A Wish for a Special Child....

RIDE said:

and the best part was when my wife sent me a text message asking "Ummmm, who is 'iKitten' and why is she sending you a letter " lol

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FANTASTIC!!

Thank you Ryan13!!!!!!

Methogre. Lol!!!!!

Psst. Hey. Yeah you. Wanna buy an equation? Ah, it's okay. It's just a polynomial, but uh, I got some diffies if you want. Oh, these are good. Makes you see donuts and coffee cups as the same thing, but you gotta be really careful with these. If you take too many, you'll turn into a topologist.

i cant wait until the raffle!
The doctor said I may be able to take john to Disney that weekend, so hes going to have a dream day!

Awesome we got mail!! to RIDE

Great News The Donor of the Xbox sent me tracking #s Johns XBOX is on the way!

mathogre said:

Psst. Hey. Yeah you. Wanna buy an equation? Ah, it's okay. It's just a polynomial, but uh, I got some diffies if you want. Oh, these are good. Makes you see donuts and coffee cups as the same thing, but you gotta be really careful with these. If you take too many, you'll turn into a topologist.

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Ha!

I just laughed so hard

The latest version of the s/w, v10, is here:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=501377#post501377

RIDE said:

***It was really cool getting the mail today... A cool card from Math, I realized why rman goes by rman.... and the best part was when my wife sent me a text message asking "Ummmm, who is 'iKitten' and why is she sending you a letter " lol

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More importantly why is she sending you money?

LOL ~ I so totally didn't think of what that might look like!!!

mathogre said:

The latest version of the s/w, v10, is here:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=501377#post501377

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Thats Awesome Math....

Here is an UPDATE on the John Wish Day.......

Well I went to EB Games and Purchased 3 used games for Johns XBOX (I got a great deal), I also have a friend of mine who said he would give him his Guitar Hero 2 game with the guitar which is REALLY cool, I think he has a treasure trove awaiting him.... I'm just really excited that we accomplished so much, and I cant wait for the raffle day!

And to make everything even better, His doctor says he is doing fantastic his treatment is working and he definitely sees him beginning school on the next school year which has him pumped.... Looks like hes almost out of the woods....

Thanks again

Great news!

That's great macjuicy. So when is the big day for his surprise?

Should we make him a card?

A reminder, we're having the raffle in a week.

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=498493&postcount=162

At the moment I believe we still have ONE REMAINING TICKET. Yes, this is all about helping a kid, but you know, the Grand Prize is an iPod touch. ^_^ A week ago I looked at one at the Apple Store, and also played with one of the new nanos. The iPod touch is Officially Very Nice. (Actually, the nanos are pretty nice too.)

Now for some business.

I'm still doing the drawing. Please feel free to go to the software thread and play with the code. Yes, it's command line s/w, but it's really simple and - hopefully - readable. Instructions are there for all to read, along with some additional instructions from RIDE. If you don't follow something, feel free to ask!

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79394

To further simplify things, I've said in the past that the random number seed would be chosen on the morning of the drawing. Given we've had the date for awhile, the seed will be the Apple closing stock price for October 19, 2007. It can be viewed on the iPhone or on web sites 20 or so minutes after the close of the stock exchange. The stock code for Apple is AAPL.

If you're not deep into geekdom or random number generators, computers typically use pseudo random number generators for various things, functions that generate numbers that appear random. Because they're not truly random, they are "seeded" with something, often computer system time. You can let the computer use whatever it will for a seed, or you can specify a seed. If you run a program with a fixed random number seed, you will typically get the same results every time. Change the seed and get different results.

For this raffle, we'll seed it with something that no one can know in advance. In this case, it's the Apple closing stock price on the day of the raffle. From that, winners will be chosen. A one penny difference can result in a completely different set of winners.

For purposes of verification, the stock price will be considered valid only if there is a match between the price shown on the iPhone and on the Charles Schwab website. A mismatch of even one penny is enough to consider the random seed invalid as a one penny change can greatly change the random number results. If there's a mismatch between what the iPhone shows and what Schwab reports well after the market closes, we'll deal with it appropriately at that time.

http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab...d=P-1043769&lvl1=non_navigable&lvl2=marketing (enter AAPL)
http://www.schwab.com/

At the moment (around 1:30AM, Oct. 12 on the US east coast), the iPhone shows a closing price for the 11th of $162.23, as does the Charles Schwab web site. (Google, GOOG, shows a price of $622.00 from both sources. ?!!!!!!!!) Schwab, according to their website, handles $1.4 trillion in client assets (~10% of the annual US GNP) as of Aug. 2007. They're probably a reliable verification site. Funny, they're in San Francisco, not far from Cupertino.

DISCLOSURE: I am in the drawing for 4 tickets. It's no secret. I want everyone to have a completely fair chance to win, including me. I don't need an iPod touch. I have a 1st gen 512M shuffle, a 2nd gen 2G nano, and a 4G iPhone. Still, I'd like to win. The drawing is set up to be fair to all. Anyone with one ticket has a chance to win either prize. Anyone with two or more tickets has a chance to win both prizes. My interest is in helping John. I know what it's like having a kid who might not be around the next day. Kid, cousin, spouse, doesn't much matter. I like the idea of putting a smile on a kid's face when it's hard to find a reason to smile. SO - play with the software, scrutinize the procedure, and if you see anything that doesn't look right or fair, post it or PM macjuicy23, RIDE, or me.

Now let's see that last ticket go, and GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!!!

mathogre said:

Now let's see that last ticket go

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ill take it. how much is it and who do i pay?

10 bucks and pay it to ride (see further back in this thread for details).

Since all the tickets have been sold, how about we hold the raffle as soon as Ride has all the moolah?

Aptmunich said:

10 bucks and pay it to ride (see further back in this thread for details).

Since all the tickets have been sold, how about we hold the raffle as soon as Ride has all the moolah?

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Lets stick to the raffle date, i dont think RIDE has yet to collect most of the Money... he is receiving alot of the Money Via Snail Mail so lets see how it goes.

bobtomay said:

That's great macjuicy. So when is the big day for his surprise?

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Saturday 20th I cant wait we have a little party set up here as a surprise... Im making it like a birthday party (but of course not his bday LOL)

Hi!

I've set up a dry run to test both the drawing procedure and software. It can be found here:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=504161#post504161

The drawing is this coming Friday, and I want to ensure everything goes well with it. Please try it and see if it works as expected. If it does, then we're fine! If not, then we have time to resolve it before Friday.

Thanks!!!!!!

know that it isn't a big deal, but why was this unstickied?