There are a lot of issues that I want to write about: the illegality of carrying porn in your cell phones, the nonsensial allocation of centers for the CAT tomorrow, the pulse Polio immunization campaign, the latest post of Joel Spolsky and the BOFH, the Sony DRM fiasco, the stupid email forward doing the rounds about why men are happier et al. But all of those are pretty serious topics, and I just want to rant…
Seinfeld: “It’s a show about nothing”, they say. Over time, I have come to absolutely detest the jokes Jerry puts up at the start and the end of the show, in his act of the stand-up comedian. They are simply illogical, and full of falacies. He does not think, he uses extremely narrow analogies, and sometimes they are outright stupid. The show, otherwise very good, is some how getting on my nerves now, just because of those jokes… But I still watch them, just to see how dumb people can get.
What is with the caselets and reading comprehension passages that the paper setters at the various CAT papers use? The are at times so wonderfully out of a reference of any kind. There was this example about dinosaurs, eight of them exact, replete with names and all. The caselet was about the length of the steps they took, and in the typical logical reasoning and data interpretation style, they had jumpled up the information, and we had to read through the caselet and assign each of those behemoths their correct step sizes, so to say. What was horribly wrong was that they all had integral lengths, and they were measured in miles. So the longest step was something like ten miles, and the shortest distance that a dinosaur took in one step was two miles. This might be a good time to roll eyes. I mean, come on, give me a better example, something more believable. Or stick to generic variables, and not dinosaurs.
Hit this site yesterday, about the God that is Jennifer. Goddess, actually, but then she is God, so what can we say? There’s one beautiful thing among the nonsense on the site, and that is:
Gragle Booly.
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PS. My current MSN tag: Subtlety so subtle, it’s subtle in subtlety.
