I mean, I guess I COULD have went trick-or-treating or have gone to the Homecoming dance with friends, but with the upcoming deadlines on a couple of papers, I figured it was better to (try to) start/finish them before I had to stay up on Sunday night/Monday morning. Anyway...
I was looking over a few paperback books for proof for one of those papers. I later put it down in order to do a little physics homework, placing my calculator on it. When I remembered to do my paper again, I lifted one side of the book in order to let the calculator off without me having to put the effort into lifting the calculator up and off. It slid off the book, and I was able to continue with my paper. Right now, the paper (actually both aren't yet, but I have time!) is still not done, and I needed to think of a blog topic, so my awesome calculator gets to be in the spotlight!
The book is smooth in appearance, but the calculator has those little rubber thingies to keep it in place, or to keep the plastic from slamming on the table every time I put it down. Those little pieces created a little higher static friction coefficient than there would have been. Therefore, I had to pick up the book's side a little higher to get the calc off with the force of weight, which wasn't fun 'cuz once I lifted it up enough, the calc went on its side and slammed on the plasticness -_-' (and seeing as I used it for the blog, I had to reinact it. sorry, calcy!). There was still another factor to it not moving: the slightly trashed cover of my book. It's not THAT bad, but it added a little more bends that increased the static friction as well. My poor stuff never make it a week before they start getting bust up like mad.
Boo for static friction sometimes...
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