Slice of Pie

Slice of Pie Graph

Poking around on YouTube this morning and I noticed a video about taking progressively larger slices of pie and the question was which slice would be the largest? You start by taking a slice that is one percent of the whole pie, and then you take two percent of the remaining pie, and then three percent of what's left all the way up to one hundred. I couldn't come up with an equation that I could graph on Desmos, so off to the spreadsheet I go. Only had to make three little equations and then copy and paste to fill the rest of the sheet.

The size of the slice (the yellow line) goes up until you get to 10%. That's when you get the largest piece of pie. After that each slice gets progressively smaller. By the time you have reached the 35th slice, all that's left is 1/1000th of the whole pie.

Never did watch the video. Went back and looked for it but could not find it. Funny how I was able to get the whole problem from a one line blurb, but it took me a paragraph to explain it.

High Five Wire Puzzle

Without magnets and glue, how can they be combined?
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I've seen bunches of puzzle videos, but this is the first one that really grabbed me. Grabbed me so much I went looking for it. Constantin makes it, and Knobelbox is the only place where I found it, and they are out of stock. There is a four wire version as well.

The Imperial, Part 2

Stonework above the entrance to the old Imperial Hotel - 1894

I was at Java Man Coffee in downtown Portland last Thursday, sitting there, drinking my coffee and I notice this old stone archway across the street. I'm looking at this thing and I am wondering what I am seeing? Is that just rough cut stone, or random swirly stuff? I think it's carvings of plants. Awfully darn intricate. Makes me wonder if it wasn't originally painted.

On a previous visit to this place we were around the corner and I never saw this entrance.

Italian Harrier

Italian Two Seat Harrier Trainer

Operating out of an Air Force Base near Milan, Italy.

Wikipedia knows the difference between the various types of Harriers.

The Double (Chinese) - Netflix

The Double - Official Teaser Trailer | Wu Jinyan/Wang Xingyue | YOUKU
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We've got a couple of women who have been victimized by powerful scumbags operating within the Emperor's circle, so everything is political and every word is analyzed for hidden meanings and potential traps. One of the women dies and the other decides to take her place. Since the dead woman has been gone from the capital for ten years and she left when she was a kid, no one really knows what she looks like, so with excellent coaching from her maid, the double is able to pass herself off as the absent woman. Our girl was supposedly murdered by her husband who was being threatened with the lives of the rest of his family. We've got a real snake's nest here, but our girl has had her eyes opened and she is pretty sharp, so you know revenge is coming.

The acting is a little crude, but I suppose when your audience is peasants you want to make things obvious, and that they do. Of course, since we are in the very uppermost level of society, there are fabulous clothes and ridiculous rules governing behavior down to how you say good morning. Very much like an English drawing room, but in Mandarin.

HE-1 WWII Navy Ambulance Plane

HE-1 WWII Navy Ambulance Plane

WAAAM has a page about this airplane, though it doen's contain much information.

Gangs of Galicia - Netflix

Gangs of Galicia - Official Trailer [English] | Netflix
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More Spanish drug smuggling, this time in the town of Cambados in Galicia which is in northwest Spain. Sexual attraction gets people all crossed up. When a woman lawyer's father is assassinated she starts looking into his past and discovers that he was in the witness protection program for her entire life. She also discovers that he had another family in Cambados that he abandoned. Not being able to leave this alone she goes to Galicia and starts poking around and soon finds herself doing lawyer stuff for the Padins, the local drug smugglers.

Then we have the jackass of a cop who is willing to bend the rules as long as he can bring the Padin family to justice. The Padins are not nice people, but at least you know where you stand with them. This cop threatens people and lies to them in order to get what he wants. He is the villain in this show.

Cambados, Galicia, Spain
Northwestern Spain

The drug smugglers use a combination of fishing boats and go-fast boats to ferry bundles of cocaine from freighters sitting far off shore to the beach where they hustle the bundles into waiting vans. The fishing boats are pretty safe, I mean they are out there putt-putting around on the ocean which is what fishing boats do so they are not going to attract much attention. They bring the bales from the far offshore freighters to closer in shore where the bundles are transferred to the go-fast boats.  The go-fast boats are the weak link. There are not many of them so if they get spotted by the cops, the cops are going to be after them, and the cops have some really big go-fast boats of their own. Kind of scary actually.

Mussel farms in the Vigo estuary. Rias Baixas, Galicia, Spain

There are several scenes where we see the go-fast boats racing around these floating platforms. No explanation in the show. Seems they are mussel farms.