sunday

Ten people land on a deserted island. There they find lots of coconuts and a monkey. During their first day they gather coconuts and put them all in a community pile. After working all day they decide to sleep and divide them into ten equal piles the next morning. That night one castaway wakes up hungry and decides to take his share early. After dividing up the coconuts he finds he is one coconut short of ten equal piles. He also notices the monkey holding one more coconut. So he tries to take the monkey’s coconut to have a total evenly divisible by 10. However when he tries to take it the monkey conks him on the head with it and kills him. Later another castaway wakes up hungry and decides to take his share early. On the way to the coconuts he finds the body of the first castaway, which pleases him because he will now be entitled to 1/9 of the total pile. After dividing them up into nine piles he is again one coconut short and tries to take the monkey’s coconut. Again, the monkey conks the man on the head and kills him. One by one each of the remaining castaways goes through the same process, until the 10th person to wake up gets the entire pile for himself.

What is the smallest number of possible coconuts in the pile, not counting the monkeys?

Sunday, August 21, 2005 

The timeless argument. But check out Ayn Rand’s philosophy as presented in Atlas Shrugged:

So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal wlth one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Like all things, stuff is only whatever it is because of your value placed on it.

But I’ve been downloading music like crazy. For the past two weeks, I’ve been sitting at home, bored outta my mind, and downloading music like none other. I’ve grown my collection decently. Well, I finally ran out of good music, music that I wanted, to download. And just on a whim, I decided I’d download Lil’ Jon and the East Side Boyz. Well, it’s free right?

Let me tell you–Lil’ Jon is CRAZY. I swear all the songs begin with either “WHAAAAT” or “OKAAAAAY” and there’s definitely a lot of Lil’ Jon yelling. I can’t help but laugh everytime I hear his song. But there’s some good parts to the cd, amazingly. Chris Rock does a little skit, and they’ve included Dave Chappelle’s “Aww Skeet Skeet” clip from his second season show.

And who’s Young Jeezy? He’s got the #1 album on the Billboard, but I’ve never heard of him. Well, I guess I better to download it now :).

New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Geek chic

Interesting article, but not true. The appropriate term would be Dork Chic, but it’s just a matter of semantics, right?

After all, the “ladies love Geek Chic” like they love Brad Pitt or Orlando Bloom. Uh-hunh, sure. You don’t see everyone drooling over Jon Heder for his good looks, or drooling at all for that matter. “Geeks have charm in their awkwardness.” Yes, geeks are awkward, but so are dorks and nerds, I wouldn’t necessarily consider it charming by any means. “The personality of a geek makes him sexy, partially because he can be pitied.” While I agree that geeks are good-natured people (they’re practically harmless), but do we like geeks because they can be pitied? And what is this stuff about pitying geeks? They’re not *completely* helpless like the starving children in Africa. Who’s pitying Bill Gates? At this point, we’re crossing the line of seeing geeks as adorable to endearing. Well, it gets better.

Apparently, according to Gitesh Pandya, editor of www.boxofficeguru.com, “when people see these characters, they feel good about themselves.” This sounds more like the typical after-school punk bullying little kids to make himself feel bigger and better. Truthfully, after reading this article, it sounded like Osterhout was putting down the geeks. Sure everyone feels better after standing next to a loser, but it’s one thing to truthfully criticize and another to deceivingly praise. Is Hollywood that desperate for an ego boost? Please, pick on someone your own size.

Osterhout has it all wrong. While it makes for good stereotypical humor, the tone of the article completely exploits the weaknesses and fallacies of a perfectly normal humanity. Moreover, I wouldn’t exactly consider the “40-year-old virgin” a geek. It’s misleading and gives a false impression. There’s a clear distinction between geeks and dorks (I suppose it takes one to know one), where geek implies brain power and intellect; dorks don’t need to be smart. As a friend reminded me, “dorks watch star trek, geeks build computers.”

Are you taking notes, Osterhout? Better start brushing up on your Star Trek, pal.

I’m gonna miss you Monday :’(

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