Junk Food, Zombies, and Math

I came across two very amazing things yesterday, the first, Tacos at Midnight Doritos.  I’m usually not one for snack/junk food, but I was in the mood for something, and tacos are the most amazing invention ever…so I bought the chips.  And let me tell you, they are amazing.  You can taste every single ingredient of said tacos and not in a flavor mash, the only thing missing is sour cream.  I highly recommend those chips to anyone with a serious love of taco.

The other item, Plants Versus Zombies.  It’s a Pop Cap game a friend downloaded and got a crack for.  Basically you’re defending your house against zombie hordes and you do so by planting various plants that do different things.  You can at first select up to six different plants to take with you on each mission but eventually you can take up to nine.  Each plant has a cooldown so you can’t just plop them down one right after another and a "Sunlight" cost.  "Sunlight" is the resource of the game and is generated via one of three different types of plants and is also dropped randomly durning the daylight missions.  Other plants include various "Pea Shooters" that shot at zombies, spore shooters, chompers (they eat a zombie in one whack, but they have to chew it and swallow it  before eating another one and in that time are vunerable to attack), Wall Nuts and Tall Nuts (which are basically big rocks that slow down the zombies because they have to destroy the nuts to continue pushing forward) there are also "landmines" and bombs, etc.  There are also dozens of types of zombies with their unique strengths and weaknesses, methods of defeat, and ways to counter each of your defenses.

There are five "worlds" with ten levels per "world" each adding new strategies to it.  The first is daylight, then nighttime, then daylight with a pool, then nighttime with a pool (aquatic zombies and aquatic plants) and fog, and then rooftops.

So much fun.

I watch Feast, Feast 2, and Feast 3.  Enjoyable for the type of gorefest films they were.  Very reminiscint of the old Grindhouse or Troma films of yore.

The other night a friend and I were talking about squares and circles and I said that they were basically the same thing.  He argued with me, then I proved mathematically that a square and a cricle are aproximations of each other because (pi(s/2)^2+pi((2^(1/2)/2)(s/2))/2≈s^2 and it’s only off by I think 17.7% or so, so it’s a rough aproximation, but an aproximation none the less.  I love math.  Though it’s really kind of depressing to stop and think about it, how many years I’ve been out of college and how little I use what I studied in college in my life and how fast it goes.

Anyway…time for another boring day where I don’t have work.  Maybe I can trick someone into doing something.

–RK