[personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou! (fwd)

[balfour at grandecom.net]

Here is a link to a Runza Recipe:
http://www.kitchengifts.com/runza.html

Quoting Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu>:

> Exactly...up here we've been known to use pitchers for that game, and that
> usually doesn't go past 5-6 flips!
>
> On a side note, does anyone have a link to the Runza recipe that used to be
> on Huskerpedia (or any other runza recipe link)? Thanks.
>
> Scott in NY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com]On Behalf
> Of Mike Jaixen
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:45 PM
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou! (fwd)
>
>
> I think it all depends on how you flip them, and if
> you try to flip them into something.
>
> --- Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu> wrote:
>
> > Flip 200? Holy crap, I wouldn't get past 5!
> >
> > Scott in NY
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: husker-bounces at tssi.com
> > [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com]On Behalf
> > Of Skylar Dodds
> > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:49 AM
> > To: Husker List
> > Subject: Re: [personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou!
> > (fwd)
> >
> >
> > Hello Husker Fans,
> >
> > Wow, Friday evenings at the Nolan residence must be
> > intense!  :)
> >
> > But to give you credit, I haven't the time nor the
> > patience (internet
> > or not) to flip a coin 1000 times.
> >
> > I'm quite certain that after flip 200 I'd be moving
> > on to something
> > else.
> >
> > --
> > Go Skers,
> >  Skylar
> > mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
> >
> > >> Well, that all depends on whether the coin is a
> > Nebraska state quarter or a Missouri one. Also, who
> > is flipping the coin? Is there wind to influence the
> > flip? ;)
> >
> > MN> I haven't tested any of the state quarters, but
> > I did test the 'sandwich'
> > MN> quarter versus a silver quarter some years ago,
> > by doing over 1000 coin
> > MN> flips with 5 quarters of each type, flipping
> > onto a solid surface.  This
> > MN> took me quite a few hours, about 2 1/2 days as I
> > recall, but it was
> > MN> before we had the Internet to consume all our
> > spare time.  :-)
> >
> > MN> My conclusion was that the sandwich quarter was
> > slightly more biased in
> > MN> favor of heads than a silver quarter was.  I
> > think it has to do with
> > MN> the physics of the surfaces.
> >
> > MN> BTW, one of my favorite stats-related questions
> > in college was this:
> >
> > MN> You're given a number of quarters and a roll of
> > tape.  How many quarters
> > MN> do you have to tape together in a stack until
> > the odds are roughly
> > MN> even that you will get 'heads', 'tails', or
> > 'edge'?
> >
> > MN> It turns out there is a solution to the problem
> > based on the ratio of the
> > MN> diameter of the coin to its thickness, but it is
> > a non-trivial problem in
> > MN> mechanical dynamics.
> >
> > MN> Engineers are weird, another bull-session
> > question we used to debate
> > MN> had to do with how hard the Jolly Green Giant
> > would have to push on the
> > MN> John Hancock building in Chicago to topple it.
> > (This one is related to
> > MN> the wind strength question that engineers have
> > to consider when analyzing
> > MN> the plans for a tall bulding, so it isn't just
> > an 'academic' issue.)
> > MN> --
> > MN> Mike Nolan
>
>
> Mike Jaixen
> Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com
>
>
>
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