Cake Cutting

Cutting a cake so everyone gets a good piece can be tricky, even more difficult when there are many people to cut for.


Some brainiacs have a solution! (Though not one the average man can comprehend... maybe they'll release a cake-cutting phone app?)

"...For measurable utility functions, we find a fully polynomial-time algorithm for finding an approximate envy-free allocation of a cake..."

Yoink!

Kato recently blogged of his trials and tribulations attempting to eat cake from a ziplock bag.

(We've all been there, don't try to pretend you're above such things.)

I posted my solution in his comments section, but then realized that the world at large should be able to benefit from my sage culinary wisdom - - Also, I couldn't think of anything else to post.

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I would recommend this as the best method of eating cake from a ziplock:

1) Secure at least 8oz of whole cow's milk @ 40 degrees F, in a glass

2) Make sure the ziplock is tightly zipped

3) Pulverize the cake with your thumbs (NOT your fingers)

4) Cut a .5 inch hole in the bottom left corner of the bag

5) Roll the top of the bag down to tightly contain the cakey contents

6) Squeeze the cake through the hole cut in step 3

7) Pretend you're an Astronaut, and it's your birthday

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Any day you can pretend you're an Astronaut is a good day.

Real Life Conversation # 11

How you doing today?

I'm good. It's Kink Day at Jennifer Cruise's Blog.

Oh? Ok. Have fun.

What's wrong?

Nothing. Hey, you're on vacation - get your kink on.

What the - No, I said "cake".

It's all good baby - either way. Have fun, I gotta go.