The Off Topic Topic

[Pedrito]

What sort of small plant can handle somewhat erratic watering and at most indirect light while not looking like some shitty weed that needs to be poisoned to death?  Any ideas?  I want to find a use for my former ashtray (before it became my ashtray, a doomed bonsai tree lived/suffered in it), since the whole quitting smoking thing appears to have finally....stuck.  Or at least it has for a week now with only the occasional murderous rage and/or extremely intense craving for just one more.  Like right now, for example.  Heh.

Edit:  It's a bowl about 6" across and 2" deep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succulent
http://www.floridanaturepictures.com/cacti/cacti.html

small cacti, if correctly treated, can make wonderful flowers, too.

L.

[Grey Fox]

And what do you do again?

The point is, it is far easier to find a job in Hong Kong than in Canada or the US

Yet you are an office clerk?

Office clerk living in a box > unemployed and homeless

We have this thing call "social network" around here. No job != homeless.

[Neil]

Why Hong Kong > North America

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13721414&source=features_box4

Except it clearly doesn't.

[Josquius]

Damn, I overslept and now have a headache

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

And what do you do again?

The point is, it is far easier to find a job in Hong Kong than in Canada or the US

If you work in the finance industry.

[Malthus]

The appeal at least that I found was male cameraderie.  There really aren't any women in the place except for ones who are 'working'.  Its a chance for men to be men, drink, and perhaps be a bit obnoxious.

Sounds like a place to conduct a "bromance". 

[Ed Anger]

Sounds like a place to conduct a "bromance". 

[Zanza]

Even slums are on top of highrises in Hong Kong...

[lustindarkness]

Is that mon's flat?

[Grey Fox]

Gawd, I have trouble keeping my self awake here.

[Malthus]

Sounds like a place to conduct a "bromance". 

I was hoping for that.

[Barrister]

The appeal at least that I found was male cameraderie.  There really aren't any women in the place except for ones who are 'working'.  Its a chance for men to be men, drink, and perhaps be a bit obnoxious.

Sounds like a place to conduct a "bromance". 

[PDH]

I was hoping for that.

Troll

[lustindarkness]

Old but good one (FWD email).

HELL – AS EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry midterm.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well: 
 
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant thereof.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. 

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. 

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose. 

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. 

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.' 


THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+. 

PDH, student of yours?

[jimmy olsen]

  Brilliant!