BRAND NEW SHOW May 2, 9, 16
First stop is a skit based entirely on fuzzy-wuzzy wittle animals. It's a little song parody called "Bunny Parade" and let me just say this: instant classic.
As I'm sure everyone knows, the first thing a baby focuses on is the hairline, as it provides the most contrast between light and dark on those huge blurry blobs they see as faces. Well our next skit is called "Hairline Hospital", a skit where we almost exclusively point at our hairlines and gurgle and coo and say "aren't you cute!" in our cutesiest voices. Not quite a classic, but very solid. We follow this up with "The Contrast Kids" and "Dark/Lightbox". These aren't very good skits, but Ellie will be able to see them at least!
Next we have "Xylophone", where it's just Chris playing a xylophone. He focuses on one note at a time, to further Ellie's experiential learning without going too quickly. Chris will intermittently stop to eat carrots and say how healthy-wealthy they are. It's hilarious off-the-cuff ad-libs like that give our shows spice!
After "Lenny the Locomotive" and "the Zwieback trilogy", we'll be just about ready to wrap up our show. And what better way to do it than with "Lullabye", a sincerely sweet skit where we perform an all-original lullabye song written by our own Jeff Solomon? It's really, really not funny at all.
So I hope that answers your question and I hope you can make it to the Crime Machine which we have officially renamed Ellie's Rainbow-striped Learning Fun-venture! Tell Ellie we say hi and to FIGHT THE BABINSKI RELFEX AS HARD AS SHE CAN. She doesn't have to fan her toes when tickled; she's better than that.
But yes, down to brass tacks you did not write to me to receive an earful of weepy trips down Memory Lane! No, you needed me to solve your math problem, much in the way that you needed to crib off of my examinations and steal my homework while I was taking my Evening Constitutional. It is even reminiscent of the time that you stole my Lady on the eve of the Spring Ball...never content to do your own legwork, Mr. Von Gouley, are you? Who are you trying to swindle now?
Suffice to say, I am not about to reveal to you the straight-out answer which you seek. Instead, I shall direct you to two small bits of computer code, which I had drafted for me by my good friends Katherine Copic (Physics Doctoral Candidate at the University of Michigan) and Daniel Spoonhower (Computer Science Doctoral Candidate at Carnegie Mellon). The first, by Ms. Copic is in C++:
#include main() { int thenumber = 1891792; int found_it = 0; int sum_of_cubes = 0; for (int first = 1; first <= 124; first++){ for (int second = 1; second <= 124; second++) { sum_of_cubes = (first*first*first) + (second*second*second); if (sum_of_cubes == thenumber) { std::cout << "The numbers are: " << first << " and " << second << "!" << std::endl; found_it = 1; } else if (sum_of_cubes > thenumber) break; } } if (found_it == 0) std::cout << "wha happened?!" << std::endl; } And the second in Standard ML, by Mr. Spoonhower: (* find_sum_of_cubes : int -> (int * int) option *) fun find_sum_of_cubes a = let fun outLoop x y = let fun inLoop x y = let val r = x * x * x + y * y * y in if r = a then SOME (x, y) else if r > a then NONE else inLoop x (y + 1) end in case inLoop x y of s as SOME _ => s | NONE => outLoop (x + 1) y end in outLoop 1 1 end Hope this answers your question, Mr. Von Gouley. See you at the reunion!
