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Archive for June, 2008
Rules for living
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Joke of the day..
3 years ago
in Funny
A small Alabama Wild Animal Park acquired a very rare species of gorilla.
Within a few weeks, the gorilla, who was a female, became very difficult to handle.
Upon examination, the park veterinarian determined the problem. The gorilla was in heat.
To make matters worse, there was no male gorilla available.
Reflecting on their problem, the park administrator thought of Eddie, a redneck part-time intern, who was responsible for cleaning the animal’s cages.
Eddie, like most rednecks, had little sense, but possessed ample ability to satisfy a female of any species. The park administrator thought they might have a solution.
Eddie was approached with a proposition.
Would he be willing to mate with the gorilla for $500?
Eddie showed some interest, but said he would have to think the matter over carefully.
The following day, Eddie announced that he would accept their offer, but only under the following 3 conditions.
“First,” he said, “I don’t want to have to kiss her on the lips.”
The park administrator quickly agreed to this condition.
“Second,” Eddie said, “you must never tell anyone about this.”
The park administrator again readily agreed to this condition.
And last of all Eddie stated, “You’ve got to give me another week to come up with the $500.”
A tune a day..
Hercules & Love Affair, aka Brooklyn producer Andy Butler, enlists Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons for “Blind”, a superb disco track I came to repeat in my playlist.
the art of complex problem solving
3 years ago
in Writings
As some of you might know, I like to solve problems. I’d like to think I am a solver. While stumbling, I came across an interesting website about the entangled process of problem solving. The picture below illustrates this process.
After scanning the intricate illustrations, may I ask you: Do you,in any way, feel more confident about solving a certain problem? I think not. I appreciate the time put into this work and the idea behind it. But, unfortunately they failed in one of the last steps – communicating clearly. However clever the idea is, if you do not illustrate it in an easy fashion it will only make it more complicated than already is.
My advice to you solving any type of problem: think. If that doesn’t work, Google it!
Seriously now, there are a few tips that you can take into consideration:
- understanding the problem before trying to solve it
- keep it simple and stupid (reduce complexity)
- challenge every one of your assumptions
- address the problem, not the symptoms
Having read all this, go now..find patterns in primes, reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity, disprove god, cure cancer and bring peace to humanity! And don’t forget.. problems are opportunities.