Bad/Worse Words

Let us define a bad/worse version of a word:



(Let's further assume that E contains English phrases.)


Take for example the word "monkey " in E,
"monkey business" is a bad version of "monkey."

Perhaps take "show ".

In short, when money gets involved, things get messed up.

Itching for a Click

Bloggers must be active contributors of content to the wide world of the world wide web in this era of "knowledge revolution" (Newsweek) but it just happened that I was not very serendipitous (and thus unable add new content).

Anyway, hope someone would find this photo nice.

Inconsistence

When one's mind lies in a different dimension from one's body, and when positive suggestions from the mind are incapable of creating actions, things one desires remain imaginary portraits of ideals. They will never materialize. It's a man's task to recreate himself all the time while learning from his mistakes--and from others'. And in the process of recreation, consistence is important and essential. Behavior is changed not only by will but by time. Positive change is not measured by progress per long periods of time but by progress per microsecond or by genuine efforts per day. Persistence turns a man's will into force that puts things in motion.

Motivation is a sudden and overwhelmingly strong force that activates the mind and makes the mind generate creative thoughts that appear like revolutionary ideas. It never stays for long. Putting the goal into heart is the force that maintains motion. Motivation may move progress miles from the beginning but it never promotes progress to completion.

What the mind thinks, the body resists to do. The body must learn that the mind is above it and that whatever the mind wants the body to do, it must at all cost follow.

The body is a complex system of input and output; the mind is a complex system of thoughts and a huge network of concepts. That where the body resides is the physical world where the value of an entity is measured mostly by its tangibility. On the other hand, residence is only a concept that exists in the mind--the residence of the mind does not exist.

Mr. Smarty Pants Did Not Take a Class in Philosophy

This has been around the web for a long time now--maybe longer than I think.

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term.

The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."


THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

I don't exactly agree with the student getting an 'A.' Here's why:

We have here the statement:
It will be a cold day in Hell before I[Teresa] sleep with you[The Guy].

Let
C = it's a cold day in hell
S = Teresa sleeps with The Guy

So the argument would be:

C -> S	If it's cold in hell, Teresa sleeps with The Guy
S	Teresa slept with The Guy
:. C	It's cold in hell

This one, if I remember correctly, is the formal fallacy of affirming the consequent. It is not necessary that it's cold in hell only because Teresa slept with The Guy, therefore making his argument invalid. <too dumbass comment>