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The Rockwood Mailbag

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Updated on March 2, 2003
		February 26, 2004 Brian, The E-Week archive is great - but where's the one that featured the Knights? I wanna see it!! ERIN GO BRAGH! -Lynn "E-Queen 99" Cabrera
		Just for you, Lynn, we dug waaaaay back in the Rockwood archive to find a joke that no one but OU graduates will get. Here you go!
		February 26, 2004 Holy crap, I got Haiku of the Week! That speaks volumes of the competition. Some answers to last week's problems: 1. They will both drink their 11th beer at 10:00pm... so 9:30pm. -OR- Engineers hold their liquor better than anyone, so never. 2. 45.356 ft/s (use metric next time, PLEASE) 3. No - the moment of the center of gravity about the pivot point (police barrier) still exceeds that of the beads. (Could you possibly look into setting up an RSS feed? It would make it easier for people to see when your site is updated...) --Randy
		Well, Randy, if you just made Rockwood your home page, you'd always know when it was updated, wouldn't you? As far as your answers go, they're all correct, although you didn't show your work on that last one. But, speaking of correct answers, haikus, and the metric system (okay, it's a reach, but work with us here), we made a little error in last week's Haiku Thursday. It turns out Sarcasmo did have one right answer, he just unexpectedly converted it into metric units. Why, we don't know, but the answer was correct nonetheless. Just thought you should know.
		February 27, 2004 Love your site, hit it at least 3 times a week generally. MWF usually but if a comic goes up late I usually check the next day also. In answer to the first question though of Engineer week The Drinking Engineer will actually start at the same rate of inebriation they will be equal at every half hour interval. Reason for this being that Alcohol is metabolized by Zero order Kinetics. This means that regardless of the concentration of alcohol in his blood his liver will always metabolize at the same rate. Asprin is one of the only other things metabolized in this manner, most other things are more heavily metabolized when greater concentrations exist in the body. Anyway the rate at which the alcohol is metablolized (assuming a average condition liver) is approximately one drink per half-hour (assuming 1 drink to be either 12oz beer/10 ounce wine or 1 shot liquor). Because of this the crowd has never been inebriated and the Engineer will never be inebriated either. Practical applications of this are that if you get to where you want to be drunkenwise as long as you remember to only refill at 12 and 6 (drink em up and slam em down) or only drink at 3 and 9 (drink to the right drink to the left), you can hold your buzz effectively forever. Other two questions I can't answer as easy but being a Pharmacist (and a drinker) the first one is very simple. --chris kelso
		Oh surrrre! Get all educational on us! Well, Chris, knowing nothing about pharmacy, we'll have to concede that you know far more about this subject than us. Although, we do find it a little unsettling that a pharmacist knows how to keep a perpetual buzz. Maybe we'll just cruise past your store down to the pharmacy on the corner.
		February 27, 2004 Engineer Weak. Well after trying to figure out the answers 20 years out of college and doing project related engineering instead of real engineering, anyway. Will the answers be posted? I have validation issues, so I need to know if these are right or not. So the answers I get are as follows: 1. At 9:30 pm, both will have had their 10th drink, but at 10 pm, both will be taking their 11th drink. 2. Beads have to travel 30 horizontal feet in the time it takes to drop 7 ft vertically. ..5at^2=d ..5(32.17ft/s^2)t^2=7ft t=(14ft/32.17ft/s^2)^.5 t=.6600s v=30ft/.6600s v=45.45ft/s 3. The fulcrum is above the original COG, therefore, the moment about the fulcrum is counterclockwise (I'm saying the moment is negative). After adding the beads, the sum of the moments is: =((2cos45-.5)^2)20)-(.5^2)130) =(.914^220)-(.25130) =-15.78 Since the moment is still negative, the engineer does not topple over. Thanks for the quiz. It was fun! --Michael Kress
		Good job, Michael! Go ahead and feel validated, now!
		March 1, 2004 I couldn't read that last word in the headline. What happened to Michael Moore? Stoned? Steamed? Hmmm... --Kyle Harr
		That would be stomped, Kyle.
		March 1, 2004 Just curious, why name the strip Rockwood? --Susan Rockwood-Gallant
		We named it after you, Susan! And don't let anyone ever tell you that we named it after something else.
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