Today’s Japanese word is: 狐 (kitsune) – fox. xxxHOLiC featured a fox making おでん (oden) – Japanese hodgepodge. There was also this cute little fox kid. Oh! How adorable he was! He wasn’t cute as in drawing cute. It was his actions.

I hope every mother had a wonderful Mother’s Day. Mr T – Treat Your Mother Right (from RayAlome). A very old school video, but tune’s pretty catchy. Here are the lyrics (from MTBSOBSF):

FEMALE CHORUS: (x2)
Treat her right
Treat your mother right
Treat her right
Treat her right

MR. T’s CHORUS:
Mother
There is no other
Like Mother
So treat Her right
Mother
I always Love Her
My Mother
So treat Her right, treat Her right

M is for the moan, and the miserable groan
from the pain that She felt when I was born

O is for the oven with it’s burnin’ heat
where She stood makin’ sure I had something to eat

T is for the time that She stayed up at night
and took my temperature when I wasn’t feelin’ right

H is for the hard earned money She spent
to keep clothes on my back and try to pay da’ rent

E is every wrinkle I put on Her face
and every worry that I caused when I stayed out late

The last letter R is that She taught me Respect
and for the room up in Heaven that I know She’ll get

MR. T Chorus

Female Chorus

She’s a Queen
Second to none
Take care of Mother
You only get one

Female Chorus

Music

MR. T Chorus

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Spinning Gun Firing (from 4chan)

Liam IMs me a week ago asking if I was doing the Da Vinci Code game. I told him I wasn’t and he tells me about the prizes: the Cryptex replica that 10,000 people were getting and the bigger prizes later on. Anyway, it appears that people are receiving their Cryptex already and tons are already on eBay (from MsticAzn). So far the highest it sold for (Buy It Now) is at $99. The cheapest was at $35. However, there’s one open auction at $209.39. Pretty amazing…

Can you be summoned and ordered to appear on Judge Judy? (from MS newsgroup) – So if Judge Judy, who is not without her detractors, can’t compel litigants to appear, how does the program attract participants? This article explains how researchers scour small claims cases nationwide and report potential cases to the show’s producers. After selected plaintiffs and defendants agree to come on the show, they “sign papers saying the judge’s decision will be binding.” The award limit is $5,000. There is also an additional payment for showing up.

Quote from /. (#15328948):

If I do something stupid and 8 people see, I might shrug it off. If I do something stupid and 80 people see, I might not hang around that part of town. But if I do something stupid and 80,000 people see, then I might be scarred for life. It’s just not meant to work that way.

Hey, you’re not alone, especially not on slashdot. The same thought goes through every Open Source coders mind when they submit code to the repository.

🙂

Worry over mobile phone explosions – At least five mobile phones have exploded over the last two months in Brazil, causing anxiety among phone users and making news headlines. The incidents, representing only a fraction of the 89 million phones in circulation in Brazil, all involved Motorola phones. The company said it was investigating and Brazil’s telecommunication agency is pursuing the case as well. KABOOM!

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors – Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned. Horrified? It would’ve been so cool to see this in action! I mean you see these on the Discovery Channel everyday.

So Much Drama in the PhD (from MS newsgroup) by Monzy. A hilarious song and pretty nice sounding too about a CS student striving to get a Ph.D. I’ve bolded the phrases that DW’s been singing all day.

Lyrics (from Monzy):

Yo, MC Plus Plus, my rhymes are so phat,
I’m PSPACE-complete but I’ll reduce you to 3-SAT.
My crew is so hard that we roll in NP,
And bitches dereference my pointer for free.
When I’m linear probing they’re like, “Damn that’s gigantic,”
I showed it to your mom and she used Hoare semantics.
She jumped like JNE up onto my erection
And I picked up that ho like straight garbage collection.
(“That’s right, mark-and-sweep on these nuts, bitch.”)

My lyrics get stolen by sucker MCs,
I gotta sign my rhymes with PGP;
But I keep on generatin’ like a CFG
‘Cause there’s so much drama in the PhD.

What’s wrong MC Plus Plus, am I making you nervous?
Even skanky fat hoes give you denial of service.
You’ll probably go to jail before you write your dissertation
So prepare your asshole for some internal fragmentation;
<Uhhh> Penetration, as they fill it up with jism,
It’s too bad you aren’t closed under homomorphism.
Your problem, Plus Plus, is that your typing isn’t strict:
In ML my type is real and your type is ‘a dict.

I control my flow better than TCP,
I rep the west coast like Eazy-E,
You best not front if you can’t pass the GRE,
‘Cause there’s so much drama in the PhD.

My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin’ all your data suffer.
I’ve got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you’re busy poppin’ stacks I’ll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I’m gonna pipe you to /dev/null.
I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I’m an unsigned long int and you’re an 8-bit char.

Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there’s so much drama in the PhD.

DWORD to your moms, I came to drop bombs;
I’ve got more rhymes that San Jose’s got dotcoms.
I rep the Farm like 50 reps Queens,
With more power than multitape Turing Machines.
Blowin’ up the rap scene faster than factorial functions,
I’m dope like PNP transistors and I’ll saturate your junctions.
By the time you’ve rhymed one line, I’ve already busted ten;
You rap in exponential time and I’m big-O of log(n).

I run gmake and gcc,
And I ain’t never called malloc without calling free.
I’ll beat your ass until it’s colored like a red-black tree
‘Cause there’s so much drama in the PhD.

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An old favorite: Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) by The Klein Four Group. You can check out more of the videos and songs on their non-flash homepage.

Lyrics (from The Klein Four Group):

The path of love is never smooth
But mine’s continuous for you
You’re the upper bound in the chains of my heart
You’re my Axiom of Choice, you know it’s true

But lately our relation’s not so well-defined
And I just can’t function without you
I’ll prove my proposition and I’m sure you’ll find
We’re a finite simple group of order two

I’m losing my identity
I’m getting tensor every day
And without loss of generality
I will assume that you feel the same way

Since every time I see you, you just quotient out
The faithful image that I map into
But when we’re one-to-one you’ll see what I’m about
‘Cause we’re a finite simple group of order two

Our equivalence was stable,
A principal love bundle sitting deep inside
But then you drove a wedge between our two-forms
Now everything is so complexified

When we first met, we simply connected
My heart was open but too dense
Our system was already directed
To have a finite limit, in some sense

I’m living in the kernel of a rank-one map
From my domain, its image looks so blue,
‘Cause all I see are zeroes, it’s a cruel trap
But we’re a finite simple group of order two

I’m not the smoothest operator in my class,
But we’re a mirror pair, me and you,
So let’s apply forgetful functors to the past
And be a finite simple group, a finite simple group,
Let’s be a finite simple group of order two
(Oughter: “Why not three?”)

I’ve proved my proposition now, as you can see,
So let’s both be associative and free
And by corollary, this shows you and I to be
Purely inseparable. Q. E. D.

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Dean Glenn Hubbard – Every Breath You Take (from Dan), a parody music video of Police – Every Breath You Take. This was done by the Follies Student Comedy Revue, a group of students at Columbia Business School.

Lyrics (from CBS Follies):

Every breath you take
Every change of rate
Jobs you don’t create
While we still stagflate
I’ll be watching you

Every single day
Bernanke takes my pay
When growth goes away
Inflation will stay
I’ll be watching you

Oh can’t you see?
The Fed’s where I should be
How my poor heart aches
With each of your mistakes

First you move your lips
Hike a few more BPS
When demand then dips
And the yield curve flips
I’ll be watching you

Since you came supply’s lost without a trace
I dream at night that I punch you in the face
Your interest policies I cannot embrace
I feel so wronged and I long for Greenspan’s place
I keep cryin’: Benny! Benny! Please…

Oh can’t you see?
The Fed Chair should be me
How my poor heart aches
When prices escalate

Every move you make
Every oath you take
Hope your models break
Bet that beard is fake
I’ll be watching you

CBS is great
Wouldn’t change my fate
But we’ll be watching you
We’ll be watching you

At first, I didn’t know wht BPS is, but it turns out to stand for basis point: A basis point (bp or ‱) is 0.01% and is often used in the context of interest rates.

Just realized CBS stood for Columbia Business School and not the TV channel Columbia Broadcasting System. I also didn’t know who Bernanke was and it turns out he’s the new Alan Greenspan, I mean Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve (“the Fed”).

Cops Lose $31K After Tossing Broken Desk – More than $31,000 in drug money seized by Somerville police now is buried forever under tons of garbage in a Rochester, N.H., landfill after officers accidentally stashed the cash in a broken desk drawer that was being discarded.

I always thought it was funny when something like this happens. Does that mean $31,000 just mysteriously disappear from circulation? What happened to that money? Does the government replace that money by printing $31K worth of new bills?

I mean nowadays, money is mostly virtual. Most of my money are seen as digits on my online statement in my bank and brokerage account. I’ll probably never see that amount in cash. I probably use about $100-200 in cash a month. Economics and money flow is a funny thing, which never really made logical sense to me. Above that, there’s the world economy with the annual import and export exchanges.

Referring back to the article above, the money is now deep inside a super dense compact waste, probably never going to ever see the light of day again before it decomposes. Can’t the federal goverment just add this amount of fund electronically to the Police Department’s account provided they were able to prove that they had $31K. I guess the proving part is the hard part, but what is money really if it’s no longer accessible?

This actually reminds me of what happened in Speed Grapher:

So this corrupted society of Japan, where the people who govern the country are into these weird fetishes and abuse their power. It turns out this was all part of Suitengu’s revenge. Suitengu saw both his parents hung because they didn’t have enough money to pay back. The 5 yr old sister was taken away for prostitution and he was sold to some armed forces as a soldier.

Suitenguu’s plan was to overtake the largest company in Japan, liquidate all its assets, convert them to cash, and burn all the cash. He does succeed and we’re talking about trillions of dollars here. Imagine what would happen to the economy. I mean literally trillions of dollars are no longer in circulation. What can the government do at this point?

This brings back to the main question. If I was able to accumulate a large sum of money (millions, billions, or even trillions – imaginarily speaking) and burn all of it and dump it to the bottom of the ocean or somehow make it disappear off the face of the earth, should the economy be shattered because of this. I mean, it’s quite easy to approximate the amount of money I had, however should that amount of money be given back to me (virtually) or be returned to the government, but would that be the correct thing to do?

The only solution I can think of is to recall all current currency, issue new currency, and the amount that is ‘lost’ will get reissued. If older bills appear in the market later in the game, the government would just absorb that as a loss.

Until our society no longer depends on tangible objects to make transactions, I don’t think this problem would ever be solved.

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Random Crap:

I’m thinking of teaching you guys a new Japanese word/phrase every time I post a random crap post. That’d be fun and I can reinforce my Japanese too. Today’s word is: 泥棒 (dorobou) – thief, burgular, robber, theft. I hear this word so often in Detective Conan. Hehe.

How “Daddy” affects your job – In “The Father Factor,” Stephan Poulter lists five styles of fathers — super-achieving, time bomb, passive, absent and compassionate/mentor — who have powerful influences on the careers of their sons and daughters. … Children of the “time-bomb” father, for example, who explodes in anger at his family, learn how to read people and their moods. Those intuitive abilities make them good at such jobs as personnel managers or negotiators, he writes. But those same children may have trouble feeling safe and developing trust, said Poulter, a clinical psychologist who also works with adolescents in Los Angeles area schools. Sounds like an interesting read.

Police train rats to sniff out landmines – The smartest rat among the first six that the government is teaching to locate explosive devices planted by leftist rebels, she has a 90 percent success rate in locating explosive material in her laboratory training maze. Instead of spending millions to train rats to find mines, wouldn’t it be cheaper to release thousands or millions of rats into a minefield and let them blow up? Just kidding. ;p

Austria’s Grasser sues German publisher over photo-lawyer – Michael Rami said the picture that showed a bare-chested Grasser reclining in a holiday resort with his wife’s head just below his waist was a violation of Austrian privacy laws. He said the lawsuit was filed on Monday in a Vienna state court. … The newspaper wrote in a headline beneath the picture published on Friday that Grasser’s wife Fiona Swarovski was “searching for the crown jewels of the Finance Minister.”

This explains a lot… – More than 60 percent of Britons use items such as screwdrivers, scissors and earrings to remove food from between their teeth, according to a survey published Friday. … More than 60 percent questioned by the British Dental Health Foundation said they used makeshift items, including knives, keys, needles and forks. The survey also found that 23 percent of people chose to leave food stuck between their teeth, increasing the risk of gum disease and bad breath, according to the foundation which promotes oral health. Personally, I pick my teeth with anything handy. Sometimes that involves biting off my own fingernail and picking my teeth with that. However, I never pick my teeth because of “oral hygiene or health”, but because leaving chunks of meat between my teeth irritates and annoys me. If it doesn’t irritate me, I’d usually find it the next morning when I take a bath.

Bash Quote #486349 (from Tera):

<Man_Loner> I had the best masturbation ever today too
<Man_Loner> I had the magazine open in front of me, at a really great picture
<Man_Loner> My eyes were rolling back in my head
<Man_Loner> I let out a deep moan
<Man_Loner> And then the man in the shop asked “Are you going to buy that?”

Shanghai Preparing for ‘Human Zoo’ (from Cari) – Shanghai is getting set to open a “human zoo.” Four Australian men will live in a glass box on a downtown mall for two weeks in June, with the public able to watch them sleeping, eating and bathing, a news report said Thursday. … “People like to watch them taking a shower, so they have to shower at least two times a day,” Chang said. “Of course, one can’t see the key parts, because there is nontransparent glass in the bathroom.” What exactly is nontransparent glass? Something you can’t see through or does it really mean semi-transparent glass where at least you can make out the shape… of the body. Regarding that, there was a funny conversation Cari and I had:

Cari: i like how they phrased it… “key parts”
Cari: haha
Krunk: shower twice a day = 8 showers
Krunk: lets say mall opens between 8am to 12am
Krunk: that’s 16 hours
Krunk: so bath ever 2 hours ;p
Krunk: i wonder what’s so interesting of watching them shower
Krunk: since it’s nontransparent glass
Krunk: i’m guess that just means everythign is blurry
Krunk: but you can still make out the shape
Cari: lol
Cari: who knows…
Cari: haha
Krunk: i didnt mean the shape of that!
Krunk: i mean their body
Cari: lol
Cari: i wasn’t implying that
Cari: haha
Krunk: hehe

Energy crisis? Venezuela gas is cheaper than water – Taxi driver Jaime Tinoco works the streets of Caracas in a 1976 Chevy Nova that guzzles 19 gallons (72 liters) of gas a day. But he doesn’t worry about fuel efficiency — filling his tank costs just $2.30. While U.S. consumers struggle with soaring energy prices, Venezuela’s gas is now the world’s cheapest at 12 cents a gallon and Washington’s regional foe, President Hugo Chavez, vows to maintain subsidies that keep fuel dirt-cheap. – Time to move to Venezuela? I heard they have nice beaches too!

A FAA Radar track sequence of a FedEx aircraft getting into Memphis as thunderstorms pass over the airport (from Deadlock) – funny video of how FedEx planes move about when there’s a storm. They look like little flies trying avoid poison gas.

You DO NOT laugh when this Japanese man tries to speak English (from Deadlock) – I think this is a TV game show where guests or actors dressed as students and watch a program trying to teach them English and the point of this game show is not to laugh. Obviously this isn’t really a educational video, but something made up to make you laugh. I survived the first part, but broke up multiple times when he started counting nubmers. Just thinking how he says 20 just cracks me up! And be careful of 100, my stomach was hurting so bad.

Booth babes back despite restrictions – Are booth babes really necessary at a trade show like E3 (which is closed to the public)? Your typical E3 attendee is a journalist or industry player, likely male, and probably a big fan video games. He’s also into technology and consumer electronics. Yes, it’s the same demographic that likes to look at attractive women in skimpy outfits, but is a gamer going to ignore the EA or Rockstar exhibits because there are no women to objectify there? I don’t think so. Ultimately, booth babes are there because show-goers expect them to be there. After all, it’s a video game expo, and scantily clad women (usually with unrealistic proportions) are a fixture of video games, so why not dress women up to look like the characters?

If you’re easily offended by stereotype/racist jokes, I implore you to not enlarge the following images (from Esca). These are images that label certain areas of San Francisco and Los Angeles:

If you look at the Los Angeles Chart where it says China, Vietnam, Japan, you can see Monterey Park (my hometown) right smack in the middle of it.

From /. Comment #15301879 and deviantART: Miru: Journal:

A physics professor and his assistant are working on liberating negatively charged hydroxyl ions, when all of a sudden, the assistant says, “Wait, Professor! What if the salicylic acids do not accept the hydroxyl ions?” And the professor responds, “That’s no hydroxyl ion! That’s my wife!”
-Joke from Dexter’s Laboratory

I’ve always wanted to understand this joke, from many years ago. @___@;;;
I was reminded of this joke today when we talked about hydroxyls in biology and chemistry. :XD:

To liberate is to set free. The point of this joke is that it’s saying that a negatively charged hydroxyl ion is equivalent to a professor’s wife. Hydroxyls, which contain at least one hydroxide (-OH), are alcohols. Does the joke mean the wife is drunk?
I then researched salicyclic acids and I found out that salicyclic acid is a plant hormone used as a medicine for acne. More importantly, it is a carboxylic acid. We learned in biology today that an ester linkage is formed between a carboxyl and a hydroxyl, and in this case, salicylic acid and hydroxyl ions create aspirin, the pain reliever.
Now isn’t that cool? 😀
Lastly, the hydroxyl ion is NEGATIVELY charged, so the wife has had an excess of alcohol.
Basically, therefore, the professor was only trying to give some aspirin to his wife, who has a hangover.
ROTFLMAO.

Teen Says Friend Asked to Be Hit With Car – A 17-year-old boy who police said asked a friend to hit him with a car “for fun” was still hospitalized Tuesday with a broken leg. Sigh…

Just call me Dolph – Bottlenose dolphins can call each other by name when they whistle, making them the only animals besides humans known to recognize such identity information, scientists reported on Monday. Dolphins just got smarter! Or maybe we just realized they were smarter.

A great incentive to succeed the next time… – A German man who unsuccessfully tried to kill himself by jumping in front of a train must pay compensation for the damage he caused, a court in the southern city of Munich ruled Tuesday. … For repairs to the train and lost wages for the driver, Munich municipal authorities sued for damages of some 4,200 euros ($5,325). The court ordered the man to pay half the sum.

So I had emailed the DOE (Department of Energy) requesting data regarding the production of crude oil before I started researching elsewhere for data:

Would you have the past few years of Top World Oil Producers records:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/topworldtables1_2.html

I’m doing a research on oil and petroleum and this data would be extremely helpful to me.

I was only able to find the year 2004 data.

Thanks!

I got a reply back yesterday:

Thank you for your inquiry to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), www.eia.doe.gov.

I apologize for the delay in responding.

We have all world oil producers for all years previous to 1980 at http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableg2.xls. The link opens up an Excel spreadsheet. All you have to do is use Excel’s sort function to get them in order from greatest to least for any particular year.

I hope this is still helpful.

Indeed the Excel spreadsheet was quite informative. I’ve redrawn my charts.

Top 3 Oil Producing Countries from 1980 to 2003 (since there’s a big gap between the 3rd and 4th):

Oil Producing Countries above 1 million barrels per day from 1980 to 2003:

Do note that USSR falls off the chart after 1991 and Russia’s graph begins in 1992 as you know that the USSR was dissolved in 1991. So the USSR was the top oil producing country/region (not sure if you can call that a country) from 1980 to 1991. When they disassembled, Russia continued the line with about a drop of 2 million barrels per day. The drop continued, but as the graph shows, it hit its low in 1996 and started climbing up again, beating United States in 2004 (the new graph doesn’t have this information), but you can see it in my previous post. United States have just slowly declined as we start to run out of new places to drill and existing oil drills are running out of oil. Saudi Arabia has just continued to keep on climbing, which is quite amazing.

So United States was the top oil producing country from 1992 to 1997, loses to Saudi Arabia in 1998, retakes its leadership in 1999, but has remained at #2 since 2000 onwards and now has dropped to #3 as Russia surpasses our daily oil production.

Just something interesting I thought I’d share.