LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kona2]

Richard Adams retired here to the Isle of Man, when I moved here 40 years ago he was a neighbour (but his house was much, much bigger!)

Now THAT is a cool connection.

[Kona2]

Day 1 of 7....Halloween is coming...and Zombies might be closer than they appear...


Thank you Bizarro....just what we needed for a start to the Skeleton Crew Challenge!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.8 MM David A
1.5 MM Tombeur
450 K Ken G

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging and bike-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Doug 1,767 m
Steve W 2,000 m
Jeff M 2,032 m
Howard 3,002 m
AJ 5,038 m
Kevin 5,061 m
Dana 5,322 m
Rick 6,306 m
Dan O' 6,531 m
Tom 7,000 m
ATX33 7,024 m
Jane 7,117 m ...lucky 7's bookend this palindrome!
Ron 7,777 m ...another lucky 7 palindrome!
Tim 7,908 m
Patrick S 8.728 m
bg 8,805 m
FRiC 8,890 m
Louis 9,000 m
David T 9,500 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Mikkel 10,000 m
Anton 10,101 m ...a one aught one palindrome...because one ought!
David A 11,268 m
Minnie 14,571 m
Keith 20,000 m
Derric 21,097 m ...he moons us!
Lee 21,721 m...almost a palindrome...and certainly a half moon!
Tombeur 23,170 m ..he moons us!
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome and he moons us!
Ken 50,000 m ... mega

[Citroen]

Richard Adams retired here to the Isle of Man, when I moved here 40 years ago he was a neighbour (but his house was much, much bigger!)

Now THAT is a cool connection.

My cycling club's annual hill climb (time trial) goes up Watership Down. It's a half mile in three and a half minutes of absolute pain. Going down Watership Down to the start is way easier.

[Player One]

Hi
I'm just wondering if the Lee on the daily totals is me or not. I only ask because I did not do 21k I did do 15500m. I just don't want to steal anyone else thunder I know how hard doing 21k is.

[Kona2]

Hi
I'm just wondering if the Lee on the daily totals is me or not. I only ask because I did not do 21k I did do 15500m. I just don't want to steal anyone else thunder I know how hard doing 21k is.

Yes - that's you! I suspect it was a two day total then ! And 15,500 m is not just spare change....good work!

[Kona2]

Richard Adams retired here to the Isle of Man, when I moved here 40 years ago he was a neighbour (but his house was much, much bigger!)

Now THAT is a cool connection.

My cycling club's annual hill climb (time trial) goes up Watership Down. It's a half mile in three and a half minutes of absolute pain. Going down Watership Down to the start is way easier.

Sounds brutal - but climbing has never been my favorite (not even if there is a sweet downhill). Road or off road?

[Kona2]

Day Two of the Skeleton Crew.....


Snort. Thanks to Speed Bump and Dave Coverly....watch out for candy houses in the Skeleton Challenge....

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.05 MM Ed
1.5 MM Minnie
600 K Tim
500 K AJ ...a cool half million!
350 K Patrick S
300 K Ted
300 K Dana

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Jeff M 3,009 m
Dana 4,040 m ...a double double!
FRiC 4,212 m
Gines 4,975 m
Jeff G 5,006 m
Bernie 5,038 m
AJ 5,043 m
Steve G 5,174 m
Tom 6,000 m
Rick 6,194 m
Rich McC 6,915 m
Tim 7,705 m
Ron 7,557 m ...a palindrome bookended by lucky 7's and high fives in the middle!
Gary 8,819 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Kevin 10,000 m
Louis 10,000 m
Minnie 12,390 m
Ted 13,000 m
Jonathan 17,009 m
Bill L 28,899 m ...he moons us, too!
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome with a built in half moon...

[just27]

Richard Adams retired here to the Isle of Man, when I moved here 40 years ago he was a neighbour (but his house was much, much bigger!)

Now THAT is a cool connection.

It's been y-e-a-r-s since I read Watership Down ... kind of Hunger Games for bunnies, as I vaguely recall. Just added it to my library hold list ... I'll also check out the BBC version on Netflix and see if the PGBs might enjoy the animated story, but, it's probably too scary for 3-7 year-olds. Ah, the trails that our fearless Astrogator sends us down!

[Kona2]

Day 3 of 7...

Minnie, aka Just27, will tell you that the number is central in her world. The calendar will tell you that there are just days to go before the "gasp" 2018 Holiday Challenge begins....so get your seasonal things in the queue...you're going to be b.u.s.y.!!!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.6 MM Dan O'
1.2 MM Derric
m ...David T....what a palindrome!
900 K danwho
200 K Howard
150 K Anton

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
David T 3,999 m
William H 5,000 m
Melissa 6,000 m
Howard 7,013 m
Ron 7,887 m ...a palindrome bookended by lucky 7s with some special 8's in the middle!
David W 8,000 m
Robert H 8,000 m
Patrick S 8,090 m
ATX33 8,341 m
Doug 9,433 m
Derric 10,000 m
Gary 10,000 m
Ian 10,000 m
Ed 10,001 m ...a palindrome !
bg 10,149 m
Anton 11,011 m ...a double aught double palindrome!
Dana 11,426 m
Tombeur 11,618 m
danwho 11,777 m ...whoa...a double triple...and the NBA season is just starting!
Keith 12,000 m
Dennis 13,439 m
Louis 15,000 m
David A 24,816 m ...and he moons us!
Dan O' 31,142 m ....and he moons us more !

And here's a link to Bizarro....Dan Piraro is on a Halloween roll..... http://bizarro.com/

[danwho]

Must be the Season of the Witch ... of Agnesi.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQk36RQbe ... autoplay=1

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WitchofAgnesi.html

[Kona2]

Must be the Season of the Witch ... of Agnesi.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQk36RQbe ... autoplay=1

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WitchofAgnesi.html

Must admit that when I first saw the equations and the total "mathness" of the posting....it almost caused a Halloween shriek of "oh noooooo! Real math!" Stay with me here - it's almost like the glazed eyes I get when entering the tool-filled aisles of hardware stores, but you might make it through.

Another episode...bunny trails of the mind...

Watching the animation that shows the construction of the curve makes the Witch of Agnesi so much easier to understand (as much as algebra and calculus are to me)...and yet there is something so very Alice in Wonderland falling through the rabbit hole about it, too. What probably started as a Halloween and math search by danwho led first to one site and then another...and there I was, down the bunny trail left by Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) - an Italian woman considered to be the first woman in the western world to have achieved a reputation in mathematics according to Wiki.

Maria Gaetana was a child prodigy - and it wasn't just math. Creepily, she was given the nickname of the Seven-Tongued Orator because she spoke Italian and French by age 5, and then added Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German and Latin by age 11. At 9, she gave an hour long speech in Latin on women's right to be educated. Her father was a mathematics professor, and one guesses that this provided many opportunities for learning within the academic community.

But there were some Twilight Zone aspects to the way she solved her math problems. As the story goes, she would work on solutions to problems for hours - then go to bed. When she woke up, the problems often had the solution written. Apparently, Maria would sleepwalk and go work through the answers. I often wished for such events in my homework days...and in yet ANOTHER tangent..."how do you solve a problem like Maria?!"

Somewhere in all the mathematics and language learning, Maria was also given the responsibility for educating her siblings - no easy task as she was one of 21 children. This kept her from her own goal of entering a convent as one had to have familial permission to do so. And so it was that she "retired" from active mathematics circles at an early age, and turned to other pursuits.

For us, as Lunies, she does have some significance in astronomy, too. There is an asteroid named after her: 16765 Agnesi AND a crater on Venus.

[Kona2]

Lunies on the Skeleton Crew Honor Board so far!!!

Crew members:

David A
Ed
Dennis
Anton
bg
Keith
Dan O'
Tombeur

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.1 MM Keith
1.05 MM bg
800 K Ron

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome from the man who first introduced us to them!
Patrick S 1,453 m
Patrick H 5,000 m
Player One 5,000 m
Robert H 5,000 m
Gary 5,007 m
Bernie 5,021 m
Steve W 5,838 m
Tom M 7,404 m
Ron 7,997 m ...a palindrome bookended by lucky 7s!
Howard 8,021 m
Ian 8,250 m
Dana 8,836 m
Derric 10,000 m ... probably felt like a row in the park after all those half moons!
Stuart 10,000 m
Anton 10,001 m ...a palindrome of one aughts!
Dan O' 10,011 m
Keith 11,000 m
Tombeur 11,122 m ...a triple double!
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
bg 15,342 m
Remon 16,274 m
David A 18,508 m

[bg]

Must be the Season of the Witch ... of Agnesi.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQk36RQbe ... autoplay=1

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WitchofAgnesi.html

Must admit that when I first saw the equations and the total "mathness" of the posting....it almost caused a Halloween shriek of "oh noooooo! Real math!" Stay with me here - it's almost like the glazed eyes I get when entering the tool-filled aisles of hardware stores, but you might make it through.

Another episode...bunny trails of the mind...

Watching the animation that shows the construction of the curve makes the Witch of Agnesi so much easier to understand (as much as algebra and calculus are to me)...and yet there is something so very Alice in Wonderland falling through the rabbit hole about it, too. What probably started as a Halloween and math search by danwho led first to one site and then another...and there I was, down the bunny trail left by Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) - an Italian woman considered to be the first woman in the western world to have achieved a reputation in mathematics according to Wiki.

Maria Gaetana was a child prodigy - and it wasn't just math. Creepily, she was given the nickname of the Seven-Tongued Orator because she spoke Italian and French by age 5, and then added Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German and Latin by age 11. At 9, she gave an hour long speech in Latin on women's right to be educated. Her father was a mathematics professor, and one guesses that this provided many opportunities for learning within the academic community.

But there were some Twilight Zone aspects to the way she solved her math problems. As the story goes, she would work on solutions to problems for hours - then go to bed. When she woke up, the problems often had the solution written. Apparently, Maria would sleepwalk and go work through the answers. I often wished for such events in my homework days...and in yet ANOTHER tangent..."how do you solve a problem like Maria?!"

Somewhere in all the mathematics and language learning, Maria was also given the responsibility for educating her siblings - no easy task as she was one of 21 children. This kept her from her own goal of entering a convent as one had to have familial permission to do so. And so it was that she "retired" from active mathematics circles at an early age, and turned to other pursuits.

For us, as Lunies, she does have some significance in astronomy, too. There is an asteroid named after her: 16765 Agnesi AND a crater on Venus.

love the sound of music reference :]

[Tombeur]

Must be the Season of the Witch ... of Agnesi.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQk36RQbe ... autoplay=1

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WitchofAgnesi.html

Must admit that when I first saw the equations and the total "mathness" of the posting....it almost caused a Halloween shriek of "oh noooooo! Real math!" Stay with me here - it's almost like the glazed eyes I get when entering the tool-filled aisles of hardware stores, but you might make it through.

Another episode...bunny trails of the mind...

Query, a sine wave? So says Son No. 1 whom I am visiting in Madison, Wis this weekend. Tom

Watching the animation that shows the construction of the curve makes the Witch of Agnesi so much easier to understand (as much as algebra and calculus are to me)...and yet there is something so very Alice in Wonderland falling through the rabbit hole about it, too. What probably started as a Halloween and math search by danwho led first to one site and then another...and there I was, down the bunny trail left by Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) - an Italian woman considered to be the first woman in the western world to have achieved a reputation in mathematics according to Wiki.

Maria Gaetana was a child prodigy - and it wasn't just math. Creepily, she was given the nickname of the Seven-Tongued Orator because she spoke Italian and French by age 5, and then added Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German and Latin by age 11. At 9, she gave an hour long speech in Latin on women's right to be educated. Her father was a mathematics professor, and one guesses that this provided many opportunities for learning within the academic community.

But there were some Twilight Zone aspects to the way she solved her math problems. As the story goes, she would work on solutions to problems for hours - then go to bed. When she woke up, the problems often had the solution written. Apparently, Maria would sleepwalk and go work through the answers. I often wished for such events in my homework days...and in yet ANOTHER tangent..."how do you solve a problem like Maria?!"

Somewhere in all the mathematics and language learning, Maria was also given the responsibility for educating her siblings - no easy task as she was one of 21 children. This kept her from her own goal of entering a convent as one had to have familial permission to do so. And so it was that she "retired" from active mathematics circles at an early age, and turned to other pursuits.

For us, as Lunies, she does have some significance in astronomy, too. There is an asteroid named after her: 16765 Agnesi AND a crater on Venus.

love the sound of music reference :]

[danwho]

Query, a sine wave? So says Son No. 1 whom I am visiting in Madison, Wis this weekend. Tom

Not a sine wave, which as you see has this undulating pattern. The Witch of Agnesi curve has just the one peak and spreads out in both directions getting closer to (but not touching) the horizontal line you can imagine at its base.
However, a sine wave could also work for Halloween...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8