Comments on: Formulaic Christmas nonsense http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2007/12/formulaic-christmas-nonsense/ Kicking ass in the name of science! Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:08:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jean-Philippe http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2007/12/formulaic-christmas-nonsense/#comment-5777 Jean-Philippe Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:11:49 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2007/12/formulaic-christmas-nonsense/#comment-5777 I wasn't born with the necessary equipment to be able to analyze or make any use at all of this formula. Nevertheless, from the blog author's finding that "In fact, you can have an infinitely good Christmas by not spending any time with your family at all!", I tend to approve & consider, from a very personal perspective I must admit, this formula to be ultimately valid & true. I wasn’t born with the necessary equipment to be able to analyze or make any use at all of this formula. Nevertheless, from the blog author’s finding that “In fact, you can have an infinitely good Christmas by not spending any time with your family at all!”, I tend to approve & consider, from a very personal perspective I must admit, this formula to be ultimately valid & true.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2007/12/formulaic-christmas-nonsense/#comment-4840 Andrew Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:17:53 +0000 http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2007/12/formulaic-christmas-nonsense/#comment-4840 I think what he's doing here really is defining a value PX that represents the perfect Christmas. This constant has some very strange units, and you can, for example, speng much less money as long as you're willing to eat more chocolate, more nut roast and walk less and play fewer games. Also he uses W to represent two things, which is very bad practice. My favourite bit, though, is that the Mail duplicated the division in the image, so Mail readers have this strange per-second-squared festive accelleration value. That, or they have to spend nine days with their family <i>every day</i>. I think what he’s doing here really is defining a value PX that represents the perfect Christmas. This constant has some very strange units, and you can, for example, speng much less money as long as you’re willing to eat more chocolate, more nut roast and walk less and play fewer games. Also he uses W to represent two things, which is very bad practice.

My favourite bit, though, is that the Mail duplicated the division in the image, so Mail readers have this strange per-second-squared festive accelleration value. That, or they have to spend nine days with their family every day.

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