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Time travel, practical application

Have you ever smiled or cried remembering something? Have you ever dreamed about who or where you want to be? If you have, then you have used one of the most sophisticated piece of machinery this world has ever seen: the time machine.

Yes, a time machine built inside yourself. A marvelous machine that will work for you for as long as you are alive and being alive means to have memories and dreams.

Memories show us what we have lived, why we cried, laughed and celebrated.

Dreams show us laughing and celebrating beyond the challenges of today.

Then enjoy today, remember yesterday and dream of tomorrow!

Live!

prom and after

thursday:

thursday was the day of the prom. it started out way earlier than i expected. i woke up around 9 ish, and i bummed around the house for a bit, washing my face and brushing my teeth. then my mom drove me and all of my stuff to lee's house. lisa opened the door for me, i waddled into lee's with all of my stuff. i found him in his room in his underwear looking at something. blah. i just hopped into his bed for extra sleeping time. we just snuggled and tickled each other in bed for a while, after fighting our urges to stay in bed we got up and took a shower before heading to the mall for food and stuff.

we grabbed lunch at the food court, and i got some snacks from tnt for the salon. around 3 ish we walked our bums to the salon so i can get my hair done. lee dropped me off and he headed home more nap time, while i spend the next 2 hours at the salon getting my hair dyed, cut, and styled. the hairdresser lady was pretty nice to me, chatted with me and made sure my hair looks good. i met up with lee at the rbc thingy, after waiting for him. boo... cuz i looked like a freak... well in comparison to other people.

anywho, we picked up the flower thingy, and lee gave me 200 bucks for the hair then we headed home. both of us quickly got ready because we took our time getting home for being idiots. :P lee helped me put on my dress because i sucked. we got into the nice car that lee's dad rented and we drove to the bellagio for prom. prom was as i expected, tons of pictures, pretty people and just pure craziness.

the snacks before the dinner was quite good, although the sweet and sour sauce could be a bit more tasty. taking pictures was fun, although i wasn't a big fan of taking so many pictures. i am not that narcissistic. the food was decent, lee kept making crazy comments during dinner, which was quite funny to say the least. i felt kinda bad for kc though because he was expressing that he was a bit lonely at his table at prom, i guess its hard since he didn't know everyone at his table. i think at least he had fun dancing and stuff after the dinner. yup.

the prom video was absolutely touching, so many memories and good times. i will never forget the friends i have made in mac. keep in touch. dancing after dinner was fun. lots of crazy music. i so need to get used to dancing in heels once again, at least my feet didn't start hurting till like the fourth last song. props to me.

it was so sad having to say goodbye to everyone, i suppose it wasn't really goodbye just a see you later. although, i wasn't really close friends to everyone there but next year would be different, new faces unlike the ones everyday i see in the hallways of mac, everything is about to change. i hugged and shook hands with many close friends, friends, and even just classmates. the emotions, the flashbacks, how i wanted to just freeze that moment in time forever. certainly change must occur, but how i wish i could be young forever, to have things just the way they are forever. dreams...

after prom, i was deciding with lee what to do. i was invited to both pauline's party and tiff y's sleepover, but i couldn't just ditch lee to do my own thing, and going to either party seems rather feminine for my taste. so lee and i chilled with lynn, eric k, jimmy, brian, charmaine, and we picked up justin at his house for pool at mix 2. we played pool till 2.45 am. then brian smartly suggest that we should go downtown to play monopoly. yeah right... lol. so we drove lynn, charmaine, and ourselves home to actually get some rest, and the four guys headed to do their own guys activity. lee and i chilled in my basement in front of the t.v. reflecting on the night. soon lee fell asleep, and i rolled around until morning before i too fell alseep.

we slept until 11 ish in the morning. we rolled around in my covers, after deciding that we were hungry, we ordered mr. sub for lunch. while we ate we watched caillou, reccess, judge mathis and other various shows on t.v. after wasting our afternoon away in front of the t.v. lee headed home for his family dinner, and i got ready for fellowship.

saturday:

i woke up, got ready and bused my ass across the city to lee's. chilled in his bed for a bit because his damn bed is too comfy for anyone's good. then we headed to the mall for lunch. after lunch, we went shopping for a bikini for me and flip flops. i bought a cute redish pinkish bikini and a matching pinkish flip flops for the long weekend at the boat. lee got a bit frustrated with me because i suck at shopping. sorrie dumbotron.

we got yogen fruz before we headed home. i love yogen fruz, okie i love lee too. when we got home, we played some japanese dating game. so jokes. we grab mcd's for dinner because we wanna be unhealthy. after dinner we played more of that dating game. then i decided to watch the movie the girl next door, its such porn. haha. inexperience shy guys are such jokes. my dad came to pick me up after the movie. so that's saturday.

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now for something funny, that i told lee that i would work on.

Redneck Driver's Application

Last name: ________________

First name:

[_] Billy-Bob [_] Bobby-Sue

[_] Billy-Joe [_] Bobby-Jo

[_] Billy-Ray [_] Bobby-Ann

[_] Billy-Sue [_] Bobby-Lee

[_] Billy-Mae[_] Bobby-Ellen

[_] Billy-Jack [_] Bobby-Beth Ann Sue

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Age: ____ (if unsure, guess)

Sex: [_]M [_]F [_]None

Shoe Size: ____ Left ____ Right

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Occupation: [_] Farmer [_] Waitress [_] Mechanic

[_] Dirty Politician [_] Hair Dresser [_] Un-employed

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Spouse's Name: ______________________

2nd Spouse's Name: __________________

3rd Spouse's Name: __________________

Lover's Name: _______________________

2nd Lover's Name: ___________________

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Relationship with spouse: [_] Sister [_] Aunt

[_] Brother [_] Uncle [_] Mother [_] Father

[_] Son [_] Cousin [_] Daughter [_] Pet

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Number of children living in household: ___

Number of children living in shed: ___

Number of children that are yours: ___

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Education: 1 2 3 4 (Circle highest grade completed)

If higher education what was your major?

[_] 5th grade [_] 6th grade

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Do you [_] Own [_] Rent your mobile home?

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Vehicles you own and where you keep them:

___ Total number of vehicles you own

___ Number of vehicles that still crank

___ Number of vehicles in front yard

___ Number of vehicles in back yard

___ Number of vehicles on cement blocks

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Firearms you own and where you keep them:

[_] truck [_] kitchen [_] bedroom

[_] bathroom/outhouse [_] shed [_] pawnshop

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Model and year of your pickup: _______ 194_

Do you have a gun rack?

[_] Yes [_] No; If no, please explain:

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Newspapers/magazines you subscribe to:

[_] The National Enquirer [_] TV Guide

[_] Soap Opera Digest [_] Bassmasters

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___ Number of times you've seen a UFO

___ Number of times you've seen Elvis

___ Number of times you've seen Elvis in a UFO

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How far is your home from a paved road?

[_] 1 mile [_] 2 miles

[_] don't know

sleepy...

Your Leo Drinking Style

You love to drink and dance -- you're likely a fabulous dancer. You're usually pretty a good drinker as well, losing your commanding dignity and turning kittenish. Of course, you're quite aware you're darling -- Leos will be Leos, after all. You generally know your limit, probably because you loathe losing self-control. When you get over-refreshed, flirting will ensue -- and perhaps not with the person what brought you. But you are not the type to break rules even when drunk, so others try to ignore your naughty behavior. You'll just make up for it with a sheepish (and hung over) apology the next day.

Your Signature Cocktails

Leos like flashy drinks, be they complicated tropical concoctions festooned with umbrellas, like a Bahama mama or the more common strawberry daiquiri or mai tai. Indeed, you often have a taste for the fruity -- try a screwdriver, or add an extra cherry to the next Manhattan. Your sense of drama lends itself to a kir royale, of course.

Your Celebrity Drinking Buddies

Edward Norton, Bill Clinton, Madonna, Debra Messing, Martha Stewart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christian Slater, and Fred Durst.

What's Your Alcohoroscope?

thinking...

monday:

i woke up super early for some reason. watched crappy morning cartoon. waited for lee to get up and do his stuff and then we met up at finch to head downtown. went downtown at 1 ish for lunch. after lunch, we met amanda at eaton centre to go shopping for my shoes and just basially chill. shopping with amanda was super fun. lol. being the two coloured person in the trio going into american eagle was quite an experience. haha. walking and talking along yonge was nice, and we got dessert too. i also spend like 100 bucks on makeup at sephora, the sales lady there was like super nice and she did a demo of how to do my makeup for me. i felt special sitting on the chair. hehe. ooo and when we were at aldo, people were complimenting me with my shoes. i feel super amazing, haha this is like an adonis effect, i am so proud to have such nice legs. :P j/k
i also booked my appointment for my hair. i did a lot today, extremely proud of myself.

tuesday:
went to school and picked my yearbook. signed yearbooks for like 5 hours in algeo room. it was insane, my hand was like crying at the end of that. blah.

wednesday:
special assembly for ms. whipp. i felt so priviledge to be part of student leaders to be able to have a personal relationship with ms. whipp and to be part of the assembly. *tears* after the assembly more yearbook signing in the cafe. brian offered to drive me, lynn and liz to fairview to grab food and get stuff. lol. it was so funny waiting for people to get out of cafe. after getting to fairview, we got food, and lynn talked to this cute guy with the x&y t-shirt. haha. liz was going crazy. but damn that guy was cute, he seems awfully nice too. liz also dragged us to hmv in hopes of seeing more cute guys. i felt sorry for brian. i also persuaded lynn to try yogen fruz. lol. told you guys it was delicious. :P brian and i then dropped lynn off at angelina's place. the two of us then headed to pmall to get brian's photo copied and stuff. then we headed to neilson house to pick up my swimming stuff. lol thx brian for the ride. and then he dropped me home, before heading back to school for a gig later that night.

thursday:
prom!

its getting late prom update tomorrow. hehe.

THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY

The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that:

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

At first, the statement sounds trivial, vague and horribly ungenerous. Closer scrutiny will however reveal its realistic veracity. No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:



a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.

b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.
The First Basic Law prevents me from attributing a specific numerical value to the fraction of stupid people within the total population: any numerical estimate would turn out to be an underestimate. Thus in the following pages I will denote the fraction of stupid people within a population by the symbol å.

THE SECOND BASIC LAW

Cultural trends now fashionable in the West favour an egalitarian approach to life. People like to think of human beings as the output of a perfectly engineered mass production machine. Geneticists and sociologists especially go out of their way to prove, with an impressive apparatus of scientific data and formulations that all men are naturally equal and if some are more equal than others, this is attributable to nurture and not to nature. I take an exception to this general view. It is my firm conviction, supported by years of observation and experimentation, that men are not equal, that some are stupid and others are not, and that the difference is determined by nature and not by cultural forces or factors. One is stupid in the same way one is red-haired; one belongs to the stupid set as one belongs to a blood group. A stupid man is born a stupid man by an act of Providence. Although convinced that fraction of human beings are stupid and that they are so because of genetic traits, I am not a reactionary trying to reintroduce surreptitiously class or race discrimination. I firmly believe that stupidity is an indiscriminate privilege of all human groups and is uniformly distributed according to a constant proportion. This fact is scientifically expressed by the Second Basic Law which states that



The probability that a certain person will be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

In this regard, Nature seems indeed to have outdone herself. It is well known that Nature manages, rather mysteriously, to keep constant the relative frequency of certain natural phenomena. For instance, whether men proliferate at the Northern Pole or at the Equator, whether the matching couples are developed or underdeveloped, whether they are black, red, white or yellow the female to male ratio among the newly born is a constant, with a very slight prevalence of males. We do not know how Nature achieves this remarkable result but we know that in order to achieve it Nature must operate with large numbers. The most remarkable fact about the frequency of stupidity is that Nature succeeds in making this frequency equal to the probability quite independently from the size of the group.

Thus one finds the same percentage of stupid people whether one is considering very large groups or one is dealing with very small ones. No other set of observable phenomena offers such striking proof of the powers of Nature.

The evidence that education has nothing to do with the probability was provided by experiments carried on in a large number of universities all over the world. One may distinguish the composite population which constitutes a university in five major groups, namely the blue-collar workers, the white-collar employees, the students, the administrators and the professors.

Whenever I analyzed the blue-collar workers I found that the fraction å of them were stupid. As å's value was higher than I expected (First Law), paying my tribute to fashion I thought at first that segregation, poverty, lack of education were to be blamed. But moving up the social ladder I found that the same ratio was prevalent among the white-collar employees and among the students. More impressive still were the results among the professors. Whether I considered a large university or a small college, a famous institution or an obscure one, I found that the same fraction å of the professors are stupid. So bewildered was I by the results, that I made a special point to extend my research to a specially selected group, to a real elite, the Nobel laureates. The result confirmed Nature's supreme powers: å fraction of the Nobel laureates are stupid.

This idea was hard to accept and digest but too many experimental results proved its fundamental veracity. The Second Basic Law is an iron law, and it does not admit exceptions. The Women's Liberation Movement will support the Second Basic Law as it shows that stupid individuals are proportionately as numerous among men as among women. The underdeveloped of the Third World will probably take solace at the Second Basic Law as they can find in it the proof that after all the developed are not so developed. Whether the Second Basic Law is liked or not, however, its implications are frightening: the Law implies that whether you move in distinguished circles or you take refuge among the head-hunters of Polynesia, whether you lock yourself into a monastery or decide to spend the rest of your life in the company of beautiful and lascivious women, you always have to face the same percentage of stupid people - which percentage (in accordance with the First Law) will always surpass your expectations.

THE THIRD (AND GOLDEN) BASIC LAW

The Third Basic Law assumes, although it does not state it explicitly, that human beings fall into four basic categories: the helpless, the intelligent, the bandit and the stupid. It will be easily recognized by the perspicacious reader that these four categories correspond to the four areas I, H, S, B, of the basic graph (see below).



If Tom takes an action and suffers a loss while producing a gain to Dick, Tom's mark will fall in field H: Tom acted helplessly. If Tom takes an action by which he makes a gain while yielding a gain also to Dick, Tom's mark will fall in area I: Tom acted intelligently. If Tom takes an action by which he makes a gain causing Dick a loss, Tom's mark will fall in area B: Tom acted as a bandit. Stupidity is related to area S and to all positions on axis Y below point O. As the Third Basic Law explicitly clarifies:

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

When confronted for the first time with the Third Basic Law, rational people instinctively react with feelings of skepticism and incredulity. The fact is that reasonable people have difficulty in conceiving and understanding unreasonable behaviour. But let us abandon the lofty plane of theory and let us look pragmatically at our daily life. We all recollect occasions in which a fellow took an action which resulted in his gain and our loss: we had to deal with a bandit. We also recollect cases in which a fellow took an action which resulted in his loss and our gain: we had to deal with a helpless person. We can recollect cases in which a fellow took an action by which both parties gained: he was intelligent. Such cases do indeed occur. But upon thoughtful reflection you must admit that these are not the events which punctuate most frequently our daily life. Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION

Most people do not act consistently. Under certain circumstances a given person acts intelligently and under different circumstances the same person will act helplessly. The only important exception to the rule is represented by the stupid people who normally show a strong proclivity toward perfect consistency in all fields of human endeavours.

From all that proceeds, it does not follow that we can chart on the basic graph only stupid individuals. We can calculate for each person his weighted average position in the plane of figure 1 quite independently from his degree of inconsistency. A helpless person may occasionally behave intelligently and on occasion he may perform a bandit's action. But since the person in question is fundamentally helpless most of his action will have the characteristics of helplessness. Thus the overall weighted average position of all the actions of such a person will place him in the H quadrant of the basic graph.

The fact that it is possible to place on the graph individuals instead of their actions allows some digression about the frequency of the bandit and stupid types.

The perfect bandit is one who, with his actions, causes to other individuals losses equal to his gains. The crudest type of banditry is theft. A person who robs you of 100 pounds without causing you an extra loss or harm is a perfect bandit: you lose 100 pounds, he gains 100 pounds. In the basic graph the perfect bandits would appear on a 45-degree diagonal line that divides the area B into two perfectly symmetrical sub-areas (line OM of figure 2).



However the "perfect" bandits are relatively few. The line OM divides the area B into two sub-areas, B1, and B2, and by far the largest majority of the bandits falls somewhere in one of these two sub-areas.

The bandits who fall in area B1 are those individuals whose actions yield to them profits which are larger than the losses they cause to other people. All bandits who are entitled to a position in area B1 are bandits with overtones of intelligence and as they get closer to the right side of the X axis they share more and more the characteristics of the intelligent person.

Unfortunately the individuals entitled to a position in the B1 area are not very numerous. Most bandits actually fall in area B2. The individuals who fall in this area are those whose actions yield to them gains inferior to the losses inflicted to other people. If someone kills you in order to rob you of fifty pounds or if he murders you in order to spend a weekend with your wife at Monte Carlo, we can be sure that he is not a perfect bandit. Even by using his values to measure his gains (but still using your values to measure your losses) he falls in the B2 area very close to the border of sheer stupidity. Generals who cause vast destruction and innumerable casualties in return for a promotion or a medal fall in the same area.

The frequency distribution of the stupid people is totally different from that of the bandit. While bandits are mostly scattered over an area stupid people are heavily concentrated along one line, specifically on the Y axis below point O. The reason for this is that by far the majority of stupid people are basically and unwaveringly stupid - in other words they perseveringly insist in causing harm and losses to other people without deriving any gain, whether positive or negative.

There are however people who by their improbable actions not only cause damages to other people but in addition hurt themselves. They are a sort of super-stupid who, in our system of accounting, will appear somewhere in the area S to the left of the Y axis.

THE POWER OF STUPIDITY

It is not difficult to understand how social, political and institutional power enhances the damaging potential of a stupid person. But one still has to explain and understand what essentially it is that makes a stupid person dangerous to other people - in other words what constitutes the power of stupidity.

Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour. An intelligent person may understand the logic of a bandit. The bandit's actions follow a pattern of rationality: nasty rationality, if you like, but still rationality. The bandit wants a plus on his account. Since he is not intelligent enough to devise ways of obtaining the plus as well as providing you with a plus, he will produce his plus by causing a minus to appear on your account. All this is bad, but it is rational and if you are rational you can predict it. You can foresee a bandit's actions, his nasty manoeuvres and ugly aspirations and often can build up your defenses.

With a stupid person all this is absolutely impossible as explained by the Third Basic Law. A stupid creature will harass you for no reason, for no advantage, without any plan or scheme and at the most improbable times and places. You have no rational way of telling if and when and how and why the stupid creature attacks. When confronted with a stupid individual you are completely at his mercy. Because the stupid person's actions do not conform to the rules of rationality, it follows that:

a) one is generally caught by surprise by the attack; b) even when one becomes aware of the attack, one cannot organize a rational defense, because the attack itself lacks any rational structure.

The fact that the activity and movements of a stupid creature are absolutely erratic and irrational not only makes defense problematic but it also makes any counter-attack extremely difficult - like trying to shoot at an object which is capable of the most improbable and unimaginable movements. This is what both Dickens and Schiller had in mind when the former stated that "with stupidity and sound digestion man may front much" and the latter wrote that "against stupidity the very Gods fight in vain."

THE FOURTH BASIC LAW

That helpless people, namely those who in our accounting system fall into the H area, do not normally recognize how dangerous stupid people are, is not at all surprising. Their failure is just another expression of their helplessness. The truly amazing fact, however, is that also intelligent people and bandits often fail to recognize the power to damage inherent in stupidity. It is extremely difficult to explain why this should happen and one can only remark that when confronted with stupid individuals often intelligent men as well as bandits make the mistake of indulging in feelings of self-complacency and contemptuousness instead of immediately secreting adequate quantities of adrenaline and building up defenses.

One is tempted to believe that a stupid man will only do harm to himself but this is confusing stupidity with helplessness. On occasion one is tempted to associate oneself with a stupid individual in order to use him for one's own schemes. Such a manoeuvre cannot but have disastrous effects because a) it is based on a complete misunderstanding of the essential nature of stupidity and b) it gives the stupid person added scope for the exercise of his gifts. One may hope to outmanoeuvre the stupid and, up to a point, one may actually do so. But because of the erratic behaviour of the stupid, one cannot foresee all the stupid's actions and reactions and before long one will be pulverized by the unpredictable moves of the stupid partner.

This is clearly summarized in the Fourth Basic Law which states that:

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

Through centuries and millennia, in public as in private life, countless individuals have failed to take account of the Fourth Basic Law and the failure has caused mankind incalculable losses.

THE FIFTH BASIC LAW

Instead of considering the welfare of the individual let us consider the welfare of the society, regarded in this context as the algebraic sum of the individual conditions. A full understanding of the Fifth Basic Law is essential to the analysis. It may be parenthetically added here that of the Five Basic Laws, the Fifth is certainly the best known and its corollary is quoted very frequently. The Fifth Basic Law states that:

A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

The corollary of the Law is that:

A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

The result of the action of a perfect bandit (the person who falls on line OM of figure 2) is purely and simply a transfer of wealth and/or welfare. After the action of a perfect bandit, the bandit has a plus on his account which plus is exactly equivalent to the minus he has caused to another person. The society as a whole is neither better nor worse off. If all members of a society were perfect bandits the society would remain stagnant but there would be no major disaster. The whole business would amount to massive transfers of wealth and welfare in favour of those who would take action. If all members of the society would take action in regular turns, not only the society as a whole but also individuals would find themselves in a perfectly steady state of no change.

When stupid people are at work, the story is totally different. Stupid people cause losses to other people with no counterpart of gains on their own account. Thus the society as a whole is impoverished. The system of accounting which finds expression in the basic graphs shows that while all actions of individuals falling to the right of the line POM (see fig. 3) add to the welfare of a society; although in different degrees, the actions of all individuals falling to the left of the same line POM cause a deterioration.



In other words the helpless with overtones of intelligence (area H1), the bandits with overtones of intelligence (area B1) and above all the intelligent (area I) all contribute, though in different degrees, to accrue to the welfare of a society. On the other hand the bandits with overtones of stupidity (area B2) and the helpless with overtones of stupidity (area H1) manage to add losses to those caused by stupid people thus enhancing the nefarious destructive power of the latter group.

All this suggests some reflection on the performance of societies. According to the Second Basic Law, the fraction of stupid people is a constant å which is not affected by time, space, race, class or any other socio- cultural or historical variable. It would be a profound mistake to believe the number of stupid people in a declining society is greater than in a developing society. Both such societies are plagued by the same percentage of stupid people. The difference between the two societies is that in the society which performs poorly:

a) the stupid members of the society are allowed by the other members to become more active and take more actions; b) there is a change in the composition of the non-stupid section with a relative decline of populations of areas I, H1 and B1 and a proportionate increase of populations H2 and B2.

This theoretical presumption is abundantly confirmed by an exhaustive analysis of historical cases. In fact the historical analysis allows us to reformulate the theoretical conclusions in a more factual way and with more realistic detail.

Whether one considers classical, or medieval, or modern or contemporary times one is impressed by the fact that any country moving uphill has its unavoidable å fraction of stupid people. However the country moving uphill also has an unusually high fraction of intelligent people who manage to keep the å fraction at bay and at the same time produce enough gains for themselves and the other members of the community to make progress a certainty.

In a country which is moving downhill, the fraction of stupid people is still equal to å; however in the remaining population one notices among those in power an alarming proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity (sub-area B1 of quadrant B in figure 3) and among those not in power an equally alarming growth in the number of helpless individuals (area H in basic graph, fig.1). Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the å fraction and makes decline a certainty. And the country goes to Hell.

by Carlo M. Cipolla

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thx carlo for helping to express my frustration towards ...

blah.

blue man group

wednesday:
after spending a long boring day at school and having a great meeting at mcf. i bus my ass across the city in the intense heat to lee's house. we chilled and sat around until dinner time, we had italian for dinner, which was quite good. then, we head to finch, where we proceeded to ttc to yonge and bloor to see the blue man group. the blue man group was amazing, it was funny and entertaining. i can't wait to go see it again. although, i could do less with the toilet paper. :P

Link
Blue Man Group

thursday:
went to bridlewood with vanessa, she returned her library books, and we ate and chilled at the food court where there is AC.

friday:
omgosh. got "hit on" by like 2 guys on the way to meeting up with my mom. guys, girls are not a piece of meat, chill it with the cheap ass pick up lines. blah. like honestly, did these people really think they have a chance? hell no! freaks.
fellowship was interesting. afterwards, we went to this place at warden and steeles to chill, and get food. stupid tall derek. convo. was so jokes. um... good looking girls eh.
"dancing is like sex to woman." *wink wink*

saturday:
lee's day
catching up on sleep was wonderful. z... an example that life is full of assholes. that's why he is full of shit. :P
watched dodgeball, while eating cotton candy. just chilling with the one whom you know is going to spend the rest of his life wasting his time doing stupid stuff with you and think it is the best damn thing in the whole wide world is quite fulfilling. haha. love ya dumbotron.

sunday (today):
church day
talking to god-bro. lol angelina jolie eh... *note to self* gotta corrupt mr. sammy.
it was fun chilling at church with friends. had long meeting... zZzZzZz
knowing these that other people don't is fun.

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dedicated to my friend who got upset at me for dissing at his nerdiness for starwars.

More than a week ago, theaters sold out every single ticket they had to one single movie. A movie that was to be presented at the very first minute of May 19th.

On May 18th at 22:00 the parking lots were running backwards. Instead of people checking out, people were checking in.

People around the globe gathered together to celebrate and finally see the last piece of a story that began in 1977 at the fourth episode.

Customs, toys, collectibles, t-shirts and even lightsabers were among the celebration. It was easy to see Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, a Storm trooper and even Luke Skywalker with Yoda on his back in line, celebrating the moment.

The light side of the Force was strong with the ones in line. Photographs, laughs and Star Wars talk were the common scene along the line.

In the last minutes of May 18th, the line started to move towards the theater. The expectation increased. The time was coming...

Few minutes passed and we found ourselves seated and waiting for the lights to fade dark.

Two commercials and it happened. Lights turned off, the 20th Century Fox fanfare was heard and the Lucas Film logo disappeared just as fast. The screen went black and not a single sound was heard in the theater when the blue words made it finally to the big screen: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" showed and made it official: the long wait had ended. The movie was playing.

More than two hours later, the movie ended with what everyone knew in advance, bringing to an end the saga that begun more than 20 years ago, when no one knew why the first movie was the fourth.

We may never see another Star Wars movie on the big screen, nevertheless, the Force will remain with us as long as we live for the good of us all.

xoxo

Part Passionate Kisser
For you, kissing is about all about following your urgesIf someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of storyYou can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kissesA total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble

Part Expert Kisser
You're a kissing pro, but it's all about quality and not quantityYou've perfected your kissing technique and can knock anyone's socks offAnd you're adaptable, giving each partner what they craveWhen it comes down to it, your kisses are truly unforgettable

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no need for pics... its steamy enough. :P

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofkisserareyouquiz/

expression number

Your Expression Number is 9

An idealist and humanitarian, you strive to make the world a better place.You do your best when you follow your feelings and sense of compassion.Deep down, you dream of being loved by many. You are capable of much human understanding and have a lot to give to others.While you are very ambitious, you never lose site of perspective.You have an abundance of creative talents... you just need to tap into them. Although you are a giving person, you can become selfish if you are ignored.If you are not able to help people, you tend to shelf your talents.Without others, you become aloof and start to lack sensitivity.

What's" Your Expression Number?

the true me eh?!...

The True You

You want your girlfriend or boyfriend to be more relaxed, calm, and composed.

With respect to money, you spend whatever you have.

You think good luck might come your way, but if it does you'll be so surprised you'll burst out laughing.

The hidden side of your personality tends to be satisfied to care for things with a minimal amount of effort.

You have a tendency to overdo things, but basically you value your friendships highly.

When it comes to finding a romantic partner, you base your search on information from your friends.

Who's" the True You?

Teenagers' Requests to the "Make-A-Wish Foundation"

"Nail Jennifer Garner."


"Have Arcade Fire play at my house and not invite that dickwad Todd from chemistry."


"Get, like, totally fucked in Amsterdam and then wake up in my brand new Hummer."


"Eliminate all Internet footage of me pretending to have a lightsaber duel with a golf ball retriever."


"Have charisma rating of 20 mean something outside of the elf hamlet of Levindore."


"Direct every lesbian-kiss on 'The O.C.'"


"Be a size 2 by junior prom."


"Finally be invited to a party for someone outside of my family."


"Completely pimp out my '83 Pontiac Fiero."


"Become super-famous by age 18 so I don't have to attend community college."


"Be voted American Idol, then North American Idol, then World Idol, then put on a concert for tsunami relief."


"Never, ever let my parents find out what I meant when I wrote about 'teabagging' in my blog."


"Help Maxim cover girls get into their leather outfits."


"Get name-checked on 'Gilmore Girls.'"


"Be known as the best damn gangsta rapper straight outta Scarsdale."


"Never have to get undressed in the gym locker room."


"Live in a mad crib with hallway beer bongs, bathroom kegs, bedroom taps and a ping pong table...for beer pong."


"Get away in real life with every thing I do in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"


"Just give me one day where my experiences don't result in another six pages of gut-wrenching poetry."

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june 2. o5 - 2 long flipping years -> a really really long time

can you believe it? me of all people dating for 2 years. that's insanity right there.
we didn't do anything uber special for 2 years anniversary, i guess because

a) i kinda forgot until lee reminded me... oops
b) i think i was busy doing something not very important
c) too lazy to celebrate
d) its only 2 years
e) ...

anywho, it was overall a great 2 years of doing tons of stupid and crazy yet fun stuff with another insane person.
we made it out alive through all the up and the many downs. yay to us. hopefully, there will be a lifetime of adventures to come, and many more anniversaries to celebrate. love ya dumbotron. :P

friday:
-fellowship
-chilled with friends
-too many i.q. questions for anyone's good

saturday:
-lee time
-watched cinderella man (such a good movie *major thumbs up*)
-tiff y.'s b-day party
-um... cake
-chilled with old friends and made some new ones

sunday:
-church
-chilled with friends/god-bros etc.
-funny convo. about girls and babies
-queer sammy... yes it is all john's fault
-yummy brunch
-mistaken...

today (monday):
-d.t. w. lee
-bay and bloor
-mc. d's
-bump into ken choi
-watched the longest yard (not bad)
-eaton centre
-bumped into amanda and dan
-yes! shoes (thank you for understanding mandy... *rolls eyes*)
-harvey's (too much food gonna get chubby)
-sleepy cuddlebear
-work... thanks guys for the enjoyable session

Bored? Listless? Help is at hand!

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Push your eyes for interesting light show
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out things your subconscious is trying to send you a message? Can you control what you see by pressing different areas with different forces? Would it be possible to somehow see the same effects on TV?

See how long you can hold your breath
(Amusement Potential: 4-20 minutes)
Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Some tips: hyperventilate before hand, and stay as still as possible. My personal best is 2:00 (exactly).

Try to not think about polar bears
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about polar bears anyway.

Scratch yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn't that feel pretty good?

Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Pick a random word out of a magazine and say it aloud to yourself until it becomes a meaningless set of noises.

Hurt yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.

Try to swallow your tongue
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
There's not much to say about this one. It is possible.

Pretend to be a car
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Make appropriate revving noises in your head as you walk along and add a racing commentary as you pass strangers in the street. Use blinking eyes as indicators for extra authenticity.

Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
Another great time waster. It takes about 30 seconds of staring to create an after image, and the image is then viewable for about the same length of time. Fun to combine this one with pushing on your eyes.

Get yourself as nauseated as possible
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Best achieved by looking straight up and spinning around. Try to be so dizzy you can't even stand up. This is also entertaining due to the "makes boredom seem a lot better" effect (see "Hurt Yourself").

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH VERY LITTLE

See what's in your neighbour's trash
(Amusement Potential: 20-30 minutes)
You can learn a lot about people by what they throw out. You might uncover some dark secret about them. Plus, they might be throwing out something with value that still works, like a VCR.

Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Sort of entertaining. Include flamboyant shoulder shrugs for added impact, or go for a Marlon Brando set of grunts.

Send spooky emails
(Amusement Potential: 15-60 minutes)
Look up someone's CV on the web, do some research on them via Google and then send them an email full of personal references claiming to be an ex-work colleague who fell in love with their shoes. Or something.

Make prank phone calls
(Amusement Potential: 20-60 minutes)
Very entertaining, but requires discipline. Remember - vulgarities don't make a call funny, but getting the other person to believe a ridiculous story will. TYry seeing if you can get them to make noises to 'test' the line. One to get you started off: Call McDonalds with weird complaints about their food.

Pretend all humans will die except for people in room with you
Amusement Potential: 10-20 minutes)
What would you do if this really happened? Would the group stay together, or would there be factions? Who would join what group? Remember, there would only be power for a few days before the plants ran out of fuel or broke. To travel, you would always have to be near cars to siphon gas out of. Best to do with people you know.

Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
To get any benefit out of this one, you have to have a good imagination. Don't step off immediately, build up to the jump. Study the ravine below. Feel the winds at that altitude. Step off and...AHHHHHH!!!!!

Burn things with a magnifying glass
(Amusement Potential: 5-30 minutes)
Ants are always fun to use for this, but burning the face of someone you don't like, under some circumstances, can be just as entertaining.

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ANOTHER PERSON

Have a water drinking contest
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
While the competition is fun, you probably won't feel too good afterward. To give your event an old western theme, slam the cups upside down on the tables after you have emptied them.

Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
This works on the "I have the feeling I'm being watched" principle. Conduct an experiment-does this really work?

Have a "Who is less competitive" competition
wonder (Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Trying to win at this will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view
(Amusement Potential: 3-5 minutes)
Think about it: your dog has only seen the house from a viewpoint from 6" to 2' high (15 to 60 cm for all you metric fans). It's never seen the tops of counters, what you keep on your desk, the tops of shelves, etc. Try looking at things from its point of view, too.

Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
Best done to sleeping people. Added challenge in having no one else around, because then you can't blame it on anyone else. Try to beat your record number of times before the person catches on.

Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck
(Amusement Potential: 5-15 minutes)
Always a good gag. For an even bigger reaction out of the person, act like you're not sorry at all for what they think you did. Comment instead on how big that sneeze was or about how there was a lot of mucus in that one.

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update on weekend soon... fine now

fri. sandy's b-day party
dinner at summerfields
chilled at ray's
sat. productive day with lee
watched star wars
went to the mall
watched finding neverland
fun in the shower
do stupid stuff with lee
sun. church
brunch with gavin and john
chilled with fellowship friends for lunch
slept a lot
watched some new hk movie
mon. d.t. with lee and igor(eeyor)
picked up u.t. stuff (uber confusing)
bumped into arpana
watched madagascar
went to work
got home early because of fouling
watched tons of t.v.
slept.