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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Top Ten Lists</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY bgcolor="FFFFFF"><center><center><font size=+4>Erich's Top Ten Lists</font></center><p><table><tr><td><table bgcolor=FFFFCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Sports and How to Improve Them</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Basketball - play with 2 balls at once</li><li>Football - eliminate "illegal formations"</li><li>Soccer - make the goals 4 feet wider</li><li>Golf - blindfold the golfers</li><li>Baseball - eliminate "infield fly" rule</li><li>Auto Racing - widen track to make passing easier</li><li>Hockey - remove "offsides" rule</li><li>Bowling - play with 15 pins instead of 10</li><li>Tennis - eliminate "tiebreakers"</li><li>Track and Field - institute "obstacle course" in decathalon</li>
</ul></tr></table><td> <td><table bgcolor=FFCCCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Stupidest Olympic Events</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>synchronized swimming</li><li>equestrian events</li><li>rhythmic gymnastics</li><li>water polo</li><li>ping pong</li><li>sailing</li><li>wheelchair racing</li><li>hammer throw</li><li>racewalking</li><li>synchronized diving</li></ul></tr></table><td> <td><table bgcolor=CCCCCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 50's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley & His Comets)</li>
<li>Sixteen Tons (Tennessee Ernie Ford)</li>
<li>Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley)</li>
<li>Teddy Bear (Elvis Presley)</li>
<li>That'll Be The Day (The Crickets)</li>
<li>Wake Up Little Susie (The Everly Brothers)</li>
<li>Witch Doctor (David Seville)</li>
<li>Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin)</li>
<li>Walkin' After Midnight (Patsy Cline)</li>
<li>La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)</li>
</ul></tr></table></td></tr></table><br><table><tr><td><table bgcolor=FFCCFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 60's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)</li><li>Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters)</li><li>Chapel of Love (The Dixie Cups)</li><li>If You Want to Be Happy (Jimmy Soul)</li>
<li>In My Room (Beach Boys)</li>
<li>Rocky Raccoon (Beatles)</li>
<li>I'm Henry the VIII I Am (Herman's Hermits)</li>
<li>Walk Away Renee (Left Banke)</li>
<li>Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?<br>(Lovin' Spoonful)</li>
<li>Venus (Shocking Blue)</li>
</ul></tr></table><td> <td><table bgcolor=CCFFFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 70's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)</li><li>Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones)</li><li>Dust in the Wind (Kansas)</li><li>Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)</li><li>Candle in the Wind (Elton John)</li><li>Life's Been Good (Joe Walsh)</li>
<li>Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)</li>
<li>I'm a Train (Albert Hammond)</li>
<li>Brandy (Looking Glass)</li>
<li>At Seventeen (Janis Ian)</li></ul></tr></table><td> <td><table bgcolor=FFCC99 border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 80's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Billy Joel)</li><li>Dirty Laundry (Don Henley)</li><li>Subdivisions (Rush)</li><li>Land of Confusion (Genesis)</li><li>Same Old Lang Syne (Dan Fogelberg)</li><li>Allentown (Billy Joel)</li><li>Don't Worry, Be Happy (Bobby McFerrin)</li><li>Africa (Toto)</li><li>Man in the Mirror (Michael Jackson)</li><li>What's Love Got to do With It? (Tina Turner)</li></ul></tr></table></td></tr></table><br>
<table><tr><td><table bgcolor=CCFFCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 90's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Lost in the Moment (Edie Brickell)</li>
<li>A Hundred Lovers (Timbuk 3)</li>
<li>Meet Virginia (Train)</li>
<li>That Girl in the Corner (Lyle Lovett)</li>
<li>True Companion (Marc Cohn)</li>
<li>Indiana (Rockapella)</li>
<li>Sam's Town (Kevin Welch)</li>
<li>Baseball Song (Kenny Rogers)</li>
<li>Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls)</li>
<li>More Than Words (Extreme)</li>
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<table bgcolor=FFFFCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 00's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Lose Yourself (Eminem)</li>
<li>Give Me Just One Night (98 Degrees)</li>
<li>Forever And For Always (Shania Twain)</li>
<li>Your Body Is A Wonderland (John Mayer) </li>
<li>Picture (Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow)</li>
<li>100 Years (Five For Fighting)</li>
<li>White Flag (Dido)</li>
<li>Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)</li>
<li>Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)</li>
<li>When You're Falling (Afro Celt Sound System)</li>
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<table bgcolor=CCCCFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Songs of the 10's</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Roar (Katy Perry)</li>
<li>Happy (Pharrell Williams)</li>
<li>All About That Bass (Meghan Trainor)</li>
<li>Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5)</li>
<li>Follow Your Arrow (Kacey Musgraves)</li>
<li>Brave (Sara Bareilles)</li>
<li>My Silver Lining (First Aid Kid)</li>
<li>Word Crimes ("Weird Al" Yankovic)</li>
<li>Jazz Fever (Rachel Bloom)</li>
<li>The Fox (Ylvis)</li>
</ul></tr></table></td></tr></table><br><table><tr><td><table bgcolor=CCCCCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Mathematicians That I Know Well Whom I've Never Met</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Neil Sloane - maintains the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences</li><li>Nick Baxter - organizes the U. S. Puzzle Championship</li><li>Ed Pegg - runs mathpuzzle.com</li><li>Joseph DeVincentis, Trevor Green, Brendan Owen, and Maurizio Morandi - frequent contributors to Math Magic</li><li>Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine, David Eppstein, and Greg Fredrickson - wrote a paper with them</li><li>Mike Keith - wrote a paper with him</li><li>Berend Jan van der Zwaag - wrote a paper with him</li><li>Robert Pratt - wrote a paper with him that was never published</li><li>George Sicherman - worked on many tiling problems</li><li>Martin Gardner - my hero</li></ul></tr></table><p><td> <td><table bgcolor=FFCCFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Nicknames</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>E-rich</li><li>Enrique</li><li>Thud</li><li>Friedwoman</li><li>Erk</li><li>EJF</li><li>Friedmanski</li><li>E</li><li>Dudley</li><li>Kinky</li></ul></tr></table></table><br>
<table><tr><td><table bgcolor=FFCC99 border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 People Who Taught Me Something</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Henry Friedman, who taught me that few decisions are permanent.</li><li>Mr. Watson, who taught me that a teacher does best by being himself.</li><li>Kurt Friedman, who taught me to make the best of a bad situation.</li><li>Liz Tanner, who taught me when to be selfish and when not to be.</li><li>Barbara Graber, who taught me that my friends are more important than my work.</li><li>Kendyl Linn, who taught me that sex is a good thing.</li><li>Kelly Crone, who taught me that you can't please everyone, and you shouldn't bother trying.</li><li>Margie Hale, who taught me how to love.</li><li>Lynn Hatfield, who taught me not to use my childhood as an excuse.</li><li>Barbara Stone, who taught me to enjoy attention, but not be attached to it.</li></ul></tr></table><td> <td><table bgcolor=CCFFFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Unusual Things I've Done</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Lived in Illinois for 3 days</li><li>Got my Ph.D. in 4 years</li><li>Sky dived</li><li>Dressed up as a woman (3 times!)</li><li>Slept on the 90th floor of a building</li><li>Had something named after me</li><li>Attended an all-male college</li><li>Blew up a microwave oven</li><li>Paid for my own college expenses</li><li>Visited my mother in a mental institution</li>
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</td></tr></table><br><table><tr><td><table bgcolor=CCFFCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Math Riddles</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Q: Why did the mathematician name his dog "Cauchy"?<br>A: Because he left a residue at every pole.<br> </li><li>Q: What's sado-masochism?<br>A: The standard deviation of the mean.<br> </li><li>Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant and a grape?<br>A: I dunno, but its magnitude is Elephant, grape, sin theta.<br> </li><li>Q: What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with a grape?<br>A: You can't. A mountain climber is a scaler.<br> </li><li>Q: What do farmers study in trigonometry?<br>A: Swine and cow-swine.<br> </li><li>Q: What's the contour integral around Western Europe?<br>A: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe.<br> </li><li>Q: How many numerical analysts does it take to screw in a light bulb?<br>A: 0.9973 after the first three iterations.<br> </li><li>Q: How many statisticians does it take to change a lightbulb?<br>A: Two plus or minus three.<br> </li><li>Q: How many applied mathematicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?<br>A: One, who gives it to two statisticians, thereby reducing it to an earlier riddle.<br> </li><li>Q: How many topologists does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: It really doesn't matter, since they'd rather knot.</li></ul></tr></table><td> <td><table><tr><td><table bgcolor=FFCCCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Things I'd Most Like To Know</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>How the universe was created</li><li>Who really killed JFK</li><li>How long the human race will survive</li><li>Whether 240 unit squares will fit inside a square of side 15.999</li><li>When my life will end</li><li>Whether it's possible to travel faster than light</li><li>What the best chess strategy is</li><li>Why my life has been so lucky so far</li><li>Whether Jesus was right-handed</li><li>How many people actually read these lists</li></ul></tr></table></tr><tr><td> </tr><tr><td><table bgcolor=CCCCFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Things I Do or Mention To Show Off</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Solve the Rubik's Cube in 90 seconds</li><li>Recite 50 digits of π</li><li>Juggle</li><li>Reveal my Erdos number</li><li>Do my favorite card trick</li><li>Build tall structures with playing cards</li><li>Disclose math contest victories</li><li>Recite the periodic table</li><li>Mention my World Championship puzzles</li><li>Discuss my puzzle books</li></ul></tr></table></td></tr></table>
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<table><tr><td><table bgcolor=CCCCCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Books</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)</li><li>Foundation (Isaac Asimov)</li><li>Millennium (John Varley)</li><li>The Hollow Man (Dan Simmons)</li><li>Maus (Art Spiegelman)</li><li>Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)</li><li>Replay (Ken Grimwood)</li><li>Winning Ways (Berlekamp, Conway, Guy)</li><li>The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (Sloane, Plouffe)</li><li>Inversions (Scott Kim)</li></ul></tr></table><td> <td><table bgcolor=FFCC99 border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Authors</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Martin Gardner</li><li>John Varley</li><li>Orson Scott Card</li><li>Douglas Hofstadter</li><li>Sheri Tepper</li><li>Greg Bear</li><li>Stephen Jay Gould</li><li>Bill Bryson</li><li>David Brin</li><li>Kurt Vonnegut</li></ul></tr></table>
<td> <td><table bgcolor=FFFFCC border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Things I Did Much<br>Later Than Most People</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>had sex (age 20)</li><li>bought a car (age 29)</li><li>went to a concert (age 30)</li><li>bought a house (age 37)</li><li>got a speeding ticket (age 38)</li><li>bought a television (age 40)</li><li>bought a computer (age 41)</li><li>attended a pro sports game (age 47)</li><li>bought a cell phone (age ?)</li><li>left the United States (age ?)</li></ul></tr></table></td></tr></table><p>
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<table bgcolor=FFCCFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Movies</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Groundhog Day</li><li>The Shawshank Redemption</li><li>North By Northwest</li><li>Raiders of the Lost Ark</li><li>Sleeper</li><li>When Harry Met Sally</li><li>Dead Poets Society</li><li>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan</li><li>Airplane</li><li>Miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street</li></ul></tr></table>
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<table bgcolor=CCCCFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Favorite Games</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>chess</li><li>poker</li><li>go</li><li>backgammon</li><li>bridge</li><li>mah jongg</li><li>bughouse</li><li>hearthstone</li><li>scrabble</li><li>slither</li></ul></tr></table>
<td> <td><table bgcolor=CCFFFF border=3 cellpadding=5><tr align=center><td><font size=+2><b>10 Goals of Mine</b></font><tr><td align=left><ul><li>Find love <img src="logos/check.gif"> (1987)</li><li>Earn a Ph.D. <img src="logos/check.gif"> (1991)</li><li>Write a computer game <img src="logos/check.gif"> (1995)</li><li>Get tenure <img src="logos/check.gif"> (1998)</li><li>Have something named after me <img src="logos/check.gif"> (1998)</li><li>Publish puzzles <img src="logos/check.gif"> (1999)</li><li>Sky dive <img src="logos/check.gif"> (2005)</li><li>Retire <img src="logos/check.gif"> (2018)</li><li>Learn to ride a unicycle (still might happen) </li><li>Learn to play guitar or piano (running out of time...)</li></ul></tr></table></td></tr></table><br>
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