All categories - 29 November 2006

Maths. Adding and subtracting. Multiplication. Division. Factors. Equations. It's all quite beautiful, if you're that way inclined.

In the US, Maths is called Math. It is singular. Here in Britain we have many forms of Maths. Across the Atlantic they only have one. I don't know what that says about the disparity between our cultures. It probably says very little, but then again, I'm not a linguist.

Everything nowadays runs on binary. That's just zeroes and ones. Two digits that rule the world.

001100000 0000110000 01100000110 0111111110
001100000 0001111000 01100000110 0110000000
001100000 0011001100 00110001100 0111111110
001100000 0011001100 00110001100 0110000000
001111110 0001111000 00011011000 0110000000
001111110 0000110000 00001110000 0111111110

Yes, Maths is probably the answer to all of life's problems. Man turned to science because he was sick of the ambiguity of art. Art can be anything. That's the whole point of it, apparently. Think of the sleek beauty of binary....everything is either a zero or a one...no shades of grey, no awkward decimals or possibilities. It is beautiful because it is true. I think an artist of some kind once said truth was beauty. He was wrong, but it was a lovely idea. He probably lived before calculators we invented, so we can forgive his human errors.

Think of the ridiculous forms that man has invented in the pursuit of art: ice-dance, mime, synchronised swimming, the saxophone... and so many more. Why? Is it really so vital that we express ourselves. I think the world would probably be a better place with less self-expression. I know this is anathema to western culture, where we're supposed to encourage children to make self-portraits out of clay and tell autistic wrecks that the inky blobs they have drawn is art, but perhaps the world would be a better place with more self-repression.

Remember: Hitler was an amateur artist, not a weekend mathematician.

It would be lovely to think that there was a formula or equation underpinning our existence; that we could guarantee happiness by following a set pattern; that all our spiritual and moral ambiguities could be annihilated with a giant calculator.

Imagine Moses on the top of Mount Sinai, speaking in his booming voice to the Children of Israel. Rather than holding two tablets of stone he clutches in his hands two large CASIO calculators. On both of them is a number of wondrous holy significance.

Sadly, in his hurry to hand the words (or numbers) of God to mankind, Moses is carrying the calculators upside down and the number appears as a word: BOOBIES.

That is where mankind goes wrong. If only we had chosen numbers instead of words. It's numbers that you can count on. Words just take us to the ends of sentences.

2006-11-29 02:53:12 · 5 answers · asked by rabbit0102030 3 in Psychology

2006-11-29 02:53:08 · 6 answers · asked by Debs H 1 in Other - Italy

2006-11-29 02:53:05 · 8 answers · asked by jaya pandi 1 in Newborn & Baby

I LOVE God more than I believe in him. I have to be honest with myself. I feel drawn to God, and I love God, but at the same time, I'm not even sure if he exists.
Shame on me.

2006-11-29 02:53:02 · 22 answers · asked by WHITE TRASH ARMENIAN 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-29 02:52:55 · 5 answers · asked by Jacek Reczek 1 in Psychology

Basically I went into a store and gave a lovely female my number on a piece of paper i dint get to talk to her for long as she was at work. Straight away there was a connection and she foned me a couple of days later shes told me she is kinda with someone but seems to be keen on me. Doers this mean she might not have a partner after all and wants to get to know mw to see if i am a serious guy?

2006-11-29 02:52:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

Linsay, Paris, and Brittney?

2006-11-29 02:52:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

2006-11-29 02:52:48 · 14 answers · asked by ROBIN C 2 in Singles & Dating

I have a project at school, and I have to write about football...can someone tell me some stuff about football?

2006-11-29 02:52:43 · 3 answers · asked by aVy 1 in Football (American)

2006-11-29 02:52:42 · 4 answers · asked by amol p 1 in Trivia

2006-11-29 02:52:37 · 23 answers · asked by olamide a 1 in Movies

2006-11-29 02:52:37 · 19 answers · asked by nen1 1 in Pregnancy

Who will be the next out of the jungle? I say Dean. Who will the final 3 be - I say David, Jason and Myleene. Who will win? I say Jason. Any comments on this particular series - maybe on Ant and Dec or some of those who've already been and gone? I personally think Ant and Dec are funnier than ever - maybe I've just warmed to them - and there seemed to be a nicer bunch of people in camp this time around too

2006-11-29 02:52:35 · 11 answers · asked by big pup in a small bath 4 in Television

sodexho is a cafe located on georgia coledge campus in milledgeville georgia

2006-11-29 02:52:33 · 2 answers · asked by leila m 1 in Atlanta

in western culture we obbsessed with youth, and its seems we'd do any thing to stay 'looking young', but this is not the same in other cultures. where is growing old concidered to be a good thing

2006-11-29 02:52:29 · 7 answers · asked by ladyshy9 1 in Other - Beauty & Style

Aww, snap. He didn't just say that did he?

Yes I did. I don't accept it. I don't believe in it.

Now what?

2006-11-29 02:52:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

yes yes
please
say yes!!!!!

2006-11-29 02:52:19 · 22 answers · asked by Shakira 3 in Polls & Surveys

2006-11-29 02:52:18 · 21 answers · asked by LMAO! 4 in Polls & Surveys

I cannot figure this out, maybe someone else can help...anyone work as a driver for FED EX or UPS???

Why is is that you can HAND a ground package to any driver and they will take it to the hub but you cannot put ground packages in the drop box???? I mean, you can STAND next to the drop box and hand your packages to the driver but you cannot put them in the box that the driver is emptying...but yet, the driver ends up with the package anyways....is it because ground packages are usually heavy??? Because I ship daily and I ship out next day packages that weigh 40 - 50 lbs and I drop them in the drop box...and I've shipped ground packages that weigh a pound...

This is driving me nuts!!! Anyone with an answer, please help!!!!!

2006-11-29 02:52:18 · 2 answers · asked by gabbygyrl02 2 in Other - Business & Finance

2006-11-29 02:52:17 · 5 answers · asked by panda 1 in Sociology

to get you started i have many:
...walking into a glass door - twice in the same day
...throwing up out of my boyfriends window
...asking my 60 year old teacher what "frig" meant n sitting down with him for about 20 minutes whilest he described it
...smacking myself in the face with a 10 foot rope - infrount of bout 50 people
you get the gist! now tel me yours!!!!

2006-11-29 02:52:12 · 15 answers · asked by katie-pie 2 in Jokes & Riddles

vote for a boy name from the list, they are first and middle names (no I'm not having a baby. I just love names. These are real names. Just want you to vote for a name)

Reese Taylor
Chase Dylan
Marty Abraham
Scott Riley
Eric Miguel
Fernando Ginataan
Raul Mortimer
Jude Wyatt
Noah Oliver
Harrison Gavin

2006-11-29 02:52:10 · 22 answers · asked by Pedro Xavier Ramirez 2 in Polls & Surveys

2006-11-29 02:52:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I'm trying to convert a hand crank meat grinder into an electric one. I know that the motor and grinder need to be connected by 2 pulleys and a wheel. The motor I have is 1/3 HP, 3450 rpms and comes from a dishwasher. There is some kind of coil in the wiring before the current gets to the motor. Do I need this coil/capacitor for the motor to work or can I just splice the motor to an electric cord and add an on/off switch? I just want to make an electric meat grinder and want to know how to properly make the motor turn.

2006-11-29 02:51:59 · 5 answers · asked by paul67337 7 in Engineering

I find it really rude.

2006-11-29 02:51:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Full of intrigue or settled on a farm? Saving or taking lives? Romance and/or regret? Who amongst us is a spy?

I'm a temp... by day. But by night? ^_~

2006-11-29 02:51:52 · 6 answers · asked by Masta Batang Dollar Billz 5 in Polls & Surveys

2006-11-29 02:51:51 · 18 answers · asked by Jlynn 1 in Other - Skin & Body

The Holy Quran : Chapter: 2 (Al-Baqarah), Verse:137
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[2:137] Say ye, 'We believe in God and what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob and his children, and what was given to Moses and Jesus, and what was given to all other Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them; and to Him we submit ourselves.'

2006-11-29 02:51:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-29 02:51:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Medicine