20081209
Smart is the new sexy
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait...
The earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!
BANG!!
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You will never walk alone!
shouted...'Look at that dead bird!' Someone looked up at the sky and
said...'where???'*
**They Walk among us!!*
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While looking at a house, my brother asked the estate agent which direction
was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every
morning. She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?' When my brother
explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook
her head and said, 'Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff.' *
**They Walk Among Us!!*
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My colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria, when we overheard
one of the administrative assistants talking about the sunburn she got on
her weekend drive to the beach. She drove down in a convertible, but 'didn't
think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving'.*
**They Walk Among Us!!!!*
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I told the girl at the steakhouse register that I wanted the half kilogram
sirloin. She informed me they only had an 500g sirloin. Not wanting to
make a scene, I told her I would take the 500g steak instead of the
half-kgr.*
**They walk among us! *
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My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car it's designed to cut through a
seat belt if she gets trapped She keeps it in the boot...*
**They Walk Among Us!!!!!*
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My friends and I were on a Lager run and noticed that the cases were
discounted 10%. Since it was a big party, we bought 2 cases. The cashier
multiplied 2 times 10% and gave us a 20% discount.... *
**They Walk Among Us!!!!!!*
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I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman with a nose ring
attached to an earring by a chain. My friend said, 'Wouldn't the chain rip
out every time she turned her head?' I had to explain that a person's nose
and ear remain the same distance apart no matter which way the head is
turned...*
**They Walk Among Us!!!!!!! *
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I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to the
lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up.
She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional
and I was in good hands. 'Now,' she asked me, 'Has your plane arrived
yet?'...*
**They Walk Among Us!!!!!!!!*
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While working at a pizza parlour I observed a man ordering a small pizza to
go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut
into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time before responding.
'Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6
pieces.*
**Yep, They Walk Among Us, too.!!!!!!!!*
*Sadly, not only do they walk among us, they also reproduce!!!!*
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This is what i call dancing!
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dub lew tea eff!!
Datuk Seri Dr Chua contributed too lmao
I'm looking forward to visiting those horny hangouts that i didnt know about;)
Associate Professor Roger Reeves...
Professor Reeves has been successfully looking at the properties of indium nitride and zinc-oxide that have the potential to significantly improve the efficiency of optoelectronic devices.
“Silicon solar cells are used to convert sunlight into electricity but can only achieve a maximum efficiency of around 35 per cent because they treat all wavelengths of sunlight equally – the high energy blue sunlight is treated the same as the lower energy red light. By being cleverer about the way the solar cell is constructed it becomes possible to get close to 100 per cent efficiency – but that requires the development of new semiconductor materials.”
“To see why this may be important we only need to look at the transformation of traffic lights. Five years ago a green traffic light consisted of a white light behind a green piece of glass. Most of the energy of the lamp was lost. Today we see traffic lights made of an array of green or yellow or red light-emitting diodes (LEDs). These LEDs are designed to emit light of only the colour wanted and thus there is very little energy wasted.”
http://www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2007/071109a.shtml
...and Dr David Wiltshire
“The first models were based on a very simple approximation where the universe is uniformly smooth and featureless, evolving the same way in all directions. Looking at the huge numbers of observations such as supernovae distances, cosmic microwave background radiation fluctuations and galaxy clustering statistics, and thinking about the many anomalies standard dark energy does not solve, I thought we had to be much more careful in the way we interpret the observations,” Dr Wiltshire said.
He said that the present universe was very lumpy and that galaxies were not uniformly distributed with huge voids hundreds of millions of light-years across.
Long before galaxies formed, matter was smoothly distributed and clock rates were the same everywhere. Now that it was “lumpy”, it was necessary to account for where the observer was when calibrating cosmic clocks.
A common analogy is that space curves around a massive object - just as a rubber sheet on a trampoline will stretch around a heavy cannon ball - and time slows down there.
“The flat edge of the rubber sheet is the reference point for our clocks. It is only the space beyond this flat edge that is expanding. Clock rates and the curvature of space can both vary gradually as you move across an expanding void.”
And, since mass slows down time, the clocks of observers in voids, where most of the empty space in the universe is, will appear to be ticking faster than the clocks of observers in galaxies.
It was this last feature, he said, that explained why dark energy was unnecessary.http://www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2008/080125c.shtml
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How do u Like my new no. 565?
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Still ranked No. 1, Henin retires while on top at age 25
"I had reached my limits, and I feel strong and relieved that I could take this decision," she said. "There are plenty of things that I can do. There are no regrets. I did everything I had to do in tennis."
"I won Roland Garros four times, three times in a row. I don't have to live that moment again. I know how it was."
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Stupid sodium atoms
"Oh my gawd, I think I've lost an electron!!"
"Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom.
"Yes," replies the first sodium atom,"I'm positive."
lol
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How Things Even Out
Things tend to even out. Religion, some people say, has caused wars and fighting. Yes, but it’s also boring to sit through a church service, so it evens out. One moment you’re depressed because your doctor tells you that you have alcoholism. But then you cheer up when you go home and find a hidden bottle of vodka you had forgotten about.
Things are evening out all the time, if you take time to notice, like I do. Let’s say you want a big cupcake, with lots of icing, so you go buy one and eat it. But then you realize, I don’t have the cupcake anymore. Or maybe you take a bite of salsa that’s labelled “HOT,” and it doesn’t seem that hot, but then about a second later it seems really hot.
You might hear that some guy you know is having a party, so you call him up, but he says there’s no party. But then you call back, using a different voice, and suddenly there is a party.
One day, you ask people to take a look at a skin rash you have. Then, a few days later, you’re looking at their rashes. You send someone a death threat and then, mysteriously, the police come to your house and threaten you.
Maybe you find a nice flat pebble on a riverbank, and when you pick it up and throw it it skips across the water several times. But then the next pebble you can’t even pry loose because, what is this, glue mud? You notice an ant drifting away on a leaf in the water. Then you look up to see your aunt drifting away in a rowboat.
Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Long ago, an asteroid hit our planet and killed our dinosaurs. But, in the future, maybe we’ll go to another planet and kill their dinosaurs.
Even in the afterlife things probably even out, although I can’t imagine how.
Still don’t believe that things even out? Try this simple test: flip a coin, over and over again, calling out “Heads!” or “Tails!” after each flip. Half the time people will ask you to please stop.
Once you realize that things even out, it’s like a light being turned on in your head, then being turned off, then being turned to “dim.”
Probably the perfect example of things evening out happened to me just last month. I was walking to the post office to mail a death threat. It was a beautiful day. I was happily singing away in my super-loud singing voice. I didn’t step on any chewing gum, like I usually do, and when I threw my gum down it didn’t stick to my fingertips. As I rounded the corner, there was a bum begging for change. I was feeling pretty good, so I gave him a five-dollar bill. At first I tried to make him do a little dance for the five dollars, but he wouldn’t do it, so I gave him the five dollars anyway.
Not long after that, I was reading the paper, and there was a picture of the bum. He had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry! He had a little bigger nose and straighter teeth, but I’m pretty sure it was him. So, my five dollars had made him change his ways and become a chemistry guy.
A few days later, I was walking by the corner again, and there was the bum, back begging. So, things had evened out. He had gotten the Nobel Prize, but now he was a bum again. I asked him for the five dollars back, but he started saying weird stuff that I guess was chemistry formulas or something.
I told my friend Don the story, but he said it wasn’t an example of things evening out so much as just a stupid story. That’s interesting, Don, because you saying that evens out what I said to your mother that time.
I have a lot of stories about things evening out, but I think the one about the Nobel Prize-winning bum is the best. I’d say it would take about three of my other stories to even out that one. ♦
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see the difference you can make
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The Happy isles of Oceania
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Irish Pub Sausage
Shamus and Murphy fancied a pint or two but didn't have a lot of money. Between them, they could only raise the staggering sum of one Euro.
Murphy said 'Hang on, I have an idea.'
He went next door to the butcher's shop and came out with one large sausage.
Shamus said 'Are you crazy? Now we don't have any money left at all!'
Murphy replied, 'Don't worry - just follow me.'
He went into the pub where he immediately ordered two pints of Guinness and two glasses of Jamieson Whisky.
Shamus said 'Now you've lost it. Do you know how much trouble we will be in? We haven't got any money!!'
Murphy replied, with a smile. 'Don't ! worry, I have a plan, Cheers!'
They downed their drinks. Murphy said, 'OK, I'll stick the sausage through my zipper and you go on your knees and put it in your mouth.'
The barman noticed them, went berserk, and threw them out.
They continued this, pub after pub, getting more and more drunk, all for free.
At the tenth pub Shamus said 'Murphy - I don't think I can do any more of this. I'm drunk and me knees are killin' me!'
Murphy said, 'How do you think I feel? I lost the sausage in the third pub.'
LMAO
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I've found the words!
喜欢. gusta. ような. suka. aimez. piace. 좋아한다. mag. люблю.