Kindergarten Google – A to Z and 1 to 10

Have you ever taken the time to see exactly what the A to Z search on Google comes back with? We start by simply typing in a single letter on Google and seeing what the first return is. For the most part, we find a notable pattern, but with a few bizarre oddities:

• Sometimes, an article on Wikipedia is referenced “ie, an article on the letter ‘b’ “
• There are a few stock symbols
• Many mathematical constants

Funny items

• The letter “S” brought up Queen’s University… huh?
• The letter R brought up a project that’s commonly referred to as the “S” project
• There’s a little bit of toilet humour under “P”

I thought of this article a while back, but seems like a good waste of time to me! Let’s begin!

Section 1 : A to Z

A – Links in HTML documents The destination anchor of a link may be an element within an HTML document. … When the A element’s href attribute is set, the element defines a source

B – B – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee or occasionally be (pronounced /biː/), plural bees.

C – the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s

D – DOMINION RES NEW (NYSE)

43.38 -0.04 (-0.09%) 23 Apr 9:43am ET
Open: 43.42 High: 43.42 Low: 43.15		Volume: 121,193 Avg Vol: 2,889,000 Mkt Cap: 25.04B

E -

e = 2.71828183

Save Money, Do Your Own Plumbing!

This article isn’t exactly about numbers, but it can be.

The background story is that the 1-1/2″ ABS drain tubing from my kitchen was sheared off in the drain pipe in my basement.

Many things were tried by the previous owner including crazy glue, abs cement, bondo!!! but nothing stopped the leak of weird kitchen drain liquid. Unfortunately, there was absolutely no way to fix this except to replace the entire Y-joint.

This weekend I got tired of looking at the neverending dripping creek in my basement, so I decided to rent a jackhammer, and fix that drain!

Unfortunately, the repair job wasn’t easy because the Y-joint piece (called an ABS Sanitary Tee apparently) had to be replaced in it’s entirety, which was buried 2 inches into the concrete, plus I had to get down a little further to get a clean piece of pipe to join to.

Based on plumber estimates, the total for a professional plumber would be about $400.00 CDN.

I spent

• $54.00 on the 4 hour rental of the small jackhammer from Home Depot
• $28.00 on a construction grade shovel (spade)
• $29.00 on ABS fittings : Sanitary Tee, 1-1/2″ Tubing, 1-1/2″ Coupler and Elbow, ABS Cleanout Fitting
• $4.00 on Bag of Cement (Half still remains unused).
• 5 hours of personal time including prep, work, and cleanup.

Materials I already had included

• Bucket to mix concrete
• Cement trowel
• ABS Cement
• Saw

Finished Plumbing and Concrete

Useful Perl Concepts and Examples

Here’s a list of useful Perl concepts and examples that I have compiled for my brother, and anyone else who might have an interest in Perl.

If there’s any examples you’d like to see or you have something useful for others, please comment!  Thanks!

I use perl all the time at the telecommunications company where I work. I use it to process Gigabyte-large files with complex algorithms, gathering hourly statistics off of remote devices, and to identify patterns.

Ordinarily, I don’t publish such geeky content, but considering it’s been a while since my last post, and that my brother has taken an active interest in scripting, I decided to put this out there, for posterity sake.

Enjoy!