{"id":382,"date":"2005-10-27T07:06:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2005-10-27T07:13:37","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:13:37","slug":"been-seated-at-a-wobbly-table-dont-shim-it-with-your-napkin-rotate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2005\/10\/been-seated-at-a-wobbly-table-dont-shim-it-with-your-napkin-rotate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Been seated at a wobbly table? Don&#8217;t shim it with your napkin, rotate it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A physicist at CERN in Geneva has come up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/xxx.arxiv.org\/abs\/math-ph\/0510065\">mathematical proof<\/a> that shows that you can achieve a stable position <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2005\/051024\/full\/051024-3.html\">simply by rotating the table<\/a>.  Of course, sometimes it isn&#8217;t possible or desirable to rotate it, but know that it can be done<\/p>\n<p>[hat tip &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/10\/27\/math_proves_you_can_.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A physicist at CERN in Geneva has come up with a mathematical proof that shows that you can achieve a stable position simply by rotating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-6a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}