That’s the name of Microsoft’s information session when they come up to campus next week.
What’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Team Fortress 2 Meet the ??? video trailers. If you somehow have no idea what I’m talking about, you can watch all 6 currently released ones below.
Now if the Microsoft session would be something like that.. that would be pretty sweet.
While in class today, my prof mentioned hyperplanes. Not really remembering what those things were and having Internet available, I made use of Wikipedia and looked up hyperplanes.
After running through the page somewhat, something caught my eye in the “See also” section: a link to an article named the ham sandwich theorem.
“Surely this must be a prank.”, I said. It turns out I was mistakened and the ham sandwich theorem, also known as the Stone-Tukey theorem, is a legitimate theorem that talks about dividing n objects in n-dimensional space in half with a (n-1)-dimensional hyperplane. The ham sandwich theorem is for the specific case where n = 3. If n = 2, it would be known as the pancake theorem.
Where do these people come up with these names? Mathematicians must have been quite hungry back then or something, akin to the modern poor starving student.
Got kind of bored, so I created a Facebook account. I don’t plan to use it frequently like some of those crazy people out there who manage to get addicted to it and the information about people it provides. Still tweaking around the privacy settings and all.
So anyway, go add and don’t send me useless application invitations.
So it’s April Fools today. Here’s some of the pranks I’ve seen throughout the course of the day (note: post will be updated as more stuff gets seen):
Inverted Chairs
Everyone knows that the Computing Science Common Room is one of the best places to hang around thanks to the comfy couches. I walk in today after getting my morning coffee at Renaissance to see that our beloved couches were inverted so you cannot sit on them.
Rickroll’d
People entering SFU through B-Lot today found themselves rickroll’d. The guy with the TV set disappeared after an hour or so – maybe he’s going around campus or something.
On the Internet
If you have 20 minutes and 40 seconds of time, please take a look at The Story of Stuff.
I will not going into it in much detail because I do not want to accidentally ruin the message, which I believe is very true and something I absolutely believe in, even before watching the video.
Yes, the medium might not exactly be what a traditional rick roll would be on, but I think this still counts.
Usually in the car, my dad would have control over the radio and I just follow suit because I do not really care all too much, but today as I got in the car sometime in the late afternoon, my dad starts up the car and it was playing AM 1470, a Chinese radio station and they had this radio ad on their 70s/80s music program, with various songs playing and lo and behold, they closed it with Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up and started talking about the program (and you can still hear the song in the background).
Well played AM 1470. Well played.
Oh by the way, check out this new thing I found out.
Dominic Lau is currently a 4th year Computing Science major studying at Simon Fraser University. He goes online by the alias Overdrive.
More to come soon.
I would like to wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas.
Hopefully, it would be a white Christmas instead of the grey, wet Christmas we are most likely to get in Vancouver.
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