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SE 113 - This is my room, as it would look right when you would walk in the door. I'm by myself in here, but with a big desk, cool couch, lofted bed, lots of decorations, and some good room engineering, I made it about the best room it could be.
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I probably spend most of my time at my desk...much more than on my couch and probably even more than in bed. As you can see, crazy decorations adorn almost every part of my room...posters, caution tape, a flying plane, Saddam Hussein target, satellite dish... who knows what else.
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Upstairs...although there is no staircase, escalator, nor elevator leading to it, I still call this the upstairs. I've got a bed, a phone, bookcase with a clock/radio/initial-wakeup-device, a lamp, fan...it's about as upstairs as you can get.
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"Straight Shoe Parking" is only one of three methods used to organize my shoes near my door. Although it appears to be quite orderly, this method does infringe upon the openness of the door area. This problem, similar to the actual parking of cars, created somewhat of ans inconvenience, and soon the parking plan of all shoes was changed...
"Angled Shoe Parking" was later adopted as the standard for shoe organization. This arrangement allowed three pairs of shoes to still be available for immediate usage, while not invading the door's radial swing-path. But even when all seemed perfect, a flaw was discovered in the new system. Recalling Pythagorean's Theorem, we understand that the squared length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of each of the perpendicular sides. Using this, as well as the definition of sine or cosine, one may note that the 45 degree angle created by the shoes and the wall, as well as the constant length of the shoe (the hypotenuse), therefore creates an imaginary triangle's side, which is perpendicular to the wall, equal to a fraction of the hypotenuse's length, with a ratio of 1 to the square root of 2. Now considering that I wear a size 12 US shoe, the length of the shoe conveniently equates to just a little over 12 inches. Combining this with the trigonometric calculations and numerical analysis that we just completed, we find that the distance of the perpendicular side is approximately eight and a half inches. This distance can be understood to equal the distance that the shoe sticks out (using "Angled Shoe Parking"), or the amount that is blocking that pathway to and from the doorway. In fact, the after instituting Angled Shoe Parking, there was only a 30% decrease in pathway blockage, thus not fully solving the problem that initially prompted an alternate parking plan. But what was the solution? No more shoes? Negative. There had to be shoes, and you know it. In any case, a compromise between shoe availability and maximum door-room-pathification was eventually achieved...
...Parallel Shoe Parking
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Given that this satellite dish is pointed to the northwest, for those of you knowlegable in the subject of orbit mechanics and astrodynamics, you should know that there is a problem here. The geosynchronous satellite that would provide the signal to this dish would be at an altitude of 35,786 km, with an orbital period of 24 hours...and would also have a zero degree of inclination and therefore would be directly above the equator. Because this dish points north, not south, there is no way it could receive a signal...or it might not be able to receive a signal because I found this dish at a trash dump in Rockland, Maine. Actually both are true, but like it really matters...I don't even have a TV.
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