detaljeret liste). En version, der kan lide mig.

To Be Alone with You (1969)

Om aftenen er vi alene sammen. Det er rart af en masse årsager (detaljeret liste).

Crossing the Rubicon

Noget med en begyndelse. Verden har det skidt, lad os fikse den. Det er ikke det eneste sted, hvor jeg tænker, at der er noget vrede mod bl.a. Trump. Men det er også viklet ind i en historie om en elsket.

Desolation Row (1965)

En masse mennesker (detaljeret liste — okay, nu skal jeg nok stoppe), der holder til i et håbløst kvarter.

Key West (Philosopher Pirate)

Død. Kærlighed. Noget med at tage til Key West og — gå gennem en portal? Key West er i sig selv et godt sted at være.

Watching the River Flow (1971)

Der er et liv fyldt med tumult. Og så er der at sidde og kigge på floden. Fred.

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (1965)

Noget er slut. På tide at tage videre. “All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home / All your reindeer armies, are all going home.”

I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You

Elskede, du kan få mig, hvis du vil have mig. Det har taget lidt tid at nå frem til den tanke.

Mother of Muses

Noget om helte. Og godt nok er jeg poet, men jeg vil også gerne gøre noget vigtigt. Før jeg dør.

Goodbye Jimmy Reed

Religion! Noget om hvordan jeg er.

Every Grain of Sand (1981)

Religion! At bede om tilgivelse, at skrifte. Fristelse.

I am listening to the podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back. In episode 31-33 they discuss The Forensic Certified Public Accountant and the Cremated 64-SQUARES Financial Statements.

372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back

Real or fanfic

The spreadsheet !

Summary of important advice

Consistency, continuity.

• This team works on big cases, like a poker player.
• Talking about the chess museum in the present tense.
• Referring to things that haven’t been mentioned.

Be exciting. Have stakes.

• 2/3 through the book, new characters are still introduced, the plot isn’t moving.
• Solving the crime is just a small detail.

Flow. Chekhov’s gun.

• The criminal is a completely new person.
• Facts that are hard to understand, until you read the next chapter.

Realism. Being human.

• This huge house exploded. The death toll of 0 is waved away.
• They employ millions?
• People play checkers at the chess museum. Really?
• Marrying a person within 24 hours of meeting.
• Being able to feed your family is satisfying.
• Connection from names and skills to nickname.
• The team keeps breaking the law, like hacking FBI.
• Everybody’s happy. And top of their fields.
• Is that how courtship and proposal works?
• Huge prison sentences for doing nothing wrong.

Variety.

• I, Titus Uno, yadayada. 4 times in 1 sentence.
• Whole paragraphs are repeated.

Details: not too many, not too few.

• Explaining a conference call.
• She passed the first time. Is that good?

POV. Tone.

• … believe it or not…
• It looks like a hearing aid. “What did you say?”
• Titus Uno talks directly to the reader.
• “That makes me sick.” Titus?

Use words and phrases correctly.

• Blown to rubbish.
• Is that what cat burglar means?
• Being nice, sentence, what?
• Typos.
• Mixed metaphors. Top dog, totem pole.
• That’s not what pun means.
• 2 different fonts in the chapter headings.

Being funny

• Joking on your own joke, that isn’t funny. Author gives character silly name. Other character comments on this. (Mr. Woodcock.)
• When the name is too funny, like “Spider” Webb. On the nose.

Ep. 31, ch. 1-6

Don’t do this

• Repetition. I, Titus Uno, yadayada. 4 times in 1 sentence.
• Words. Blown to rubbish.
• Words. Is that what cat burglar means?
• Realism. This huge house exploded. The death toll of 0 is waved away.
• Words. Being nice, sentence, what?
• Realism. They employ millions?
• Typos.
• Details. Explaining a conference call.
• Continuity. This team works on big cases, like a poker player.
• POV. … believe it or not…
• POV. It looks like a hearing aid. “What did you say?”
• Continuity. Talking about the chess museum in the present tense.
• Realism. People play checkers at the chess museum. Really?
• Realism. Marrying a person within 24 hours of meeting.
• Realism. Being able to feed your family is satisfying.

Running gags

• Settle down.

Oops.

• Mike didn’t read chapter 6.

Real or fanfic, 51:34

• Mike guessing
• Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎

A moving duck. Actually a good expression.

Ep. 32, ch. 7-14

Don’t do this

• Excitement. 2/3 through the book, new characters are still introduced, the plot isn’t moving.
• Words. Mixed metaphors. Top dog, totem pole.
• Not funny. Joking on your own joke, that isn’t funny. Author gives character silly name. Other character comments on this. (Mr. Woodcock.)
• Not funny. When the name is too funny, like “Spider” Webb. On the nose.
• Realism. Connection from names and skills to nickname.
• Realism. The team keeps breaking the law, like hacking FBI.
• Variety. Whole paragraphs are repeated.
• Realism. Everybody’s happy. And top of their fields.
• Words. That’s not what pun means.
• POV. Titus Uno talks directly to the reader.
• Details. She passed the first time. Is that good?

Running gags

• Settle down.
• Who is the sheriff of 64-SQUARES?
• He believes…
• Ogden.

Oops.

• Mixing up choosing Titus Uno and choosing who calls TU.

Real or fanfic, 01:01:35

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎ Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ✔️
• (The last one was spoiled.)

There’s an org chart online. Made by patreons.

Ep. 33, ch. 15-end

Don’t do this

• Words. 2 different fonts in the chapter headings.
• Excitement. Solving the crime is just a small detail.
• Flow. The criminal is a completely new person.
• Continuity. Referring to things that haven’t been mentioned.
• Flow. Facts that are hard to understand, until you read the next chapter.
• Realism. Is that how courtship and proposal works?
• Realism. Huge prison sentences for doing nothing wrong.
• POV. “That makes me sick.” Titus?

Running gags

• Settle down.

Rankings, favorite on top

1. Eye of Argon
2. The Forensic…
3. Tekwar
4. Cline

This week the #puzzle is: Can You Reach the Edge of the Square? #average #geometry #trigonometry #integral

You start at the center of the unit square and then pick a random direction to move in, with all directions being equally likely. You move along this chosen direction until you reach a point on the perimeter of the unit square.

On average, how far can you expect to have traveled?

And for extra credit:

Let’s raise the stakes by a dimension. Now, you start at the center of a unit cube. Again, you pick a random direction to move in, with all directions being equally likely. You move along this direction until you reach a point on the surface of the unit cube.

On average, how far can you expect to have traveled?

Can You Reach the Edge of the Square?

Intermission:

I was the lucky person to be mentioned for my correct solution to the extra credit a week ago. Woohoo! And my request to not have my city/country translated into English was followed! Woohoo!

Highlight to reveal (possibly incorrect) solution:

Program Desmos

Let’s monte carlo this, baby!

For my program, WLOG, I assume I chose a direction in the upper right quadrant of the square, with an angle between 0 and 45 degrees.

Just to make sure, I also mess with a solution in Desmos, using integrals.

Both methods give me something like 0.561.

And for extra credit:

Desmos

Same program, new Desmos. Similar reasoning. Both methods give me something like 0.617.

I am listening to the podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back. In episode 22-29 they discuss Tekwar.

372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back

Real or fanfic

The spreadsheet ! For the first time, the guessing skill was significantly better than flipping a coin! In 3 out of 6 episodes, all guesses were correct! Magnificent!

Summary of important advice

Consistency, continuity.

• Jake has no idea how Gomez got in / Jake (from his own perspective) gave him access recently.
• Anachronistic speech.
• It was Beth. But it wasn’t Beth.
• Jake hates androids. Jake finds android Beth beautiful. Jake calls her Beth.
• Complicated plan to get Jake where he was going anyway, almost killing him on the way.
• The cynical kid is suddenly naive and trusting.
• The hair of Gomez isn’t alive anymore. On the other hand, now he sounds like Swiers.

Be exciting. Have stakes.

• Sitting around and talking about people not there. Not action. Boring.
• First sentence in chapter: Jake woke up. Non-actiony.
• Mentioning a super interesting court case in passing only.
• 1st sentence: The aircar started to sputter. Flat.
• No stakes. Nobody’s using tek.

Flow. Chekhov’s gun.

• Suddenly a new conversation begins.
• Characters described in detail, but only appearing once.
• Hokori and Sands have been mentioned so many times and still haven’t appeared.
• We hear almost nothing about the tek war phenomenon.
• And then the big bad dies within seconds.
• Checkov’s password not used.

Originality.

• Stereotypical Mexico.
• A lot of crusty detectives.

Realism. Being human.

• Punishment = suspended animation? Rehabilitation?
• Print of various shapes. Triangular?
• Apparently the robot searched for information for 14 seconds and THEN said something. That’s a long time. And very specific.
• Odd dialogue to mention the year.
• They were ALWAYS razzing him? Because his father was THIN?
• Surprising your wife is a good idea.
• Noticing what’s usually there.
• In the future all areas will be sectors.
• A British robot in California.
• Jack is talking to himself, a lot.
• Noises from Jack’s own apartment? Draw a gun! Oh wait, it was just a vacuum starting at a weird time!
• Jack doesn’t understand the concept of recordings.
• Tapping out a very, very specific fantasy.
• Gomez’ hair is alive.
• His hair seemed to bounce.
• A colleague of Jake could clear his name, but wanted money first.
• Pointing upwards with the thumb.
• As you know, Bob. Persons telling each other what they already know. Instead of letting the narrator tell it.
• The term kamikaze isn’t well-known anymore.
• Slender, but pretty.
• 1940s movies are still well-known. Girl Friday.
• For 3 minutes the house is disappearing, and they just stand there.
• Do people leave forwarding addresses at hotels?
• Beth must be super hot. Universal agreement.
• Jake happens to know how to fix androids.
• Jake is really hurt by Beth sassing him.
• Both chrome and very life-like androids are available.
• Warbride whips up a mood and then stops.
• So many mechanical arms.

Variety.

• Robot printer, happens a lot.
• Repetition. All laughs sound weird.
• Stereotypes. Cab driver.
• Repetition. At what age did he marry?
• Repetition. The state of Chihuahua. The exact center/middle.
• Constant reminders we’re in Mexico.
• Keep repeating that Jake’s foot is booted.

Details: not too many, not too few.

• Chrome everything. Do we need to know the chrome man has a chrome brain? Keep reminding us.
• Some sort of smuggler. Assorted. Vague, shouldn’t have been mentioned in the first place.
• Apparently the robot searched for information for 14 seconds and THEN said something. That’s a long time. And very specific.
• Unsubtling: that coffin was where he slept.
• Wife’s full name, too much.
• Suicide committed suicide. Stop here?
• Including that the correct button was pushed.
• Noting a time period with a weird length and it wasn’t needed.
• She is naked. Also her shoulders are naked.
• If the wall had been there, he would have slammed into it.

POV. Tone.

• Gross. The hero craps his pants.
• Name, Hambrick, distracting, funny.
• Noir isn’t just talking about the darkness all the time.
• … said the robot pimp disdainfully.

Use words and phrases correctly.

• Calling something a sky or air (vehicle), with no explanation or significance.
• Something slightly resembles a laugh. What does it actually sound like?
• Lank, not lanky.
• Plas everything. Sounds futury, dumb.
• Pronunciation of lazgun?
• Where she stores her clothes is a habit.
• Shrugging one shoulder.
• Reinventing pleather.
• A lot of whilst.
• Italicized words are at this point fully integrated words from Spanish.
• Bad sentence structure. Adding amigo to a sentence in the wrong place. “It’s, amigo, a possibility worth mentioning.” “Until he showed up last night, I wasn’t even certain he hadn’t decided I was as crooked as everyone else thinks I am.”
• A quiet smile. They can be loud?
• Just adding moonbase at the beginning.
• Age = math exercise. ‘Jake said, “Hey, fifty-six isn’t that old. I’m little more than a half dozen years from there myself, Gomez.” ‘
• Xmas.
• A sentence changing pov and tense more than once.
• Not being consistent with whether plas-whatever is 1 or 2 words or hyphenated.
• Name, Hambrick, distracting, funny.
• Yes, but what color is licorice?
• Renaming cab to landcab.
• A quirky alley.
• Commence (used wrong), start, begin.
• So many commas.
• Bulbs of light.
• Going back and forth between human and cyborg.
• Place dialogue tag in the middle. “That sure isn’t,” complained Swiers, “going to help our case”.
• Using Warbride and Elana interchangeably.
• Passwords should be dramatic?
• Using tek to relive the path (as is or better) and create a better present. What else is there?
• Chinese in one sentence, Japanese in the next.

Other stuff

• Racism.
• Racist against robots AND Mexicans.

Ep. 22

Ranking.

1. Eye of Argon (most fun)
2. Cline

Ep. 23, ch. 1-7

Don’t do this

• Vehicles are sky or air. There’s a difference? What? Does it matter?
• Chrome everything. Do we need to know the chrome man has a chrome brain? Keep reminding us.
• Some sort of smuggler. Assorted. Vague, shouldn’t have been mentioned in the first place.
• Something slightly resembles a laugh. What does it actually sound like?
• Robot printer, happens a lot.
• Lank, not lanky.
• Punishment = suspended animation? Rehabilitation?
• Print of various shapes. Triangular?
• Apparently the robot searched for information for 14 seconds and THEN said something. That’s a long time. And very specific.
• Gross. The hero craps his pants.
• Unsubtling: that coffin was where he slept.
• Repetition. All laughs sound weird.
• Odd dialogue to mention the year.
• Plas everything. Sounds futury, dumb.
• Pronunciation of lazgun?
• They were ALWAYS razzing him? Because his father was THIN?
• Stereotypes. Cab driver.
• Racism.
• Surprising your wife is a good idea.
• Repetition. At what age did he marry?
• Noticing what’s usually there.
• In the future all areas will be sectors.
• A British robot in California.
• Jack is talking to himself, a lot.
• Noises from Jack’s own apartment? Draw a gun! Oh wait, it was just a vacuum starting at a weird time!
• Where she stores her clothes is a habit.
• Wife’s full name, too much.
• Shrugging one shoulder.
• Suddenly a new conversation begins.
• Suicide committed suicide. Stop here?
• Jack doesn’t understand the concept of recordings.
• Tapping out a very, very specific fantasy.
• Reinventing pleather.

Running gags

• Clinean.
• Ogden.

Oops.

• Odgen.

Real or fanfic, 44:22

• Mike guessing.
• Fanfic ✔️ Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 24, ch. 8-11

Don’t do this

• Sitting around and talking about people not there. Not action. Boring.
• Jake has no idea how Gomez got in / Jake (from his own perspective) gave him access recently.
• A lot of whilst.
• Italicized words are at this point fully integrated words from Spanish.
• Gomez’ hair is alive.
• His hair seemed to bounce.
• A colleague of Jake could clear his name, but wanted money first.
• Bad sentence structure. Adding amigo to a sentence in the wrong place. “It’s, amigo, a possibility worth mentioning.” “Until he showed up last night, I wasn’t even certain he hadn’t decided I was as crooked as everyone else thinks I am.”
• Pointing upwards with the thumb.
• As you know, Bob. Persons telling each other what they already know. Instead of letting the narrator tell it.
• A quiet smile. They can be loud?
• Just adding moonbase at the beginning.
• Age = math exercise. ‘Jake said, “Hey, fifty-six isn’t that old. I’m little more than a half dozen years from there myself, Gomez.” ‘
• Xmas.
• First sentence in chapter: Jake woke up. Non-actiony.
• Including that the correct button was pushed.
• A sentence changing pov and tense more than once.
• Not being consistent with whether plas-whatever is 1 or 2 words or hyphenated.
• Name, Hambrick, distracting, funny.
• The term kamikaze isn’t well-known anymore.
• Yes, but what color is licorice?
• Slender, but pretty.
• 1940s movies are still well-known. Girl Friday.

Running gags

• Long pauses in dialogue.
• Seemed to.
• Talking to himself.
• Settle down.
• Nobody laughs normally.
• Fuzzy.

Oops.

• Self-correction is actually fine.

Real or fanfic, 55:35

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎ Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 25, ch. 12-15

Don’t do this

• Characters described in detail, but only appearing once.
• Noir isn’t just talking about the darkness all the time.
• Mentioning a super interesting court case in passing only.
• For 3 minutes the house is disappearing, and they just stand there.
• Renaming cab to landcab.
• Stereotypical Mexico.
• Racist against robots AND Mexicans.
• A lot of crusty detectives.
• Do people leave forwarding addresses at hotels?
• A quirky alley.
• Beth must be super hot. Universal agreement.
• Commence (used wrong), start, begin.

Running gags

• Meetings.
• Discreet openings.
• Doing nothing for minutes.
• Living hair.

Oops.

• Missed the explanation for which parts of the house are real.
• Cyborg and robot, not the same.

Real or fanfic, 58:10

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ❎ Real ❎ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 26, ch. 16-21

Don’t do this

• 1st sentence: The aircar started to sputter. Flat.
• Anachronistic speech.
• Noting a time period with a weird length and it wasn’t needed.
• It was Beth. But it wasn’t Beth.
• Jake hates androids. Jake finds android Beth beautiful. Jake calls her Beth.
• Jake happens to know how to fix androids.
• She is naked. Also her shoulders are naked.
• So many commas.
• Repetition. The state of Chihuahua. The exact center/middle.
• Bulbs of light.
• Jake is really hurt by Beth sassing him.
• Constant reminders we’re in Mexico.
• Hokori and Sands have been mentioned so many times and still haven’t appeared.

Running gags

• Hot daughter.
• Settle down.
• Discreet openings.
• Ogden.
• Shatlard.
• A variety of classic 80s dance moves.

Oops.

• The 1st time a word was shortened was not. The actual 1st was pop(ulation).
• Taking charisma for beauty?
• Talking about the programming of an android, when she’s simply an upload of the real Beth and should talk like her.
• Odgen.
• Deus ex knacks.

Real or fanfic, 39:34

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 27, ch. 22-26

Don’t do this

• Complicated plan to get Jake where he was going anyway, almost killing him on the way.
• Keep repeating that Jake’s foot is booted.
• Going back and forth between human and cyborg.
• Both chrome and very life-like androids are available.
• Place dialogue tag in the middle. “That sure isn’t,” complained Swiers, “going to help our case”.

Running gags

• Odgen.
• Shatlard.

Real or fanfic, 41:47

• Mike guessing
• Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 28, ch. 27-30

Don’t do this

• Warbride whips up a mood and then stops.
• So many mechanical arms.
• Using Warbride and Elana interchangeably.
• No stakes. Nobody’s using tek.
• Passwords should be dramatic?
• We hear almost nothing about the tek war phenomenon.
• Using tek to relive the path (as is or better) and create a better present. What else is there?

Running gags

• The sweating fat man.
• The exact center.
• Dialogue tag in the middle.
• Odgen.
• Lag.
• John Candy. Non sequitur.

Oops.

• She’s part cyborg.

Real or fanfic, 49:17

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎ Fanfic ✔️ Real ✔️

Ep. 29, ch. 31-end

Don’t do this

• The cynical kid is suddenly naive and trusting.
• … said the robot pimp disdainfully.
• Chinese in one sentence, Japanese in the next.
• If the wall had been there, he would have slammed into it.
• And then the big bad dies within seconds.
• The hair of Gomez isn’t alive anymore. On the other hand, now he sounds like Swiers.
• Checkov’s password not used.

Running gags

• Settle down.
• Curing cancer in 1 sentence.

Oops.

• Not knowing the expression “tumble to”. Or keen as a verb.

A fanfic earlier was a rewrite of bits from the book. 😦

Quality: Between Cline and Theis.

1. Eye of Argon (most fun)
2. Tekwar
3. Cline

This week the #puzzle is: Let’s Make a Tic-Tac-Deal! #probabilities

The game of Tic-Tac-Deal 2.0 has a 3-by-3 square grid with the numbers 3 through 11, arranged as follows:

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

You start by rolling a standard pair of six-sided dice and add the two numbers rolled. You place an X on the board on the square that contains the sum. If the sum is a 2 or 12, or if you roll a sum that you have previously rolled, then your roll is wasted.

If you have exactly three rolls of the dice, what are your chances of getting three Xs in a row (either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?

And for extra credit:

In the actual game, you get five rolls instead of three. But as before, rolling a 2, a 12, or a number that you have already rolled is a wasted turn.

With five rolls of the dice, what are your chances of getting three Xs in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally?

Let’s Make a Tic-Tac-Deal!

Highlight to reveal (possibly incorrect) solution:

Program

I’m in a hurry this week, so I just monto carloed this one.

 3 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.05806
 4 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.18999
 5 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.36138
 6 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.52770
 7 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.66560
 8 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.76980
 9 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.84440
10 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.89594
11 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.93079
12 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.95404
13 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.96941
14 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.97959
15 rolls, accumulated probability = 0.98632

For the case with 3 rolls, I also did the math directly.

3-4-5	2	3	4	24
6-7-8	5	6	5	150
9-10-11	2	3	4	24
3-6-9	2	5	4	40
4-7-10	3	6	3	54
5-8-11	2	5	4	40
3-7-11	2	6	2	24
5-7-9	4	6	4	96
				452

E.g., for the first row, for every possible roll with 2 dice (there are 36), 2 of them have a sum of 3, 3 of them have a sum of 4 and 4 of them have a sum of 5. These 3 numbers multiplied give 24. All the numbers in the right column, multiplied by 3!/36³, are probabilities. The summed probability is therefore 0.0581275720164609, rounded to 0.058128. This checks out.

This week the #puzzle is: When Will You Cross Your Path? #geometry #angle

Anita the ant is going for a walk in the sand, leaving a trail as she goes. First, she walks 1 inch in a straight line. Then she rotates counterclockwise by an angle 𝝋, after which she walks another 2 inches. She rotates counterclockwise an angle 𝝋 again, after which she walks 3 inches. She keeps doing this over and over again, rotating counterclockwise an angle 𝝋 and then walking 1 inch farther than she did in the previous segment.

At some point during her journey, she crosses over her initial 1-inch segment. By “cross over,” I am including the two end points of that first segment.

Anita realizes that 𝝋 was the smallest possible angle such that she crossed over her 1-inch segment. (Among the ants, she’s known for her mathematical prowess.)

How long was the segment along which she first crossed over the 1-inch segment? Your answer should be a whole number of inches.

And for extra credit:

It’s time for you to check Anita’s work. What was the measure of angle 𝝋?

Remember, this was the smallest possible angle for each turn such that she crossed over her 1-inch segment at some later point.

When Will You Cross Your Path?

Highlight to reveal (possibly incorrect) solution:

Desmos. Image 1. Image 2.

My method is to recreate Anita’s path in Desmos and play around with it. Along the way I captured a couple of interesting images. When trying to find the angle, I zoomed in and added digits, until I thought I had enough.

Solutions: The segment is 4 inches long. The angle is 138.59°.

I am listening to the podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back. In episode 19-21 they discuss Eye of Argon.

372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back

Real or fanfic

The spreadsheet !

Summary of important advice

Consistency, continuity.

• Willing prostitutes. The unwilling quit.
• Untold agony = a disheartened emotion.
• Stating an angry remark.

Be exciting. Have stakes.

• Very long descriptions of what the soldiers are wearing.

Flow. Chekhov’s gun.

• Flashback not clearly marked.
• Physiology, sleeping, eating.

Realism. Being human.

• Impossible facial expressions.
• Hitting between the balls.
• How can they bear to live under such oppression?

Variety.

• Repetition of mount (horse). Wench.
• Ovals. Eyes, heads etc.
• A lot of lips.

Details: not too many, not too few.

• A lot of adjectives.
• After an indiscriminate period…
• Long, visual description, but hard to picture.
• Beady grey organs of sight.

POV. Tone.

• So many adverbs.
• Not just using “said”.
• Seemingly… Author, don’t you know?

Use words and phrases correctly. Punctuation.

• So many typos. Including in the fantasy words.
• How to pronounce Grignr.
• To shine dully.
• Who/what smells foul?
• A lot of commas, not clarifying.
• A lithe and opaque nose.
• She questioned?
• Dickered with the notion.
• Plural of shaman is shamen?
• Impossible to decode the sentences.
• The loincloth turned into a G-string.
• Changing tense.
• Pig in one sentence, dog in the next.

Ep. 19

MST3K for eye of argon .

Ep. 20, ch. 1-4

Don’t do this

• So many typos. Including in the fantasy words.
• How to pronounce Grignr.
• A lot of adjectives.
• To shine dully.
• Repetition of mount (horse). Wench.
• Flashback not clearly marked.
• Who/what smells foul?
• A lot of commas, not clarifying.
• Willing prostitutes. The unwilling quit.
• A lithe and opaque nose.
• Ovals. Eyes, heads etc.
• She questioned?
• Stating an angry remark.
• After an indiscriminate period…
• Dickered with the notion.
• Long, visual description, but hard to picture.
• Plural of shaman is shamen?
• Untold agony = a disheartened emotion.
• Physiology, sleeping, eating.
• Beady grey organs of sight.

Running gags

• Hell of a rig.
• An alien observing and describing human behaviour.
• Bulging sinews, see a doctor.
• After an indiscriminate period…

Oops.

• Conan the Barbarian uses slut a certain way?

Real or fanfic, 58:36

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎ Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ❎ Real ❎

Ep. 21, ch. 5-end

Don’t do this

• Impossible facial expressions.
• So many adverbs.
• Hitting between the balls.
• Impossible to decode the sentences.
• Very long descriptions of what the soldiers are wearing.
• The loincloth turned into a G-string.
• The tediously honed pelvis of the rodent.
• Changing tense.
• Not just using “said”.
• Seemingly… Author, don’t you know?
• How can they bear to live under such oppression?
• Pig in one sentence, dog in the next.
• A lot of lips.

Running gags

• Ovals.
• Sluts.
• Writing in a hurry.

Oops.

• Thinks the ergonomic mallet was a cup.
• Have read the afterword, missed the mention of Conan?

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. toget.

Lang togtur.

Jeg tog et par billeder gennem vinduerne. Jeg blev bl.a. optaget af, at en skov kan danne en slags skyline, sådan en takket linje mod himlen.

Og dermed er min reportage fra sommerferien slut!

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. alle mulige små steder, der ikke får deres egen side.

Tidligt eksperimenterede vi med at finde kiosker, hvor de solgte den lokale avis. Det betød bl.a. en tur til sygehuset. Selve sygehuset så interessant ud. Og jeg glemte fuldstændig at fotografere det, så her er en kollage af andres billeder.

Viborg har et lille tog, der fungerer som en hop-on-hop-off bus. Med 2 stop. Men der bliver fortalt om de interessante steder undervejs, så den er god nok. Vi brugte den på en halv tur, mest fordi vi havde ondt i benene.

Diverse landskab (bl.a. en bakke), og en sky. Og nogle blomsterdimser, der pyntede rundt omkring og muligvis er lavet af plastic.

Og ikke apropos noget som helst: Manglende evne til at stave eller Når Man Bliver Vildført Af AI/OCR. (Der står Trykke. Hvad burde der have stået??? Og hvor mange stavefejl får du det til? Men vi elsker dig naturligvis alligevel, Elias .) Og et forkert gæt på en bogtitel. (Deltageren gættede B, det var C.)