3 February 2013

Pick Up: Pulling the guys

Script:

Panel 1:

Ryan:ooh

Panel 2:

Ryan:hmm <eyes closed, head tilted to one side>

Panel 3:

Ryan:and then... <smooch face>
Michael:What in all-the-numbers-that-have-2-in-it are you doing?

Panel 4:

Ryan:playing a scenario where I team up and apply the Nash equilibrium.
Michael:you want to "score" the blonde girl from the film "A beautiful mind"

Panel 5:

Ryan:<sigh>No, the other girls.
Michael:okay good, what am i here for then?

Panel 6:

Ryan: To help me pull guys to help pull girls

Panel 7:

blank look

Panel 8:

side on, Michael is serious.
Michael:okay, let's do this.

the comic

The proof for all numbers contain 2 was done on numberphile youtube for the proof we just consider positive integer numbers and count the numbers that contain 2 under 10, then numbers that contain 2 under 100 and the percentage of numbers that contain 2 goes up and you can keep on doing this and there is an equation to work it out. Watch the youtube video they do it for 3 but the same rules apply.

I assume most people in the maths area have watch "A beautiful mind". If you haven't I will try not to spoil it for you. A group of women enter a bar, there is one that stands apart from the rest (the blonde) and the guys are saying "best man gets the prize" Nash then saw what the outcome would be and came up with a different method where every guy wins and the blonde lady is left alone.

A guy who is a pick up trainer suggested looking for guys to help find and pick up women. Sounds strange but watch the video.

In the comic Michael the driver is not looking on the road on panels 2, 3, 5 and 7(purely coincidental). The seat belt was added after, if your driving you should always wear a seatbelt. The position of Michaels hands on the steering wheel is at the 10 and 2 position (on a clock) always good practise. The driver is in the left which means he's driving on the left hand side of the road (like they do in Britain).

I have wrote the script for the next one already so it should be up soonish.

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21 December 2012

Pick Up: It's a golden car

Script:
PANEL 1
Ryan: So whose car are we going in?
Michael: mine
Ryan: What? I thought it would be mine because mines cool
PANEL 2
Michael: It is cool but my car has dimensions which are closer to the "Golden Ratio"
Ryan: Does this mean what I think it means?
Michael: I don't know
Ryan: It's a real lady puller
PANEL 3
Michael: Not exactly... the gears are spaced to make it more fuel efficient. It has a go fast stripe though!

The golden ratio value is irrational so to 5 decimal places it is 1.61803. A while ago someone did a experiment putting different rectangle on a sheet of paper and they asked volunteers to select the most beautiful rectangle and would you have guessed it, it was the one that had a ratio of 1:1.61803... among other reason like Fibonacci numbers this is why this number may be considered beautiful. Sorry it has been so long, had to have the script tweaked, the car is meant to be based on the old volvo cars, nice and boxy. They have hat and scarves because it's winter and cold, sorry about facial expressions. Like I said before if you are a better artist or you know someone who would do this for FUN, get in touch.

Also it's the time of year for presents (Yay!) the giving and receiving of presents. For some people just staying warm is hard enough. The reason I'm saying this is as mathematicians we don't really believe in luck we believe in chaos and probability. Some people have everything going for them then that small chance of probability hits and things gets worse. Someone's situation may be their fault but some of it could be down to the pesky "no-way-is-that-going-to-happen" probability. Maybe this Christmas think of others. Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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15 November 2012

Maths Events in the London area

A while ago I was asked to publicise maths events in the London area, that might be of interest to London based university mathematics students. I was asked on behalf of the IMA (the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.).
I am not a member of the IMA and all the views in this blog are my own and no way are representative of the IMA.
The Facebook page had been already set up so all I had to do is populate it with events. Harder than you can imagine and also I do need an audience so they can read it (current time of writing it has 190 fans) so I brought it over to twitter, since this is where I was getting any events from.
On Facebook I did run an advert campaign for 2 days trying to aim for London universities i.e.:
  • Birkbeck University
  • City University London
  • University of Greenwich
  • Imperial College London
  • Kingston University
  • Kings College London
  • London Metropolitan University
  • London School of Economics
  • The Open University???
  • Queen Mary, University of London
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
  • UCL, University College London
The main twitter accounts I got my maths event information is these: There is others so I put them in a twitter list not all talk about events, but most of the links are of some interest. If you know of any events please tweet @IMALonEvents or write on the facebook page please.
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17 October 2012

Three word guessing game

This I heard from Alistair from Out of the Norm at one of the MathJams a couple of people wondered if you could put this online, well I believe I have done it. The rules are simple, someone puts in a valid three letter word, then the other person guesses using valid three letter words. If you guess one letter or 3 letters correct you will get the result of "odd", if you get 2 letters correct the result is even, if all the letters are correct and in the right order result is "finish".

A couple of things I haven't done, CAN'T play against the computer it is a 2 player game, also can't verify if the word is a proper three letter word apart from that it's all good

Pick a three letter word
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12 October 2012

Pick Up: It's friday comic 001

Script
PANEL 1
2 seconds to 5pm

PANEL 2
5pm

PANEL 3
Ryan:It's Friday, it's the weekend

PANEL 4
Ryan:Hey Michael, are we going out tonight and you still on for being my wingman
Michael:Yep

PANEL 5
Michael:What club do you want to go to
Ryan:er

PANEL 6
Ryan:Let me find out

PANEL 7
Michael:Are you doing goal programming?
Ryan:Yeah

PANEL 8
Michael:Don't bother, I know what club your going to pick
Ryan:Oh yeah, which

PANEL 9
Michael:Club Panther, it's the only one that serves woo woo drinks
Ryan:What, it's a nice drink.

If you haven't seen "Harold and Kumar" they start with an goal and then get side tracked. That was the idea of what this is hopefully going to be.

In Panel 6 Ryan is rating amount of women in a bar. The problem is he hasn't stated if the women are single and or straight. He could have ended up in a lesbian bar. Last panel I mentioned woo woo drinks just a reference to Aled from the Chris Moyles show, it's ended after 8 years (longest running breakfast show in bbc Radio 1).

Due to amount of free time I have hopefully I'll do one at least once a month. By the way I know the drawing is rubbish, if you fancy doing the art email me(James Clare) AT.

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30 August 2012

a while ago I said I may post comics or drawings on here. Well I have done a rather hint of rudeness comic:
In case you can't tell the script is this:

GIRL: Hmm nice what aftershave is that?
GUY: It's not aftershave it's citrus shampoo
GIRL: wow wonderful
GUY: Yeah. If I get get lucky, my other regions smell real good.

Not the best script (or drawing) but I wasn't planning on being amazing, just constantly improving. That was a slightly true story. I don't wear aftershave mainly because I'm forgetful and I don't think it adds a nicer smell. Someone said I smelt nice, I knew it wasn't aftershave cause I don't wear any. It was in fact my underarm (antiperspirant deodorant) that smelt nice (the last panel I added cause I thought it was a good joke). Anyway I had an idea for a (maybe) less rude comic idea, here is the script:

GUY:The title for this book is wrong, there is not 50 shades there is infinity shades of grey, anyway what is this book about?
GIRL: A girl talking about S & M.
GUY: You mean Single Machine scheduling.
GIRL: Er...not quite.

The end goal is maybe come up with a running storyline, for the moment though I'll just have fun.

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11 August 2012

Drawing something

A while ago I was playing with a few friends an application called "Draw Something" basically the idea is you choose from a list what you want to draw, you submit it and then your friend guesses what you drew. Sounds good. Only after you play a while some of the words crop up again so the idea of playing seems pointless.

Anyway a friend of mine rarely check the application so I write to him on facebook to come on and play (most of the time using colourful language). My last attempt to persuade my friend I drew this:

Not the greatest drawing in the world, but it looks like a cowboy saying a line similar to the one in "Dirty Harry". I was thinking "Draw Something" will never ask me to draw something like this. I may put random pics I drew on here, maybe.

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