UnKle Ks Kool Blog

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Cruise 2006

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Illinoy Caleb and His Jungle Gym

Friday, December 09, 2005

Calebite

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Menace

OWW!!!!! See his left big toe.

Now you know where the presents come from.

Looks innocent, but that heavy Bible is on the way to the floor from off the shelf (notice how he's holding it)

Getting around

Caleb stuff

Thanksgiving Weekend 2005 in Ohio

Caleb with Aunt Laura Parsell

Santa's little helper taking his horse for a ride

Kevin, Katrina, and Laura playing risk

Caleb and doors

2 Mice 1 trap

In 1975, give or take a year, I was in Caranavi, Bolivia. One morning as I approached the Kitchen, I saw a mouse heading for the mouse trap. I stopped and as I watched it coming up to the trap, another mouse darted for the trap's food prize, setting it off, catching both of them in the trap.

8 1's out of 9 dice in 1 roll

9 out of 9 would have been more amazing.

In 1980 in Lapaz, Bolivia on the 2nd floor of the WMPL mission house, I was playing 10,000 with 7 dice. I then decided to add two more dice. In one roll 8 out of 9 dice were ones.

In the game, 10,000,
3 ones in one roll = 1000 points
4 ones = 2000 points
5 ones = 4000 points
6 ones = 8000 points
7 ones = 16,000 points (but in 10,000, you can't go over 10,000)
8 ones in one roll would have been 32,000 points
9 ones would have been 64,000 points, which would have been good if we were playing 100,000

With 2 dice the odds are 1 in 36
With 3 dice the odds are 1 in 216
With 4 dice the odds are 1 in 1296
With 5 dice the odds are 1 in 7776
With 6 dice the odds are 1 in 46,656
With 7 dice the odds are 1 in 279,936
With 8 dice the odds are 1 in 1,679,616
With 9 dice the odds are 1 in 10,077,696

8 ones out of 9 would be 1 in 839,808 (8 dice odds divided by 2 for the 9th die)

This means that on average, you would have to roll the dice 839,808 times to get 8 ones out of 9 dice. That is a lot of rolls.

At 5 seconds a roll that would be

4,199,040 seconds or
69,984 minutes or
1166 hours or
146 days (at 8 hours per day--no lunch breaks or bathroom breaks) or
6 months (if you take Sundays off)

Fly Catching Chopsticks - True Story

In 1984 I was in the Marines at Camp Henoko in Japan in my baracks with a buddy. I showed him my new chop sticks and how to hold them properly.

He then told me about this new movie called the Karate Kid in which the old man caught a fly with his chop sticks. At that very moment, a fly was in the cubical, so I said, "You mean like this" as I stabbed in the air for the fly. Our jaws dropped to the floor as UNBELIEVABLY I had caught the fly with the tips of the two sticks that first attempt.

Caleb, Piano, Cleanex, Horses

Caleb loves the electric piano.

Remember, he's only 13 months old.

Loves to empty the cleanex box and the toilet paper rolls.

Caleb's favorite horses.

Riding high.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Caleb's 2nd Christmas

Hey, I'm growing up fast and before you know it, I'll be needing a car, BUT wait, I could use a car right now. The one behind me would be nice.

Like my Santa Suite?

Maybe if you're nice, I'll stop by your house too.

So how does Santa know whose naughty or nice? He has scouts. That's where I fit in. NOW YOU KNOW!!!

Friday, October 14, 2005

Canadian Suspension Bridge

It's a long way down..............

The gang

A bear thing

Indian Jodi

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Vancouver's Famous Suspension Bridge

Warren's Cabin by the bridge

The Fam on the big bridge

A survivor of the big bridge

The Family portrait

Canadian Totem poles. They're every where!

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Name: UnKle K

Born in Seattle. Went to College there. Spent a total of 1.5 years in Seattle. After 35 plus moves--lived in Bolivia 12 years, Also in MT, OR, CA, AL, SC, IL, MN, OH, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Barbados. I'm way behind on everything. Constantly trying to catch up with my life.

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