The Cloth Whizzer

Look out! Here it comes! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the...Phd Classic Pocket Disc!

This toy is like a Frisbee, but better. It's made of cloth so if you're playing indoors, you don't have to worry about breaking anything. It's also extremely versatile, so you don't just have to play Frisbee, you can play golf, " Duck Huntin' " and " Ceiling Fan 500"!

Right now, I'm participating in two Phd competitions. I'm in the Best Game competition, where if I win, I get another Phd, and the Phd Name competition, where you think up of another way to spell "Phd"!

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The Sheriff Show

In what town does the town drunk lock himself in, the deputy sheriff has two girlfriends ( even though he isn't that smart and attractive), and the sheriff plays tricks on the deputy sheriff? Why, Mayberry, of course!

The Andy Griffith Show is about a sheriff called Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) in a small, isolated town in North Carolina called Mayberry,along with his deputy, Barney Fife ( Don Knotts). Andy has a son, Opie ( the famous Ron Howard, though Ron is just a boy then,), as well. In the pilot, there are two housekeepers mentioned: Rose ( Mary Treen), of whom which just the wedding ceremony is shown, and Aunt Bee ( Frances Bavier), who is the new housekeeper. In the plot, Rose, Opie's favorite housekeeper, is getting married, and Andy calls up Aunt Bee, his old housekeeper. However, Opie isn't willing to give Aunt Bee a chance. And when she... But I won't spoil it for you.

Hope you like it!

Book Review: Moby Dick, Unabridged

Moby-Dick is about a famous "White Whale" and a captain's quest to kill him.

In Moby-Dick, the narrator, Ishmael (of "Call me Ishmael" fame,") goes to "explore the watery world", along with his friend, the "savage" Queequeg. Ishmael chooses to ship on the whaling ship Pequod, and he is told by the ship's owners that it is being captained by a certain Ahab. The owners,a certain Bildad and Peleg, also tell him that Captain Ahab lost a leg, and that it was "devoured,chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat". Also, Bildad is a bit pious, so he'll only give Ishmael the 777th lay(that's his share of the money) while Peleg wants to give him the 300th lay. In the end of the chapter, Peleg wins.

On the way back to their inn, they run into Elijah, a supposed "prophet", who warns them that they should not go on the Pequod. He says that everyone will die, but Ishmael takes no heed. Also, when he last meets Elijah, Elijah points out some men hurrying towards the ship and asks Ishmael "Did ye see anything looking like men going towards that ship a while ago?".

To find out what happens...read the book! It's long-winded and the author's research is mostly irrelevant but read it still. It's good for you!

A Mathematical Thought

I have just had an interesting mathematical thought, which I do not know the answer to.
Here it is:

I was watching a documentary called " The Story of Maths" hosted by Marcus du Sautoy, a documentary about the history of mathematics, and Marcus said that Euler proved that the infinite series 1/1+1/4+1/9... equals (pi^2)/6.
( My mother thought this very odd.) Anyway, my thought was this:
Supposed that you calculated all the results of all of these kinds of series ( thus, you would be calculating 1/1+1/8+1/27... and 1/1+1/16+1/81... and so forth.) My question is, is there a pattern between all these results? And if so, can you use this pattern to calculate the result for the next infinite series? ( that is, if you have the pattern and also have the result for the series before it, can you calculate the result of the series after it?)
Hope you enjoy this problem!