Hofstadter's Law

Have you ever read about Hofstadter's Law?
If not, it's about time you do. It's true.

Probability and Coincidence

A man who travels a lot was concerned with the possibility of a bomb on his plane. He determined the probability of this, found it to be low but not low enough for him, so now he always travels with a bomb in his suitcase. He reasons that the probability of two bombs being on board is infinitesimal.
-John Allen Paulos in Innumeracy

Sacrifice

I just finished watching the movie "The Weather Man". I started watching it at 11:20pm and finished it at 1:02 am.
This line, in my opinion, is one of the truest statements you'll ever find in a movie.

Robert Spritzel, played by Sir Michael Caine, said to his son David:
Sacrifice is... To get anything of value, you have to sacrifice. Do you know that the hardest thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life.

This post is for you, you know who you are.

Home

If somebody relocates when he's 25 years old to a different part of the world.
If this somebody lives there till he's 50.
Which part of the world is home to somebody? One..., both..., or neither...?

Halloween 2006 aka Borat in Seattle

Time for a less serious, less important, and a more personal post after the couple past ones.

So last year I took a back seat and watched Halloween in the US for the first time. This year I jumped right in.

First of all, if you don't know who Borat is, you need a primer. You will also probably love the trailer.

So, for this Halloween I was Borat! And even though the movie hasn't come out yet, the character is insanely popular. Going out on Friday in the costume was pretty amazing, people are really nice on Halloween. Everybody dressed up in the most creative customes, complementing you on yours. In Borat's case people were taking pictures, yelling lines from the movie. It was truly a weekend of living like a movie star :)

Such a post would, of course, not be complete without photos, so I present you with a few.

Huh?

I don't think I'll ever understand how a person, any person, think like this, assuming there was thinking involved.
I will never understand what can make a person become like that either.

Sex maniacs, are these real?

If you live in Egypt please help me out here, is this real?
http://malek-x.net/node/268

If you're a girl who lives in Egypt, please be careful. Try to avoid the busy spots and downtown at night. Better safe than sorry.

I don't know what to say, it's a new low.