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What Godel Has Done.

Building a Website (what they don’t tell you)

I read probably twenty to twenty-five articles on how to construct website, some more in depth, others more of a how-to-guide. None of them really prepared me properly in my opinion. The first version of lettergram.org managed to have anywhere from 500 to 2,000 visitors a day, depending on what day of the week and the amount I personally went out and advertised. Of course at the time Lettergram.org only managed maybe, ten how-to-guides and comparison posts. All ten combined gave me roughly 85% of my visitors.

Now however, I have none of that, and my website having been down 8 months I receive about 20 visits a day and I went out and deleted all the links I could find to old posts that were lost when my site was down. Some may ask why I went out spending time in order to do that, well to be honest it had to do with integrity, I did not want complaints or people looking down upon my website because of some old post. Instead I went out deleted all my links that I could find (several hundred) in the hopes that I could start fresh. Well, obviously with the fact solidified in my mind that no one will read this post, I go on wondering. What to do with this hunk of space I rented on the internet.

One option is to begin to repost often on things I find interested (as I had previous), as well as how to articles. Slow and steady I shall post places in my spare time in hopes of regaining a foot hold on the mass of the internet.

Or the second option, maintain this with some how-to-guides for friends, maybe some interesting stuff, but make a larger setting on my new website lettergram.net, it’s basically a website with guides on physics, much like patrickJMT on youtube. I simply make downloadable guides and youtube videos on physics. I have been doing it, but breaking into that market is making me want to commit suicide. Every day I awaken to school, work, then in my spare time I am trying to make some friendly, easy to understand guide, yeah right! I have maybe 6 up there, 30 pages of material, 4 videos, but receiving 4 hits a day and i’m too tired by the end of it to advertise.

PLEASE SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM OBLIVION!

 

Lettergram.net

 

 

Lettergram.net has officially been launched as of December 1, 2011 all pages are able to be viewed and accessible. Lettergram.net  is intended to be a resource for students in Physics currently, with eventually being branched out into Physics, Chemistry, Computer Programming, Biology, and Anatomy with study guides, related information, and videos. All resources accessible within two clicks (maximum), a very clean U.I., optional search bar, and hopefully in a few months enough advertising revenue to allow me to post advertisements and a donation button in order to keep both lettergram.org & lettergram.net for either free or at a net profit. My goal is to have all University Classical Physics & Quantum Mechanics completed by summer, with possibly some Chemistry, Computer Programming and Anatomy study resources coming out over that time span.

 

 

Business Proposal

At a family party one afternoon I am approached by a family member to discuss starting a business, the proposal is this:

One of my family members use to work as a chef and makes what many people consider the best potato salad that anyone has ever had, he proposed that him, myself, and perhaps one or two other individuals from my family (or close family friends) start a business producing this potato salad and selling it to local establishments. This family member has a bachelors in accounting, is about fifty years old, and is currently unemployed. He seems like a very hard worker and from what I know of him, he is a very hard worker, however I still have my doubts.

  1. Currently he produces a potato salad that takes roughly 3 hours to produce, costs about $35 (for a gallon and a half), and has ingredients such as pickle juice which would be slightly harder to obtain?
  2. On what size would this business be profitable and who would make up our market?
  3. We would need a facility to produce this, meaning more cost, and would it be done by hand or mechanized?
I told him I would get back to him with as much information as I can about similar products (because I am in fact interested), and try to formulate a practical strategy if possible. Here is what I have come up with so far and I would appreciate any reasonable input:
  1. Because our product has a very low shelf life we have two options, a) sell locally daily based on orders, meaning we would need to go to each company in the area to try and attain a contract; b) we jar the product or freeze it giving it a much longer shelf life and we can sell it to a larger area perhaps by order or find a chain to carry it.
  2. I would think if we can convince a major supplier to carry it we would set a contract and know how large of a place we can afford and perhaps or rent a factory to jar our goods. If however we sell locally we could probably do it by hand and will likely make very little due to the amount of time it takes (though from the three hours we could probably reduce it to maybe an hour)
  3. I believe creating a website for companies or local restaurants to buy our goods and place orders (for samples and large quantities alike) would be the easiest way to sell our product, this would reduce the need to have people stand by the phones or face to face contact with local businesses (obviously when first gaining a name we would need samples given to each business and probably commercials on tv or billboards)
I should add I live in a very urban area, no marketing experience (though I do know one or two with marketing degrees), and myself are a very hard worker.
The summery of all that I have stated above is this, the maximum amount we can produce by hand with lets say three people is estimated to be 4.5 gallons of potato salad an hour by hand, with a cost of roughly $30 (when bought in bulk, per gallon and a half), in order to make it profitable enough for those involved we would need to make $12 per quart or we would be making a total of $216 gross profit per hour (with three people working). After the cost of just buying the ingredients the profit would be $126, that does not include distribution, which again was estimated at 50 miles (gas at $4 and 25 mi to the gallon), $118 dollars remaining per hour. This does not include rent or the amount each person will receive.
Assuming a 40 hour work week and a $2500 rent per month there is $16380 dollars (if all product is sold), taxed at about 20% because its a family run business, then split among 3 individuals, the monthy pay would be: $4368.
Now if anyone has any suggestions (including how to make a viable website, or if they feel it is even viable), please state them. I would really like a website to reduce driving time an costs, and how to approach a significant business chain to carry our goods.

Unit Circle

The basic unit circle from any trig class is very easy to understand if several simple ideas are grasped:

Now here is what must be understood simply, FIND THE PATTERNS!!!!  take for example 30 degrees, if you take 30 degrees and do (Cos(30)) in your calculator you’ll get a number equivalent to the number √3/2 or exactly what the ‘x’ value is for 30 degrees in the picture. Now do the same for the (Sin(30)), I bet you’ll receive a number equivalent to the ‘y’ value of 30 degrees. Now if you have not been getting those numbers, that is because your calculator is not in degree mode, meaning it is likely in radian mode, WHICH SIMPLY MEANS YOU MUST LOOK AT WHAT FRACTION OF ‘Π’ there is at that angle, then do *(Cos(Π/6)) in this case to get the ‘x’ value or (Sin(Π/6)) to get the ‘y’ value, simple enough right?

It’s not over yet though there is still something else that must be understood, the unit circle is 360 degrees or 2Π around, meaning that it can be broken down into many small chunks all of which must be understood, all of which I do not feel like explaining, so here is a helpful hint, look at 150 degrees, it is 5Π/6….

HINT: 180-30 = 150 degrees; Π = 180 degrees, Π/6 = 30 degrees; Π - Π/6 = 5Π/6: Conclusion: 5Π/6 = 150 degrees

Download the link below for a picture version of the hint:

Unit Circle

Best of luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

College Algebra/Trigonometry review

College Algebra and Trigonometry Compass

George Domain 2.1

Catherine:

She sits, watching George crunch on his toast nonchalantly. A kitchen table crafted for four, yet only two seats are filled. This is Catherine’s worst nightmare.

The silence needs to be broken.

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Scar tissue is the result of large numbers of collagen fibers and relatively few blood vessels in an injured area.

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