Save yourselves a shit load of effort by not introducing time travel as part of the storyline.
Right, we've had some feedback. Not feedback on here obviously, that'd be too easy, but on cg. There are two schools of thought about how LazyView could do better.
1. We need to try harder.
2. We are trying too hard.
Now, on first view point 1 might seem the logical solution. If LazyView isn't working too well then we should put more work into it, try harder, post more etc. Obviously this view is totally WRONG! We didn't get where we are today by working harder when things got difficult. We got there by being lazy and letting the problem solve itself. Anyone can get rich by working hard. Where's the fun in that?
It's a simple problem, with a simple solution. If something needs doing, get someone else to do it for you! So with that in mind we're launching a new competition for you to become writers for LazyView! That's right, all you need to do is send us a contribution and if you are a winner we'll put your contribution on the site! WOW! What a prize! The best entrant of each month will be crowned Author of the Month and gain automatic entry into the LazyView Hall of Fame.
If you're really, really good we might even add you to the permanent staff of LazyView. You could become part of our thousand dollar empire! Sure, you'd be a very lowly unpaid part of the empire, more of a glorified tea boy/girl than anything else, but everyone has to start somewhere, and everyone needs hot caffeinated beverages made for them regularly.
So get writing and e-mail your submissions to letmedoyourworkforyou at lazyview.com, change the at to an @ obviously. We just don't want to be spammed.
You can write about any subject really, if you want to you can make some kind of loose pretence to link your article to laziness but it's not a requirement. Get writing!
I was just reading this article on BBC News about the problem we have in the UK of not enough people studying maths, and the general cultural issue of maths being seen as difficult and uncool to be good at.
I always thought it was weird that people have this attitude towards maths, at my house when I was little maths was always talked about as a fun interesting thing, and possibly as a result of that or possibly because of some mental aptitude I always found it really easy. I did Maths, Further Maths and Physics A-Levels because the amount of duplication on the courses meant it was much less work than three completely different A-Levels. And you got no essays to write.
The thing that really surprised me about that article is that you have proper adults, presumably out working in the real world, saying they don't use maths in the real world. Really? What jobs are they doing? Even if you aren't doing a mathematical job there are tons of areas where you use maths every day.
eg. in light of current housing market problems I have been making a few calculations around mortgages. A simple calculation might be if house prices drop by x% how much would I have to overpay my mortgage by to make sure I have paid off enough of the loan to be able to get a remortgage deal this time next year? (too much)
People must be working stuff like this out all the time. What difference will a fuel price rise of 5p make to my monthly fuel costs? How many people spend any time at all having to work with spreadsheets, performing computations on rows and getting complex reports out? Or have to create or read any kind of graph? That's all maths. Builders need to work out stuff like "how much cement will I need?", or "given that VAT is 17.5%, how much should I knock off for cash if I'm not going to declare this to the taxman?", or "how much of this weeks salary can I send back to Poland?". What kind of surcharge will I have to pay for my flight at the check-in desk if I weigh 220lbs, my bag is 33lbs and it's a 5$ surcharge per kilo for every kilo, or part thereof over 100 kilos.
Perhaps people don't realise how much maths they are using when doing stuff like that.
The other day I had to work out the difference in area between taking a circle for a "within x miles" calculation and just using a square.* I ended up having a discussion with a drunk friend of my brothers that evening. He actually said "When does anyone use something like geometry in the real world?".
Sometimes knowing a bit of maths and being able to work something out makes life easier, sometimes it's quite fun to be able to work something out. It can also save you money and money = work therefore maths = good.
*Answer is that the square is 4/π times larger, or the area of the circle is 79% of the area of the square.
We've talked in the past about the ultimate way to order a meal at a restaurant. The benefits are various and plentiful. There's another benefit we forgot to mention (or maybe we did. You go back and read the old post and tell me. I'm not gonna do it). A very important one at that. There's a monetary benefit too!
I bring this up because just yesterday I achieved Regular status at yet another eatery. This time at Jersey Mike's. I know I achieved the status because I got my first monetary kickback from them.
See, when you become a regular at an establishment, exact change becomes a thing of the past. If the meal costs $7.53, you give them 8$ and get 50 cents back. $8.56, give them $9 get 55 cents back.
Now I know what you're thinking, what happens if the price is $7.49? Do they only give you 50 cents back? Don't be retarded. In this scenario you DO get 51 cents back. A restaurant is never going to short a customer because they know you're just the kind of petty asshole to get angry over a lost penny. the general rule is, regulars don't get more than 1 or 2 pennies back as change. We're too awesome for pocketfuls of pennies. It's sort of an unspoken thanks for being a consistent customer.
I save 3 cents everytime I go to Chilis. And now I save 1 cent everytime I go to Jersey Mike's. A bit Jewish, yes. And that may not seem like a lot, but as I calculate that out ....over 200 pennies saved per year. That's 2 whole dollars. A couple extra dances at a strip club right there. Or half a gallon of gas.
I installed the latest version of Firefox the other day, and it prompted me to install the British English spell checking dictionary. It's great. I think spell checking has been in Firefox 2.0 since it launched, but as I had my language settings on en-gb (British English) and no dictionary installed, it didn't work. If you fancy getting your spell check working, so your posts on blogs and various internet forums look less retarded, but are too lazy to spend any time actually learning how to spell you can get all the different languages of Firefox dictionaries here.
Amusingly, according to the dictionary, the only thing misspelled in this post is Firefox. OK and blogs, but that's not funny.
When violently quashing dissident uprisings, try not to shoot any foreign journalists. It'll make life a lot easier in the long run.
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