10 Days in a Carry-On. ⇒
10 May 2010, late afternoon
Apparently the trick is to roll up everything.
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10 May 2010, late afternoon
Apparently the trick is to roll up everything.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Someone told me that’s what people in the army do. I’d also like them to clarify what rolling “minimizes wrinkling” means. I must not be rolling correctly.
by martha on May 10 2010, 6:05 pm #
So the obvious physics observation is that the stuff has the same inherent volume, so the difference between “step 5” (the “trick” way presented here) and the “step 6” (the “common” way) is that you’ve just mushed away all the “air” and packed stuff tighter together. But really, does it matter? I mean, you can squish it any which way you pick it in there and get the same result (assuming sufficient squish skills), so is it just that the rolling to remove the wrinkles? (i.e. Squish then pack rather than pack then squish?)
But, I much prefer Mathematics. In fact, this is CS and CO, my two majors together – packing a knapsack is a NP-complete combinatorial optimization problem. So really, all those years of school just tells me that there is no efficient general way of packing a suitcase, so don’t bother with a fancy algorithm and go with a lame approximation algorithm – throw your stuff in a bag and punch it until you can zipper it – you’ll save lots of time and have the same end result. (Modulo wrinkles and a ripped magazine cover).
:-)
by Ryan on May 10 2010, 9:31 pm #
Do you remember going to the HMCS Haida at Ontario Place for a school trip? During the tour they told us that in the navy they rolled up their clothes when packing.
There was also some SNES exhibition in one of those rooms that might be part of Atlantis now. That might have been a different trip. The Super Scope wasn’t very good.
by mk on May 11 2010, 9:35 am #
The SNES thing was at Ontario Place. I don’t remember if it was the same trip or not. We had a Superscope for our SNES. That thing was ridiculous.
by ramanan on May 11 2010, 9:40 am #
holy shit, I just tried this and it’s incredible. It allowed me to reach new heights of overpacking.
and yes that was me spamming your search page trying to find this link.
by Weiguo on June 24 2010, 1:42 am #