Warning: This idea may have actual merit. The authors do not claim responsibility for posting a realistic or otherwise reasonable idea.
Ever been taken to a table at a diner only to see the busdude take away some plates half full of side dishes? Ever think about asking them to leave it behind as an appetizer? It's time to start a new kind of restaurant for all of us dirty kids who don't care about germs and hate seeing all that food go to waste!
Consider the assumption that all parties have equal hunger and order meals of equal sizes. Think about it: One party isn't super hungry and leaves 10% of their meal behind. The next group eats that 10%, and so their hunger is diminished by the same amount, causing them to leave 20% of their meal behind.
The effect snowballs, and every 10 customers, someone gets a free meal! We all get to enjoy a free appetizer (except for that first party, who might receive it gratis for being part of the great cycle), no food gets wasted, and people keep coming back both for our delicious cuisine and in hopes of winning that theoretical every-10-customers lottery! Of course, not everyone has the same hunger, or orders the same-sized meal, but that thought experiment would occur in less-mathematically-precise, less-repeatable ways!
If you think this is gross and unsanitary, you probably won't frequent this restaurant. If you are from the health department, please don't come to this restaurant. But if you don't like seeing food go to waste, this may just be the place for you.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Unified Field Fighting Force, Go!
A brave cadre of heroes lives among us! The Four Interactions is their name, and fighting the enemies of the laws of the universe is their game. Our heroes are:
Graviton Man - Using his great mass, he draws enemies in close like a great Scorpion (the Mortal Kombat one) so that he might pummel them with his vast strength! Though his enemies may flee a great distance, they can only asymptotically escape his grasp.
Electromagnetia - Wielding her powerful Photons(TM), the lovely Electromagnetia can use pulses to throw enemy technology into disarray, extremely shortwave beams to imbue them with a deadly sickness, or simple high-energy emissions to attack many enemies at once!
Strong Nucleo - With his mysterious Gluon Gun, Nucleo can bind enemies together, even causing them to lose mass! If he reverses the gun's polarity, watch out! He might just unbind his enemies' nuclei!
Little Nukey - Strong Nucleo's little brother can drive his enemies to illness and even decomposition with his special power, Beta Decay!
Fighting for the well-being of our physical universe, our heroes must every day battle the scum and villainy of space-time such as their arch-rival, Maxwell's Demon. But their individual powers alone are not always enough to defeat their enemies. Strong Nucleo, his wife Electromagnetia, and their pal Little Nukey can fuse together to form the powerful Grand Unification! This, of course, takes very high energies, so they need the help of their human allies. At the peak of their strength, all four fighters can combine into the Unified Field Fighting Force, an unstoppable beacon of fighting!
Graviton Man - Using his great mass, he draws enemies in close like a great Scorpion (the Mortal Kombat one) so that he might pummel them with his vast strength! Though his enemies may flee a great distance, they can only asymptotically escape his grasp.
Electromagnetia - Wielding her powerful Photons(TM), the lovely Electromagnetia can use pulses to throw enemy technology into disarray, extremely shortwave beams to imbue them with a deadly sickness, or simple high-energy emissions to attack many enemies at once!
Strong Nucleo - With his mysterious Gluon Gun, Nucleo can bind enemies together, even causing them to lose mass! If he reverses the gun's polarity, watch out! He might just unbind his enemies' nuclei!
Little Nukey - Strong Nucleo's little brother can drive his enemies to illness and even decomposition with his special power, Beta Decay!
Fighting for the well-being of our physical universe, our heroes must every day battle the scum and villainy of space-time such as their arch-rival, Maxwell's Demon. But their individual powers alone are not always enough to defeat their enemies. Strong Nucleo, his wife Electromagnetia, and their pal Little Nukey can fuse together to form the powerful Grand Unification! This, of course, takes very high energies, so they need the help of their human allies. At the peak of their strength, all four fighters can combine into the Unified Field Fighting Force, an unstoppable beacon of fighting!
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