My Theories

Colds and Allergies

I have a theory about how colds spread. I've seen research saying that a prime method of cold virus transmission is when people touch their nose or eyes. If this is true, then allergy seasons should also be a time with lots of colds. I would think people who are dealing with allergies by blowing their noses and rubbing their eyes would be putting themselves at great risk of contracting cold or flu viruses.

Pi

A few months ago, a mathematician got some publicity about using a new computational method of finding the Xth billionth decimal place of Pi (3.14159....). He didn't find where it ends, he just was able to go farther than previous mathematicians in finding it to a smaller and smaller decimal place.

It was mentioned that the decimal numbers that make up Pi have a lot of interesting properties. The numbers are not random, yet there is no known pattern or sequence.

My conjecture is that perhaps this is a clue to something... Pi is just the ratio of a sphere's circumference with its diameter. Yet this simple and universal ratio creates a number with seemingly endless complexity. Wouldn't this be an incredibly elegant way for God to encode the blueprints of the universe? It would be the ultimate DNA.

Don't have a clue about how to decode it though.... In the message boards about this Pi article, people were complaining about the uselessness of this research. Perhaps using some imagination like this can make this research seem more appealing. This research may not lead to something practical any time soon, but is it any less "useful" than researching new long distance golf ball designs? Or new ways to make it easier to open up juice cartoons? Or new beer cans with bigger mouths to allow more efficient drinking??

Some humorous quotes from Seinfeld that I've come across in the last few weeks

This is a quote from George when Jerry was telling George about how he and Elaine started a "friendly arrangement":

See, that's why I don't have cable in my house, because of that naked station, if I had that in my house, I would never turn it off, I wouldn't sleep, I wouldn't eat. Eventually, fireman would have to break through the door. They would find me sitting there in my pajamas with drool coming down my face.

This is from the episode in which Jerry and George first made the "Pact" in which they would become "men" and get serious about women. George then goes on to propose to Susan. But before Jerry could act, Kramer gives some advice to Jerry:

What are you thinking about Jerry? Marriage? Family? They're prisons! Man-made prisons. You're doing time! You get up in the morning; she's there. You go to sleep at night; she's there. It's like you got to ask permission to use the bathroom.

And one of my favorite minor characters, Jackie Childs gives Kramer his opinion on the movie theater's policy of prohibiting outside drinks from being brought in:

Outrageous, egregious, proposterous

Don't usually watch "King of the Hill", but I happened to see one rerun in which Hank came up with a line that I found humorous since it kind of describes my driving. Hank was driving his boss, and his boss praised his careful driving. Hank said his secret is to "treat the gas pedal as if it were an egg".

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