Update-Bits

[packbat]

Too little stuff for a complete update*, but a few funny things:

• The guy (vaguely African-seeming, but I wouldn't really know) who said he was 'good at math', but needed help with 'translations'. 'Translations', in this case, being along the lines of:
  

  Fill in the blank with the appropriate word phrase: "a - b" means b ______ a.

  
  I begged off, saying I had to finish my art assignment^†, and gave him directions to the mathematics building^‡.
  
• My ankles hurt so much afterwards, I could barely move.
  
• What does the question of whether you can know something absolutely as a truth have to do with abortion? No, I'm serious, I still can't figure that one out.
  
• If a bank can lend out 90% of the money deposited therein, adding $100 to the bank's lending stock adds $1000 to circulation by a simple geometric series (r = 0.9) ... if all the money in circulation is redeposited deposited in the bank. So, what is the point of this exercise, exactly? And why are the business students still being tested on it?
  
• "At schema yourself resemblant". There – now I've posted a nonsensical spam subject line too.

Ta!

* Says the guy who just posted a one-line update consisting of a single link.^§
† Which means this probably occurred Sunday afternoon.
‡ He'd actually started off asking for directions, then asked me if I could help him solve the problems. I carefully refused to sit in his car out of the cold while I looked at his stuff.
§ Which, incidentally, has both shown me a whole lot of tracks I might be interested in, and that I know nothing about electronic music at all. Neither of which surprised me. I was glad to see that "synth pop" was the correct category for Eurythmics, though.