title = counting problem

Sep 17th, 2009

dear engineers:

without using a calculator, please estimate how many fist-size rocks it would take to fill Lake Baikal, located in Russian Siberia. show your work.

thank you.

ps: you can use Wikipedia to research stuff for this one.

title = not Google

Sep 15th, 2009

dear engineers:

what is the better search engine – Excite or Alta Vista?

thank you.

title = fun with arithmetic

Sep 14th, 2009

dear engineers:

which is more fun – multiplication or division?

thank you.

title = a new computer

Sep 13th, 2009

dear engineers:

i was buying soup today and the menu said the tomato bisque was organic. i’d like to purchase or have someone build an organic computer. is this possible?

thank you.

title = ingredients

Sep 12th, 2009

dear engineers:

ponder over this and get back to me at your convenience – what are the ingredients in a can of Whoop-Ass™

thank you.

title = query to start them all

Sep 11th, 2009

dear engineers:

how much memory do you think the human brain holds? in gigabytes? even terabytes?

depending on that figure, how much would a brain with a USB connection retail for at Best Buy?

thank you.