The MoT Top 10: The Seventeenth

Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Scott Walker

10)  His dad was a preacher. We all know preacher's children turn out perfect.

9) He doesn't have a Bachelor's Degree. The guy is so smart he doesn't need one...

8) He was an Eagle Scout. If the dude can scout out and recruit eagles, he definitely can find solutions to the state's problems.

7) Scott Walker hates to admit this because he doesn't want to win the election for unfair reasons, but Scott Walker is half Black.

6) Scott Walker can remember Pi to 1000 numbers after the decimal, therefore he should win this recall election

5) He's one of us; he uses Wikipedia for all his statistics.

4) In the last year he has improved to a fifth grade reading level from all the hate mail.

3) He launders money. Getting money to smell good consistently is no easy task.

2) Lost in the wilderness with nothing but a pitchfork, Scott Walker stayed alive for three weeks by making deals with squirrels. "I won't cut down your tree if you hand over that acorn."

1) Scott Walker will create hundreds of new jobs by enlisting specialized teams of pre-schoolers to create new accounting methods so he can quite literally "fudge the numbers".

Go vote, Wisconsin.

-DeMi

On π and Irrationality

This now begins my formal proof on why Pi is an irrational number...hah

But really, here's something I was musing on while in my Econ lecture today:

Make an irrational payment, and you'll be tied down for life. Let's look at an example.

"I'll give you $π for that blueberry pie"

...

"Sure, I don't even like blueberries."

...

"Hold on, do you want $3.14 or $3.15?"

...

"Does it even matter?"

              ...

"...Damn right it does."

Alright, so I'm not going to win any awards in script writing any time soon, but the point is the internal OCD accountant of the first person will be forever on edge that the debt can never be re-payed.

Scenario Uno: You pay $3.15. You over-payed. Shit, that's ~ 84.1% of a hard earned penny you just forked over to this other person. Plus, the blueberry pie wasn't even that good, just some store-made run of the mill pie. You berate yourself for over-calculating the worth of it, and most likely fall into a cyclical depression.

Scenario Deux: You pay $3.14. You under-payed. Shit, besides feeling like a huge jerk you are now indebted by ~15.9% of penny to some person who doesn't even know how to pick out a proper blueberry pie, or even freaking decide what they like. 

But you're an ingenious and resourceful individual. So, in Scenario Deux (see above) what you do is offer the person 3 coupons, specifically highlighting the fact that they are worth 1/20 of a cent.

But...that's exactly where your ingenuity ends and your years of self-loathing begin. One does not simply square a debt of irrationality.

What if you're the person in Scenario Uno (see above)? After breaking out of your depression, you rise up. You become the leader of your country. You force your people into a totalitarian state. Have your hired goons find and kill him. What's a fraction of a penny to a dead person anyways, am I right?

What are you musingon?

-Mi