My friends are dorks.

Jan 18, 2010 04:55

Three snippets of recent conversation:

Richard (getting dressed & pulling clean underwear out of a drawer): "I think these pants have had it. Look at the elastic! It's not elastic any more, it's undergoing plastic deformation!".

Me: "Hooke's Law in action!"

Tim (coming into our room as we were getting up): "Oh, you've got the big bear in bed ( Read more... )

chemistry, dangerously nerdy, wuzzie, tim+peter, yes i'm a geek

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turkish_coffee January 18 2010, 09:16:51 UTC
Wouldn't benzene be worth next to nothing then?

I mean, uh, I completely could not follow any of this at all. Nope. Not me...

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baratron January 18 2010, 23:35:55 UTC
Actually, it would be pretty much pointless having a Scrabble-type game with organic chemistry notation, because it's almost always possible to extend an organic molecule in some way. You could keep going with the same giant compound until you ran out of pieces. So the game would be based purely on luck rather than skill.

I do like the idea of having 2 sets of tiles though, element symbols and numbers, and having to combine them to make meaningful compounds. C and H would be the cheapest elements, then O and N. Assuming that it only included relatively common elements, things like arsenic and selenium would have the highest point scores.

I wonder what the exact wording of the patent on Scrabble is?

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turkish_coffee January 19 2010, 04:23:28 UTC
Well, it's U.S. Patent class 463 "AMUSEMENT DEVICES: GAMES"

It would differ by country, but in the U.S. you're allowed to patent an order in which a sandwich is assembled (provided no one else has, yet ( ... )

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redbird January 18 2010, 14:53:32 UTC
That sounds surreal; it makes playing Scrabble in English with a French-language set, using the French point values, seem very ordinary.

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turkish_coffee January 18 2010, 23:17:45 UTC
Do the French have a "ç" tile? How did that work in English? As a wildcard?

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redbird January 19 2010, 02:53:07 UTC
No, just the basic A to Z; cedillas and other accents are ignored.

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maniackatie January 18 2010, 15:39:44 UTC
"My friends are dorks."

And I bet you wouldn't have 'em any other way XD

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baratron January 18 2010, 23:25:50 UTC
I certainly wouldn't be able to relate to them if they were "normal"!

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