{"id":3310737,"date":"2006-02-14T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2006\/02\/14\/There-was-a-mad-scientist\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:37:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:37:47","slug":"There-was-a-mad-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3310737","title":{"rendered":"There was a mad scientist ("},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/horsewithnobunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/3310737\/'>Review<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>There was a mad scientist ( a mad &#8230;social&#8230; scientist ) who kidnapped<br \/>\nthree colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked<br \/>\neach of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no<br \/>\ncan opener.<\/p>\n<p>\nA month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer&#8217;s cell and<br \/>\nfound it long empty. The engineer had constructed a can opener from pocket<br \/>\ntrash, used aluminum shavings and dried sugar to make an explosive, and <br \/>\nescaped.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe physicist had worked out the angle necessary to knock the lids off the tin<br \/>\ncans by throwing them against the wall. She was developing a good pitching arm<br \/>\nand a new quantum theory.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mathematician had stacked the unopened cans into a surprising solution to<br \/>\nthe kissing problem; his dessicated corpse was propped calmly against a wall,<br \/>\nand this was inscribed on the floor in blood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n        Theorem: If I can&#8217;t open these cans, I&#8217;ll die.<\/p>\n<p>        Proof: assume the opposite&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review There was a mad scientist ( a mad &#8230;social&#8230; scientist ) who kidnapped three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3310737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[400569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}