Ping Pong Equipment

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Before I begin, I have to admit that I’m a tad bit of a GEEK. Besides spending lots of time at the gym, having extroverted tendencies, and having a natural inclination for anything that makes my heart skip a beat (i.e. skydiving and rock climbing), I’m a bit of NERD that spends hours upon hours (did I say hours?) in front of my laptop. Ok, in these times of Facebook and Twitter, who doesn’t? Well, I majored in Computer Science and wrote programs using Pascal in high school, not to mention Assembly Language in college. I should get TECH “CRED” just for mentioning Pascal/Assembly Language and being in my early thirties. Ok if that does not convince you, I think that the Intel commercial portraying Ajay Bhatt (the co-inventor of Universal Serial Bus or USB) as a Rock Star was brilliant.

I was lucky enough to attend a high school that required its students to have majors. My sister, who is six years older than me, attended the same high school and majored in computer science, so we had a computer in the house since I was ten-years old. I remember getting a book, which contained countless programs written in BASICA. In order to play the games, I had to copy the programs and execute them in the computer. It seemed like an easy typing exercise, but turned out to be a total nightmare. Essentially if one word or character is off the program wouldn’t run. The first application that I attempted to run was a ping pong game. That was an early lesson in debugging code.

Although, that episode mentally scarred me as a child, I continued with Computer Science throughout high school and college. As a hobby, I also did some creative writing when I was younger. Fast forward about 10 years, Computer Science turned into a career and Creative Writing turned into two books (“Ice Cream Melts” and “A Souvenir For My Mom”).

We are now in 2009 and Social Networking has become an Addiction with Facebook leading the way as the drug of choice. I thought it would be a cool idea to combine fiction and social networking so I recently completed a book called “Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts.” The book shows parallelisms with chemical addiction and social networking addiction. I did two things to make it mirror reality:

I made myself an actual character in the book who starts a group called Social Networking Anonymous or S.N.A mimicked from Alcoholics Anonymous or A.A. Collaborated with the New York Daily News and used real life articles.

Here is where the Information Technology background helps. We created an interactive blog, which allows everyone to write about their Social Networking/Facebook Addiction stories. Actually, all books that I write have an interactive blog component, which can be found at http://www.IceCreamMelts.com/blogs.  The next step in our “EVIL” plans is to give all Authors the ability to create interactive book-based blogs on our IceCreamMelts.com platform. At the time of this writing I have my pinky in my mouth and my neighbors can hear the echoes of a sinister laugh.

The Nintendo Wii works from head to toe to bolster the intellect and physical structure.

The Nintendo Wii takes a different approach from competing game systems like Playstation and Xbox. The Wii does not offer the exorborant tech graphics as the Playstation 3 or Xbox, nonetheless, it provides an totally new gaming experience for the player. With Playstation and Xbox, you’re sitting stationary using only your fingers doing the work. The Wii is notably more physically interactive over the other systems, meaning your fingers are not the sole body part in motion.

The Wii collection of games provides an abundance of categories for most everyone’s tastes, for instance brain teasers, health and fitness, party, sports, racing, and much more! Having said that, you won’t locate many violent, bloody games inside the Wii collection. The majority of are family games and are suitable for virtually every age level.

Childhood weight problems is really a serious health problem today. Many schools almost everywhere in the United States have backed or included the Wii in his or her physical education programs. In 2008, people from the uk federal government endorsed using Wii’s in schools subsequent to a pilot program in 5 schools in Worcestershire observed how the Wii helped increase the activity amount and heart rate in the participating students. The Wii gives the draw of a video game and the positive aspects of exercise and physical activity.

The weather may no longer be an defense not to workout. Using the Wii you are able to exercise within the comfort of your own home, even if it’s a scorching 100 degrees or a frigid- 20 degrees outdoors.

There are lots of physical fitness games in the Wii library. Among the many popular exercise games is the Wii Fit. The Wii Fit utilizes a platform known as a balance board to determine the player’s body mass index. The balance board can also be used in the training activities, which contain yoga, aerobics, strength training, and stabilize games. The newly reworked Wii Fit Plus was launched in October 4, 2009 and gives a brand new calorie burning counter and also a new training plus category with new yoga and strength training workouts.

The Wii Fit isn’t exclusively for home use. A number of hospitals utilize the Wii Fit to facilitate physical rehab and some nursing facilities utilize it for his or her inhabitants as a form of small impact workout.

The classic Wii game is Wii Sports. Wii Sports includes the game of tennis, baseball, bowling, boxing, and golf. For recreational tennis player, this game doesn’t entail only fun for me, yet but also difficult. The follow- up game to Wii Sports is Wii Sport Resort. This newest addition for the Wii Sports family consists of the games of sword play, kayaking, archery, table tennis, basketball, and many more! You shouldn’t be fooled! These games can really work yourself physically and you may even find yourself breaking into a sweat. The Wii Sports Resort additionally contains the Wii Motion Plus, which is said to make the controller more accurate.

One more incentive to play harder on Wii Sports Resort is the possible opportunity to see a celebrity in the audience. The higher your rating, the more celebrity vistors you will see. You may even find yourself playing against a celebrity! I was once playing ping pong versus Michael Jackson! He was actually pretty good.

The Wii games not only exercise your body, but also the mind too. There are lots of Wii puzzle games that test knowledge and strategy. One of the best Wii games is Big Brain Academy. This game tests and aids enhance memory, math, logic, visual identification, and analysis. This game can be played on your own or in a group setting. Big Brain Academy is so fun that you will not realize you’re working your brain cells!

Yet another interesting brain game is Smarty Pants. This is a multi- player, team based game, which is fun for a family or a group of friends. The game tests your knowledge on current events, history, pop culture, sports, and more. However this game is more than a pop quiz. They throw in a tug- of- war and a dance off to keep things enjoyable.

The Nintendo Wii is a lot more than a game system. It aids physical activity, family bonding, learning, and a healthier lifestyle.

For more information visit: Top Ten Wii Games

So, first off the class is chemistry and our assignment is to make a visual representation of a chemical bond. The compound I chose is sulfur hexafluoride which has octahedral geometry. To see an example of the aforementioned compound you can look here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride <-

My question is... what are some easy ways to represent this compound? (The bonds and the actual chemicals)

So far, I am leaning towards ping pong balls and it would be great if you guys were to lend some tips on how to represent the bonds between them, while still keeping the entire structure stable. I was also considering paper mache, but I DO want them to be as smooth as possible, would that method hinder this preference?

I am against the use of balloons, flimsy materials (ex: paper), styrofoam, large sports equipment (ex: basketballs, soccer balls), candy (ex: gumballs), toothpicks, and anything TOO weighty. The reason for the weight restrictions is I plan to hang in a sort of puppet-like manner in which it'll be suspended by ropes/strings connected to a wooden hand hold above.

I want my end result to look similar to the second image of sulfur hexafluoride on this page -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride <-

Thank you for any help you may have to offer!

Game #2 in the ping pong tournament between Detroit Pistons (Robert) vs Los Angelos Lakers (Chris) song: Jump on it

Finding it had to show others what a “serving size” or “portion size” is? Below are some ways you can help others with picturing what a serving size or portion size is by referring to everyday objects. Using these everyday examples can help you show others that they may actually be eating more servings from the RDA “Food Pyramid” than they think!!
(Note: hands and finger sizes vary from person to person. These are guides only)

Bread, Rice, Cereal and Pasta

1 cup of potatoes, rice or pasta ===== a tennis ball, 1 scoop of ice cream
1 pancake ===== a compact disk (CD)
½ cup of cooked rice ======= a cupcake wrapper full
1 piece of cornbread ======== a bar of soap
1 slice of bread ======== an audiocassette tape
1 cup of pasta, cereal, or spaghetti ========= a fist
2 cups of cooked pasta ======== an outstretched hand

Vegetables

1 cup of green salad ====== a baseball or a fist
1 baked potato ====== a fist
¾ cup of tomato juice ====== a small Styrofoam cup
½ cup of cooked broccoli ====== a scoop of ice cream
½ cup serving ====== 6 asparagus spears, 7-8 baby carrots, or 1 ear of corn

Fruits

½ cup of grapes (about 15 grapes) ====== a light bulb
½ cup of fresh fruit ====== 7 cotton balls
1 medium size fruit ====== a tennis ball or fist
1 cup of cut up fruit ====== a fist
¼ cup of raisins ====== a large egg

Milk, Cheese and Yogurt

1 ½ ounces of cheese ===== a 9-volt battery or 3 dominos
1 ounce of cheese ====== your index and middle fingers
1 cup of ice crème ====== a baseball

Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, and Nuts

2 tablespoon of peanut butter ====== a ping pong ball
1 teaspoon peanut butter ====== a fingertip
1 tablespoon of peanut butter ====== a thumb tip
3 ounces of cooked meat, fish or poultry ====== a deck of cards, or a cassette tape
3ounces grilled/baked fish ====== a checkbook
3 ounces cooked chicken ====== a chicken leg, thigh or breast

Fats, Oils, and Sweets

1 teaspoon of butter or margarine ====== a stamp with the thickness of your thumb tip
2 tablespoon of salad dressing ====== a ping pong ball

Snack Food

1 ounce of nuts or small candies ====== a handful
1 ounce of chips or pretzels ====== 2 handfuls
½ cup of potato chips, crackers or popcorn ====== a man’s handful
1/3 cup of potato chips, crackers or popcorn ====== a woman’s handful