Funny
David Spade and the 1978 Pinto With the Killer Boom Box
This is embarrassing but I had yet another celebrity infested dream. I am not one given to royalty worship but yet I have these dreams where they show up. When they are very vivid and funny I have to share. Here is the latest one:
I'm in a garage admiring a 1978 Ford Pinto. You know one of the last models and it had that one with the garish grillwork. It as in perfect condition and all polished up. The interior was perfect. It was one marvelous Pinto. In walks David Spade:
David starts talking about how he's kept the car all these years since it was new because he doesn't want to let go of his childhood. He goes on to say its a really great car and that it has a killer boom box in it. He pulls out a chrome plated speaker box and shows me.
I'm duly impressed by his nostalgia and launch into how its nostalgic for me as my dead mother drove a Ford Pinto. Of course I comment on how "down to earth he is for a hollywood type".
When we're done talking David's sister meets us in the garage and says "You're driving right ?!" ….like she was excited to be rolling in the Pinto. I was excited too because Dave's sister was cute and we could ride in the back while Dave chauffeured us.
Yes Ford Pinto. You remember it? If you drove it over 70 the windows would roll themselves down.
**As a FootNote: In Brazil they use the word "pinto" as slang for penis. Thus if you own one you are driving a Ford Penis.
Feynman Lectures on Physics PDF
For those of you who enjoy physics this is a must have. Its one of the most fun reads ever. Not so many equations and a WHOLE LOT of understanding. ( Feynman is on my favorite jew list ). For you posers who believe in MMGW read all 3 volumes of the Feynman lectures on physics then come back and talk to me. I still won't believe in MMGW, and you won't either.
When I originally bought my 3 volume set in 1994 they cost 100 USD per book. Now you can get some of the paperback 3 volume sets for a total of 60 USD on Amazon.
Links
Dal Makhani – A Really Good Spicy Black Bean Recipe
If you like black beans you're in for a treat with this one. It has some cinnamon in the recipe that works magic on the flavor.
High-Low Ebay Bidding Scam – Tricking People Who Do not Understand Probability
You have no choice but to study the perfidy of the world if you want to make the world a better place. And I like probability theory too.
I had someone try to purpetrate this on me once and its an interesting mathematical setup. Here is how it goes:
1) Assume you have something listed in AUCTION format on eBay. (As opposed to buy-it-now ). In this format the normal operation is that bidders bid till closing time with the highest bidder winning the auction.
2) Prior to end of auction, usually well in advance of the end of the auction the scammer approaches the seller and says "Do you have a buy it now price? + excuse for wanting B.I.N.P. (B.I.N.P= buy it now price ). He gets you to agree to some price. –at this point if you have agreed and he bids then you end the auction it would be a straight deal. However he does not bid now…..
3) Instead of bidding he waits and bids and lets the auction finish normally. You try emailing the person before the finish and he does not answer. Later he claims his email was out.
4) –If the auction went above the price agreed upon he claims you made an agreement. He asks for that price. In this scenario he gets the item for less than the ending price.
–If the auction does not reach your agreed upon price he says he decided against the agreement and he would like to buy at the auction price. He then gets it for less than the agreed upon price.
Either way he gets to buy the item for less than what he would have otherwise.
This is only a straight deal if the auction is ended at the time of agreement –OR– he answers his emails and agrees to pay the agreed upon price even if its higher than the ending bidding price.
More than anything I find this amusing as its the lengths to which some operators will go. A study in human nature it depends on the seller being too timid or courteous to speak up for themselves.
…………….Isn't that similar to alot of things in our country? In most things where people are taken advantage off the processes ultimate ongoing success requires the courteous public to grin and bear it. I'm thinking of politics here. When the politicians say "We gotta do it for the chilrun" you should be thinking he's depending on me being concerned about how I look to other people.
We need to expose this process at every turn. Till its such commonplace knowledge that this element of the scam is rendered nonfunctional.
And how did I deal with this guy?
I told him at first that he had to pay the higher bid price because he had "the email outage" and did not act as agreed upon. Then I realized I don't want to deal with this type of person. You can only lose if you do. Someway or somehow they'll make it cost you. Whether its this deal or a subsequent one it will end up biting you. I therefore wrote him and said " I'm terribly sorry but my rotweiler Thor got into my ebay storage room and chewed up the item to bits. My apologies!!
His FeedBack Profile – mrgasbbq40 like all scammers the profile is now gone. Ebay ends up cancelling eventually.
An Entropic View of Gravity-The Universe as One Big Diffusion Equation
The universe seen as one big diffusion equation. As you read the power point presentation consider that maybe a correction to Schrodingers equation may somehow incorporate gravity into its perview. The time independent Schrodinger doesn't handle maximizing time rate of entropy but it does spatial entropy.
Dermatome Chart Map of Humans Makes more Sense when Human viewed on all Fours
Notice how the dermatome map of human nerves makes more sense when the human model is positioned on all fours. This should tell you something about our evolutionary ancestors.
Fun
The Dream Team Prayer
Strive to be your Best No Matter How funny it turns out Especially if you are a comedian. A little thing like a post-it note can go by unnoticed very easily. It's easy to over look. Just another another flake of snow in a flurry of paper that swirls all 'round us in this way we live. But then there is the Dream Team Prayer. I found in on this post-it note while working at a Phoenix area satellite modem company. It was originally posted on a satellite modem or RF module after being repaired. This post-it note is full of the aspirations of survival. How else could making an electronic module function as engineering intended it to induce such euphoria as this note implicates? He was obviously in a fight to the death. With so many compromises in life, survival and hope are the biggest parts of the battle. And so I've kept this note in my desk for these years and its come to appear to me as a prayer. The dream team prayer yields its effect through the hilarious use of language which very effectively counterpoints the sheer relief of getting past yet another snag. ( Please note: I'm sure this man speaks English far better than I'll ever speak his language…whatever it is )
Please note the key magic phrase of the note: "Sucks one" And now a moment of silence and laughter:
The Dream Team Prayer : as originally posted on some electronic module undergoing repair after initial manufacture
This one is done now: Mr. Larry Harley or Michael. Especially Mr Larry that have been known about what going on with this board. This board is a sucks one that we never had seen before, but now by Larry and myself tried to do togethers very very hards that make this job done very very well. Larry Please ! accept my appreciation for your held me in the past, and in the present, to the future. Larry I hope we're working as a Special team or as a Dream team from now to the future. So now please Send this shit to the Q.A. ( quality assurance ) right away and I wish we don't have to have to see any shit like this no more. Thanks SC 12/16/96 ( Sameth Chap)
My Fortune,Sorry Duplex Switch On
 I can not stand the idea of programming all day again so I got up and found some left over fortune cookies.
Mmmm….I just don't know how someone who does not even know me can be so accurate. My duplex switch WAS on. They are my lotto numbers! Don't even THINK of playing them.