This year is a hard one…
In the East: Montreal
In the West: San Jose
Sina's Stanley Cup Picks 2008
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The Problem with Opposite Day
Sina: Good morning.
Cass: Bad morning.
Sina: ???
Cass: I really meant good morning, but I said bad morning. I said the opposite of what I actually meant.
Sina: Why?
Cass: It’s Opposite Day.
Sina: Hmmmm of course! So..wait…then it’s not opposite day.
Cass: Exactly. *wink*
Sina: Wait wait wait. So is it opposite day?
Cass: No it’s not opposite day, and that’s not *wink* the opposite of what I mean.
Sina: Riiiight. *wink*
[pause]
Sina: I’m confused.
Cass: Listen idiot: it is opposite day…and so that’s why I’m saying that it’s not opposite day.
Sina: So it is opposite day.
Cass: Yes.
Sina: Are you sure?
Cass: Yes.
Sina: Sooooooo [pause] you’re not sure.
Opposite Day should be defined well in advance of the calendar date, so that nobody questions it the day of. I propose February 29, when it exists.
My Burden
What’s most interesting is that liberals characterize me as right-wing, while conservatives characterize me as left-wing.
The truth is everyone seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.
My new interest
My new interest: positive political theory.
A typical conversation with my cousin (metaphorically)
Shiva: We should be in Ottawa.
Sina: Yah I know, let’s drive there.
Shiva: No, we should be in Ottawa right now.
Sina: Yah but we’re not, so we have to get in the car and drive.
Shiva: No but ideally we should already be there.
Sina: Yes Shiva, I know. But we’re not in Ottawa, so we’re gonna have to get in the car and drive there.
Shiva: I don’t understand why we can’t be in Ottawa right now.
Sina: Well we have to drive there, we can’t just snap our fingers.
Shiva: I just really think that we should be in Ottawa right now.
Sina: Shiva, I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m saying.
Ottawa ? elimination of poverty
driving car ? development and productivity growth through policies that are driven by sound economic models
A typical conversation with my friend
Terry: Is that R2D2?
Sina: No, that’s C3PO.
Terry: Oh R2D2 is the fat robot.
Sina: Robots aren’t fat. They’re robots.
Terry: Shut up.
[pause]
Terry: Yo why is that the first funny thing you’ve said since I’ve known you?
Sina: You’re dumb eh.
Darwin should talk to Schrödinger
Charles Darwin:
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
Source: Wikiquote
111 Days in a Week
There are only 10 types of people in the world —
those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Source: Wikipedia
Graduate School
The Question: Mathematics or Economics?
The details, with all values out of 10, are:
| Subject | Difficulty | Ability | Enjoyability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 10 | 6.5 | 11 |
| Economics | 7 | 8.5 | 8 |
An added problem to the decision is that my enjoyment in Economics has actually increased over the past year (probably from 7 to now 8)…will that continue?
My enjoyment in mathematics has been consistently off the charts for years. However, the difficulty level in mathematics has increased significantly into my final undergraduate year (probably from 8.5 to now 10).
My abilities in both subjects have been, and will continue to be, constant.
*knock on wood*
The Hot-Crazy Scale
The above graph is the plotting of Craziness versus Hotness for various famous Hollywood actresses. Those above the dotted line are hotter than they are crazy, while those below are crazier than they are hot. The further someone is from the dotted line, the more extreme the difference between their Craziness and Hotness is.
I tried to keep the sample ethnically diverse, but I couldn’t think of famous English actresses for some/many ethnicities.
It doesn’t seem that hotter girls are generally also crazier, which is what Barney predicts in How I Met Your Mother. Instead, the data is all over the map.
I wonder what the Bitchy-Hot scale would look like….