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Sat. October 21, 2006, 08:25am PDT
Urban fall color outing tomorrow
After some discussion the other day, I've made firm plans to head out tomorrow to capture some of the beautiful signs of fall color in Tacoma. Anyone that would like to join in is welcome, camera or not. I plan to see if anyone shows at 9am at the Tully's in Old Town [ map ] then loosely follow a route with stops something like:
- Dock Street - plenty of color along the hillside leading up from the water to the Stadium area
- Wright Park - lots of trees there, don't know if they're turning
- S. Yakima - if memory serves me, there's a great row of trees that turns bright red come Fall
- Wapato Park - never been there (for shame, I know) but it'd be great to get some water/tree shots
- Snake Lake - exact same reasons as above
- N. Pine and Union - great old neighborhoods with plenty of color
I plan to just go where the morning takes me. If you want to join in but can't meet up at 9am, give me a call on my cell at 253-229-5093 if you want to catch up at a later stop. I'm perfectly willing to take three folks other than me in my own car.
Hope to see some friendly faces tomorrow morning. Cheers!
Sat. October 21, 2006, 10:30pm PDT
Pizza price puzzle
Had a great afternoon/evening out with Angela and Steve up at University Village doing some shopping. After some prep at Crate and Barrel for their Xmas cocktail party and my purchase of a shiny new laptop from the Apple store, we grabbed some pizza dinner. A question arose, however, when we noticed the prices of different sized pizzas. A personal 6" pizza was about $4.50 while a 12" was nearly three times as expensive at $12.50. Why, if the pizza is only doubling in size did it cost so much more? In America, don't we usually get a discount when we buy things in bigger quantities? Yes, we do, dangit, and we did in this case as well. Although trivial, my 9th grade geometry kicked in and I did the math.
The problem, in this case, was how we were looking at the numbers forgetting about a little something called pi (pronounced "pie" as in pizza pie that we wanted to eat and get a good price for). What happens if we calculate the different in area of the two pizza sizes to see how the prices figure out? So I hopped to it armed with the equation pi x r2 to determine the area of a circle.
For the 6": 3.14 x 32 = 28.3 sq in
For the 12": 3.14 x 62 = 113 sq in
So, in the end, a customer would get nearly four times the pizza for three times the cost! Seems our American consumer attitudes and instincts were correct. Tune in next time when we find out how many prime numbers it takes to bring down a small nation.
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