Thoughts on various random topics from tuning a guitar to aiming a bow. http://www.koniaris.com/ en Copyright (c) 2000-2004, Kleanthes Koniaris. All Rights Reserved. kgk@koniaris.com Mon, 05 Jul 2004 08:03:37 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sadly, most people have no training in color matching, and this shame is visible to the whole world---but easily rectified! http://www.koniaris.com/color/ The concept of "one non-black" enables one to dress effortlessly and yet always look presentable. http://www.koniaris.com/dress/ There is only one correct convention to set any watch with a twenty-four hour hand. http://www.koniaris.com/rolex/ The Dvorak keyboard requires only 58% of the planar finger movement of a QWERTY keybord! http://www.koniaris.com/dvorak/ The casino odds of the Baccarat game are computed. http://www.koniaris.com/math/baccarat/ The casino odds of the Keno game are computed. http://www.koniaris.com/math/keno/ Spirographs provide a wonderful excuse to program in Adobe PostScript, a language that can prove surprisingly useful if you must generate graphics. http://www.koniaris.com/math/keno/ My simple Java applet shows the current phase of the Earth's moon. http://www.koniaris.com/lunar/ While everybody thinks that they know how to steer, it took Bobby Ore to properly extend "shuffle steering" into what is undoubtedly the best steering technique known. http://www.koniaris.com/auto/steering/ If you're looking for something new to learn while driving, and your car or truck has a manual gearbox, then double-declutching and gas-blipping might be just the ticket (pun intended), particularly for those who are interested in racing. http://www.koniaris.com/auto/blip/ We attempt to model archers of various disciplines and compare them, head to head, despite the fact that they don't shoot upon common targets. (We also study the scoring benefits of "fat" target arrows.) http://www.koniaris.com/archery/angles/ Ideally, one should aim an Olympic target bow (or air pistol, air rifle, etc.) with both eyes open. The resulting "ghost" images seen by many people (including me) can be confusing, but they are easy to understand (and ultimately ignore). http://www.koniaris.com/twoeyes/ Everybody likes free archery targets that can be printed on a nearby color printer. The novel thing about my free targets is that they contain an overlay of grid lines spaced by 1moa. These targets can only be used correctly at their rated distance, but provide a very powerful tool for the analysis of groups of arrows. http://www.koniaris.com/archery/targets/ If one fires arrows with differing weights, they will land at different heights upon the target. Given reasonable vertical tolerances, weight matching turns out to be extremely important, to a degree that seems excessive (at first). http://www.koniaris.com/archery/weight/ Musical notation is rich in historical legacy, and sometimes it's nice to pause and try to put it into simple context: We look at octave numbers, semitones, and frets on a guitar neck. http://www.koniaris.com/music/notes/