Daily Shoot Assignment Catch-Up

October 22, 2010, 1:48 PM PDT by Parkzer • Daily Shoot

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The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

I finally caught up on all my Daily Shoot assignments. Click on the images for more information.

I Still Remember How to Breathe

October 20, 2010, 1:46 PM PDT by Parkzer • General

You should check out this random article that I wrote for LiquidPHP:

http://liquidphp.net/content/i-still-remember-how-breathe

No, that is not at all relevant to what LiquidPHP is about, but the LiquidPHP home page wasn’t updated for almost 11 months, so I decided that today would be a good day to take action.

Leave me a comment on that page saying something random of your own.

Update: I just realized that you have to sign up for LiquidPHP’s Drupal to be able to leave comments, so I guess you don’t HAVE to leave a comment.

Second Update: I just realized that the LiquidPHP website is down, so in case that happens again but you still want to read my post, here it is:

I Still Remember How to Breathe
The LiquidPHP website has been pretty dormant for a long time (meaning, nothing new has been posted since late 2009), so I decided to finally log in to this home page management thing and actually put something up on the website.
Tip of the Day: It doesn’t matter how many alarms you set on your cell phone if it runs out of battery overnight.
Anyway, are we all ready for a calculus lesson? Let’s learn about triple integrals and their relationship with integrals of other orders. We all obviously know that a standard integral finds the two-dimensional area under a particular curve. Bringing that up an order, a double integral finds the three-dimensional volume under a particular plane. So a triple integral must find something four-dimensional under a particular volume.
If you don’t know already, the fourth dimension is time. Obviously, we cannot represent time itself on a (theoretically and conventionally) two-dimensional piece of paper, similar to how we cannot represent depth (the third dimension) on a sheet of paper. However, we found an easy work-around to this – draw a graph on a sheet of paper in a way that we can mentally visualize the third dimension, namely, drawing a third axis and pretending it goes into and pops out of the paper.
So to represent the fourth dimension, or time, on a sheet of paper, we would have to draw multiple versions of the same graph as it changes over time. Simply put, if our time range was ten seconds and we wanted to represent a function of three variables in units of seconds, we would have to draw ten separate three-dimensional graphs, each of them depicting what the function looks like at each interval of one second.
Now that we can depict the actual graphs of the functions, we have a general idea of how we can solve them. All integrals come with two bounds, and these two bounds are necessary for finding out what two volumes we need to draw. Once we have these two volumes based on the bounds, we need to find the time it took for the volume to change from the lower bound to the upper bound based on the constraint of the function that relates area, volume, and time.
Of course, not everyone living in the third dimension (which, I’m assuming, is everyone that’s reading this) can necessarily picture that well enough to get an idea of how to find the integral, so we have a method of solving triple integrals into iterated integrals which represent each variable independently.
Consult your local calculus professor if you have any questions, and thanks for attending lecture today.
—
Adam Parkzer

In other news, I plan on spending eight hours tonight from 6 PM to 2 AM catching up on homework that I’ve been procrastinating on for the past week, so I will most likely be unavailable between those hours.

And finally, this is a new must-see music video by Bo Burnham for his comedy song Oh Bo. Lauren Francesca is in it, if you need another reason to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcLFmN7aJe0

That’s all, bye humans.

I said yesterday that I took three hours’ worth of exams. I took a calculus exam for 1.5 hours, then 15 minutes after, took a computer science exam.

The calculus one was ridiculously difficult, not because I didn’t recognize the material, but because they were worded so trickily and I kept making basic arithmetic errors that I kept discovering five minutes after making them (like seeing 4 and 2 and thinking they add up to 5).

The computer science one wasn’t exactly hard, and I always do well on everything related to computer science, but for some reason, I have a feeling that I made pathetically basic mistakes similar to the ones I made in the calculus exam. I finished the 1.5-hour exam in about an hour, and while I was leaving the testing site, everyone gave me odd looks because I finished so quickly.

Also, this is sort of random, but a local newspaper company that I work for is having issues with its YouTube account (which I currently manage), and even though I posted on the support forum five days ago asking for help, all the Google employees appear to be blatantly ignoring me. This is starting to annoy me, so if you have some spare time, please take a look at my thread and reply to it so it keeps bumping it to the top and increasing the number of replies, hopefully making it more noticeable. I have established that assistance from an employee is necessary to find a solution to my problem, but if you want to pretend like you’re helping me solve the problem, then that’s fine too.

http://google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4a954186c22f729b

And finally, if you have a Twitter account, you should retweet this tweet:

http://twitter.com/adamparkzer/status/27516570690

What I’m Watching

Believe it or not, last week, I watched Fred: The Movie.

I know that I freely admit the fact that Fred is my least favorite YouTube star, but I heard that John Cena was in the Fred movie so I decided that it was worth watching. Fortunately, Fred is significantly older in the movie than he is in his YouTube series, so his voice is lower and is less annoying. The main idea of the movie is that Fred’s crush, Judy, used to live a few homes away, but ends up moving to a completely different place farther away. Fred is now on a mission to find Judy and “save” her, and goes through many obstacles to find her new house.

I’m having difficulty making a fair judgment of the movie because it’s so oriented towards children. I only thought it was slightly funny because of how stupid most of it was. John Cena doesn’t really have that significant of a role in the movie; he plays Fred’s dad, and only appears shortly to give Fred some advice, and later in Fred’s dream.

If you watch the Fred YouTube series, I would probably recommend this movie (assuming that you only watch Fred because you like him or his show). If you’re looking for an actual conventional movie to watch, Fred: The Movie is not something you would want to watch. However, if you have a large online presence, watching Fred: The Movie might be important as it may become common knowledge among online communities, and be a milestone for YouTubers as this is the first movie starring someone that became famous solely through YouTube.

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

Gonna go wash the dishes

October 8, 2010, 9:02 PM PDT by Parkzer • Daily Shoot, What I'm Watching

I did some editing to my website today to make my pages more search-engine friendly, and to hopefully make the crawlers identify keywords more easily. If the heading of my blog (the part that says “Parkzer’s Blog” and the date) is huge, do a hard refresh to reload the CSS file and turn it back into its original size.

Quote of the Day

(7:43:21 PM) adamparkzer: gonna go wash the dishes, brb
(7:43:42 PM) adamparkzer: wait
(7:43:46 PM) adamparkzer: actually, I’m going to eat dinner first
(7:43:53 PM) adamparkzer: wait
(7:43:56 PM) adamparkzer: I have nowhere to eat my dinner
(7:44:03 PM) adamparkzer: gonna go wash the dishes, brb

What I’m Watching

I haven’t watched a movie for a long time since the end of the period of my excessive movie-watching over the summer (except for one during the first week of college), but I finally managed to find some time to watch another movie. After liking Forgetting Sarah Marshall over the summer, I watched Get Him to the Greek this past weekend, a movie featuring some of the same actors and actresses as Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Get Him to the Greek sees the return of Aldous Snow, the man that played Sarah Marshall’s new boyfriend in the previous movie. Recently, he released a new song called “African Child,” but he seems to be the only person that’s liking the song, and the rest of the world thinks it’s a disaster. Fortunately, Aaron Green, a young man working for a music company, remembers what the great Aldous Snow from in the past was like, and wishes to revive it in the present. Following a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he goes to London to escort Aldous Snow to the United States so he can perform.

Of course, there has to be an absurd problem in the storyline – Aldous Snow is obsessed with drugs, and cannot live a moment without being under the influence. This poses a great problem to Aaron, as Snow’s addiction to drugs and other distractions are putting his opportunity in danger and possibly preventing him from giving the Americans a show of their lives.

I thought this movie was hilarious. It kept me laughing throughout the entire movie, both as a result of funny dialogue and a funny plot. The actors and actresses fit well with each other, and their combined personalities make the overall movie a great comedy and a great adventure.

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September 22, 2010, 8:51 PM PDT by Parkzer • Daily Shoot

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September 11, 2010, 8:49 PM PDT by Parkzer • Daily Shoot

There was a football game today at my university. The problem is that the football field is next door to my apartment.

Most people would think that’s a good thing, because I don’t have to walk a long time to watch football games, but that isn’t the case if you stay up extremely late the previous night and sleep in until about 10 AM.

Or at least, try to sleep in until people start walking in massive mobs towards the football stadium and start blasting loud music.

That’s when you start to realize how your windows need to be more soundproof.

I took this picture after the football game was over and people started leaving the stadium.

This isn’t a very good picture, seeing as it doesn’t show the massive volume of people that was at the stadium, and doesn’t even show the stadium itself.

But it was the best I could do in the state of sleeplessness I was in.

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

Plastic or glass, make a photo of a bottle or grouping of bottles today and post it.