playtime iv: the winners
There are three winners this time. And none is marybishop!
Here is the answer:
Car: new, maroon Corvette with a few tricked-out aftermarket additions.
Driver: male, white, 50ish, a little plump.
Hat: A black Callaway Big Bertha cap.
here are the guesses:
Car: convertible Miata or Sebring; Lincoln Towncar; convertible Audi or Saab; 7 Series Black BMW, convertible Mustang, Hummer, slightly beat up red Camaro, stretch limo.
Winner, car section: Miss Kate (only muscle car of the group)
Driver: retiree; chauffeur; blonde female; 30's male; 28 yr old white male; late 20's-early 30's male; 17 yr old male; 50ish male.
Winner, driver section: nils (marybishop had this one till nils came in with a last minute entry)
Hat: jaunty little cap; chauffeur's cap (implied); Britney Spears-ish Kangol; beret; black baseball cap; old looking, but not actually old, frayed black baseball cap, chauffeur's cap (implied).
Winner, hat section: paintergirl (right color, right shape)
Congrats to all of our winners!
WAIT! LATE BREAKING NEWS!!
Capt Underpants wins latest guess. I encourage you to check it out as it is as descriptive and entertaining as usual.
ps Sylow wins nothing. NOTHING!
OK. He wins the Honorary Award For Achieving High Standards in Honorariness.
Here is the answer:
Car: new, maroon Corvette with a few tricked-out aftermarket additions.
Driver: male, white, 50ish, a little plump.
Hat: A black Callaway Big Bertha cap.
here are the guesses:
Car: convertible Miata or Sebring; Lincoln Towncar; convertible Audi or Saab; 7 Series Black BMW, convertible Mustang, Hummer, slightly beat up red Camaro, stretch limo.
Winner, car section: Miss Kate (only muscle car of the group)
Driver: retiree; chauffeur; blonde female; 30's male; 28 yr old white male; late 20's-early 30's male; 17 yr old male; 50ish male.
Winner, driver section: nils (marybishop had this one till nils came in with a last minute entry)
Hat: jaunty little cap; chauffeur's cap (implied); Britney Spears-ish Kangol; beret; black baseball cap; old looking, but not actually old, frayed black baseball cap, chauffeur's cap (implied).
Winner, hat section: paintergirl (right color, right shape)
Congrats to all of our winners!
WAIT! LATE BREAKING NEWS!!
Capt Underpants wins latest guess. I encourage you to check it out as it is as descriptive and entertaining as usual.
ps Sylow wins nothing. NOTHING!
OK. He wins the Honorary Award For Achieving High Standards in Honorariness.
posted by sparklestone at 2:12 PM
29 Comments:
That's right Sparky, you milk those 'Honorary winner' jokes for all they're worth.
I've been getting 'participant' ribbons my entire life. You would be amazed by the amount of sympathy sex I didn't get because of it.
I knew procrastination would come in handy some day!
Sylow, I am weepy over here. Come on over with your sob story and maybe I'll "pin a ribbon on you."
Capt, I am guessing you discovered that procrastination comes in handy long ago.
p.s. On a side note. Some of you may remember the days when Sylow and I used to hang out a lot together and people always got us confused.
Recently, a fellow blogger responded to a comment of mine and called me Sylow.
It's kind of comforting to know we are cyberally confused as well.
I saw that. I think MB is just confused by the 'S' names. Maybe you should change your name to Blarneystone or Brokenstone or something like that.
Oh shit, was it me who did that? Sorry Sparky!
Well I hope you are all happy that I didn't win any damn category...
Congratulations to all the winners!
Thanks again Sylow for offering us such a fun game..I mean Sparky ;-)
Dang! I can't believe I actually won a part of this game! I usually don't play games w/ S-stone b/c I usually don't win -- except at Scrabble. I usually beat the pants off that boy at Scrabble.
When's the next game?
After reading the Capt.'s entry, I'm guessing the Capt. was describing a car from his own past. Such detail! Such eloquence! Such poetry! He wasn't making that up.
Scrabble...pants...hoo! Oh that's rich! Whew! Lady, you gotta warn me before you bust out a funny one like that!
Time and place, lady! They don't call me Mr. Perspicacity for nuthin' ya know?
Sylow, I am not changing my secret identity. I will, however, start referring to you as Cauchy.
mb, better luck next time. Don't sweat callin' me sylow. Just don't call me Cauchy!
Since when is a camaro not a muscle car? And why does J not win an award for the person most forced into participating?
Sorry redballoon. Camaro is def a muscle car (I spent good part of teen years in a '69 Camaro) but this Corvette was pristine and your 'little beat up' description was what took you out of the running.
J was considered for that award but that fact that he didn't participate took him out of the running.
The fact is that I despise the existence of that license plate and J is prob the person in the world who most knows how I feel about the Callaway Big Bertha. I tried to do the long-distance mind meld thing with him and was counting on him to nail this one.
I will award him the Least Receptive To My Attempts At A Long-Distance Mind Meld Award.
Unfortunately, Cauchy (ko-shy) did work in analysis type stuff which boggles my mind. Especially the Cauchy-Schwartz stuff.
I've been Sylow_p far longer than you've been sparklestone. Bugger-off.
Since Sylow was an algebraist, I suppose Nicolas Bourbaki would be a possibility. He was a famed algebraist, and a well known alcoholic who was married and divorced eight times.
However, since Bourbaki is already a pen name (he doesn't actually exist) it might be even more pretentious for me to take on his persona. Besides I didn't understand all of Bourbaki's stuff anyhow.
Sylow_p subgroups, I understood.
Okay, lets give him some room people - nothing to see, nothing to see...we got a major geek coming through people, just back away slowly...
Okay - If is the highest power of a prime p dividing the order of a finite group G, then a subgroup of G of order is called a Sylow p-subgroup of G.
And you understood this???
I think your cut and past dropped the variables:
If p^k is the highest power of a prime p dividing the order of a finite group G, then a subgroup of G of order p^k is called a Sylow p-subgroup of G.
Beauty, eh?
OK. I have pretty much a free range policy for my comments. I haven't deleted anyone's foul language or anything...
...but the geek level is gettin' pretty high here and you're pushin' me!
Sylow_P said...
Okay, quick 3 line statement followed by simple explanation.
Let p be a prime number, G a finite group.
1. If p divides the order of G , then G has a Sylow p-subgroup.
2. In a finite group, all the Sylow p-subgroups are conjugate for some fixed p.
3. The number of Sylow p-subgroups for a fixed p is congruent to 1 (mod p).
Quick Lay-explanation.
Using modular aritmetic consider the group n mod 6.
ie G is the finite set {0,1,2,3,4,5} with cyclic additive properties mod 6.
eg
5+1=6 mod 6=6-1(6)=0
4+4=8 mod 6=8-1(6)=2
4+5=9 mod 6=9-1(6)=3
5+2=7 mod 6=7-1(6)=1
The order of G [the number of things in G] is equal to 6. 6 is divisible by 2 and 3 (2*3=6).
So there are two Sylow-p subgroups. One of order 2 and one of order 3.
g={0,3} and h={0,2,4}
in g we have
0+0=0
0+3=3
3+3=6 mod 6=6-1(6)=0
addition table for h is left as an excercise.
In George Orwell's 1984 when Winston Smith writes 5+5=0, he isn't necessarily wrong...
wow.
I don't even know what to say.
Capt, it is often difficult to know what to say to the man.
You could pretend you were on a first date with him, "Uh...yeah. I, um...I gotta go!"
He must be used to that
Speaking of first dates, Sparky...I have a little tale. Sylow asked me to fix him up with one of my suitors whom we affectionately call 'Dr. Math' (who is doing post-doc research in Mathematics), but he would have none of it. Sylow was too geeky even for someone called Dr. Math...... I don't mind hanging out w/ Sylow, though. As long as we go places like Denny's or the Olive Garden...None of the cool kids will spot us there.
Um..yea..I'm going to go stand over here now.
Wow-I cannot believe I won the hat section. I have one for you Sparkle-
B Sting and a hat was involved as well.
I like the idea of starting off every conversation with what you would say to Sylow on a first date.
In truth, he isn't so geeky 24/7. It builds up for a while and then he just can't contain it anymore. I can picture him at his desk typing out that weird ass shit and just bouncing gleefully in his chair. He should be fine now for a little while
PG, I am gonna say newish yellow VW Bug with a 40something female in a straw sunhat.
Yellow convertible Miata with a 50ish man wearing an australian bush hat. I'm guessing he is an art dealer in town to check out some local competition. Oh wait he did have on one of those safari jounalists vests. Weekend photographer!
Crackhead, what the fuck are you talking about?
You said you were dating a math dork. I asked if you wanted any math lingo to impress him with, and you said you had already 'impressed' him more than enough.
End of story.
Geez, you try to be nice to some people.
Awwwww Sylow....You know you're jelly about the British math hottie. Commandment #11 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's math geek' That's right...get your own!
FNATC,
Your math dork lacks the plumbing I adore. Why would I covet a math geek when I am one?
Besides, only sparklestone can call my orientation into question. SB & Miss Kate already know we have a special relationship.
Love is blind, Sylow, and you love math...
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