Brian's Blog

I’m not sure what you will find here; general musings and maybe some technical stuff spattered here and there.

Monday, July 07, 2008


Beer Darts?

We drove out to my cousins house for the 4th of July weekend. She hosted a nice BarBQ Saturday night. We got to meet a lot of her friends, eat some good food, drink some beers, and chit chat. It was an all round good time.

What made the night even better? Beer Darts.

Beer Darts has to be the most idiotic game ever conceived, but I was hooked from the get go. Imagine two chairs set up about 50 paces apart facing each other; Four chairs if four people are playing, two on each side. You place an unopened beer can next to your chair on the ground and you're handed two darts. Your object is to throw your darts into the players beer can across from you. If you hit the can, they have to drink the beer down to the hole the dart made. The trick is to hit the can at the very bottom.

At the end, empty cans are counted and the person/team with the most empties loses, or wins depending on how you look at it.

I'm pretty sure we single handedly raised Anheuser-Busch's stock because of all the beer consumed that night. It didn't help that I was sitting across from the Beer Darts "ice man". He was popping beers right and left. I must of chugged.... well I don't even want to think about it.

If this sounds interesting here are some "official" rules. http://www.beerdarts.net/

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Friday, July 04, 2008


Euler Project

Lets say you wanted to calculate the sum of every even number in the Fibonacci sequence under 4 million. I believe this bit of code (c#) would do that. Why would you want to? I don't know.

double gr = (1 + Math.Sqrt(5))/2;
double sum = 0;
double fib = 0;
double c = 0;

while (fib < 4000000)
{
sum += fib;
c+=3;
fib = Math.Round((((Math.Pow(gr,c))/Math.Sqrt(5)) + (1/2)), 0);
}
Console.WriteLine("Sum = {0}", sum);

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008


Dusting Off the 'Ole Blog

I've got this crazy idea to revive this stupid blog. I'm not sure why... I know all of you reading this were on the edge of your seats for over a year just waiting for the next post. Well, now you can finally relax.

Since my last update, a lot has happened. This post will be a cliff notes version of my past year.
  1. My roomate/girlfriend went from Fiancee to Wife.
  2. My wife got a new job as a nanny.
  3. I got a new job as a geek.
  4. We bought a house.
Now you're up to speed. If you'd like to send me a late wedding gift, leave a comment and I'll help you work out the details.

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