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Subject:	Re: On the recursive subdivision of two-dimensional food items
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:16:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman wrote: > Last night at IHOP, after copious amounts of beer at Rocklands, snipped You know, I think I may take this as proof that I am missing the GEEK gene, as I heard the discussion first hand, and now I'm reading it again..... and STILL the *ONLY* part I understand is "copious amount of liquor." On a side note, Tommy I will say sorry about the grits thing though! (wink) Will you ever forgive me? On this night I realised that it's not always the best idea to eat nothing for hours, then pound back the whiskey drinks until the bar closes and THEN have dinner at 3 am.... Not alway the best idea, but sure darn funny. Janey "Red (feeling green) Brick"

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		Re: On the recursive subdivision of two-dimensional food items
(...) Heh heh, ok, lemme see if I can give it a non-geeky explanation... Instead of eating your french toast by carving out roughly equal-sized small pieces one at a time, do this: Cut the toast in half and consider each half a new piece of toast. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: On the recursive subdivision of two-dimensional food items
(...) You play with LEGO bricks. You openly admit it. You even joined an online community to bask in the brickiness of it all. You've got the Geek gene. Now, your gene might be smaller and more selective than those of others here, but it still (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		On the recursive subdivision of two-dimensional food items
Last night at IHOP, after copious amounts of beer at Rocklands, a few of us were talking about how we cut our food up into differently-sized portions during the eating process, and I realized that an algorithm exists for maximizing the total (...) (20 years ago, 16-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)

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