A life cannot be saved. All we can try is to delay a death.
To save a life
July 20th, 2010Up (2009)
July 17th, 2010Young Ellie: [to a young Carl] You don’t talk much.
[pause]
Young Ellie: I like you!
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
July 15th, 2010(Author’s Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch.)
McKenzie: Hey, maybe you should write a book.
Tom: What?
McKenzie: Well, you know, Henry Miller said the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
July 13th, 2010Cristina: What’s in Oviedo?
Juan Antonio: I go to see a sculpture, that is very inspiring to me. A very beautiful sculpture. You will love it.
Vicky: Oh, right. you’re asking us to fly to Oviedo and back.
Juan Antonio: Mmmm. No, we’ll spend the weekend. I mean, I’ll show you around the city, and we’ll eat well. We’ll drink good wine. We’ll make love.
Vicky: Yeah, who exactly is going to make love?
Juan Antonio: Hopefully, the three of us.
Whatever works (2009)
July 10th, 2010“Whatever works” (2009) is a comedy by Woody Allen with comedian Larry David in the leading role.
Boris Yellnikoff: That’s why I can’t say enough times, whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can filch or provide, every temporary measure of grace, whatever works.
First interpolating approximation problem
July 6th, 2010D. Levin, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Tel-Aviv University argued in his 2003 paper “Mesh-Independent Surface Interpolation”
The earliest reference to this problem [, approximating the projection of a set of data points onto a manifold,] is in the book of Genesis: “Let there be a firmament between the water to divide waters from waters”, that is the manifold. “Let there be lights in the firmament”, these are the points. Then, “God set them in heaven’s firmament”, i.e., a projection procedure has been used.
End of her political career
July 1st, 2010About.com’s article on the “Victorian Period – A Time of Change” points out
The Victorian Period revolves around the political career of Queen Victoria. She was crowned in 1837 and died in 1901 (which put a definite end to her political career).
So basically, death is nature’s way to vote an incumbent monarch out.
So now you are not neutral, are you?
June 16th, 2010After Spain’s shock defeat against Switzerland in the World Cup, and despite it may be begging the question, but why are Switzerland playing in the first place? Shouldn’t they remain neutral and just provide the referees?
Carrot steak anyone?
June 3rd, 2010During World War II, the Government had authority to take possession of any meat product or livestock to feed the starving country. But the dons of Magdalen College at the time weren’t about to let a little thing like that interfere with the fine-breeding of their deer living happily in their Deer Park.
So what did they do? Got in contact with their friends in high places and (in 1939 apparently) had them reclassified as vegetables.
“Odd-ford?”, The Oxford Student, 56(6):19, 27 May 2010.
Two takes on a sandwich
April 26th, 2010At Barajas Airport, Spain, the lady at the till frowns and asks “That sandwich’s all you are having, right?”.
At Luton Airport, England, the guy at the till asks “How can I help you?” and smiles when you approach him with a sandwich.