Zhanga: March 20, 2004

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Saturday, March 20, 2004 (13 comments)

I wish to comment on Pat's newest Xanga entry about Taiwan and its associated comments.

Let's start with what appears to be a copy/pasted article. First, I would like to begin with the usual:

Ok, so then on to the actual thing:

China, which claims Taiwan is part of its territory and insists the two should be unified...

The diction in this collection of words (particularly the words claims and insists) ludicrously suggests the possibility that Taiwan is, in fact, not a Chinese province.

Now, the comments:

China >>>>>>>> Taiwan^1000000000
Posted 3/19/2004 at 11:55 AM by GurLieGurL4eVA

There's a problem here in that the numerical scale is not given. There are two possible scenarios:

1. China is a large positive number c and Taiwan is a very small positive number t < 1 if the scale runs from 0 to some arbitrarily high positive number (a scale such as 0..100 or 0..1000 or 0..∞). In this case, t^1000000000 would be almost zero, and so c would indeed be much greater.
2. The other possibility is that the scale ranges from an arbitrarily low negative number to a similarly large positive number. So for example, perhaps the scale goes from -100 to 100, or maybe -∞ to +∞. In this case, t would be near the lower end, while c would be at the upper end. However, because 1000000000 is a positive number, t^1000000000 would be a huge positive number, far larger than c, and thus falsifying the inequality.

i hope china invades taiwan
Posted 3/19/2004 at 4:23 PM by nik3lbak

taiwan should try to invade china
Posted 3/20/2004 at 9:12 PM by dragos2005

Well, let's see. We are treating "China" and "Taiwan" as separate entities here. Why? Taiwan is a subset of China, dummies. So because Taiwan cannot invade itself (invading China would involve invading itself as well), it can only invade that part of China which is not Taiwan. We know this as "the mainland." So it should be "I hope the mainland sends troops to Taiwan" for Gene. Remember, you do not invade what you own. And as for Dragos, I think he meant "Taiwan should try to rebel against the mainland." Unsuccessfully is implied and therefore not needed.

you racist fucks
Posted 3/19/2004 at 7:04 PM by Johnwayne771

Who the fuck are you?

As a clarification, the #2 below refers to the fact that this is the second time that these words have shown up here (first was science bowl). They do not mean that we are #2 champions. I would be too embarrassed to say anything if that had happened......

11:58PM

HELL YES!

STATE CHAMPIONS!! (#2)

Just back from the varsity academic bowl trip. First victory since 1995! However, for some reason, this is not as exciting as the prospect of getting free TI-84's.

Old Granny Alice says hi to her kids (Charles & CiCi) after doing very well in the tournament. Milton was 2nd, and she owned.

We played pretty well in the preliminary rounds, and then in the playoffs we owned (I drank Coke to go with my lunch pizza). In the prelims, we lost to Chattahoochee somehow. Well, it's kind of (very) embarrassing. We were 20 points behind on the last question, then Chattahoochee buzzes in early and misses it. So we're about to win on that last question (30 points max), when I fall asleep on the buzzer... and it buzzes, and I have not a clue what the answer (or question) is. So we lose.

This is the story as Mr. Edelstein and Yujing know it. They were reading and scorekeeping in another room, so they didn't get to watch that game. Although it is certainly believable (come on, it involves me falling asleep at inopportune times... how much more convincing could a story be?), it isn't true. They don't know this yet though, so don't tell them. I wonder if this story will spread around school until it becomes a chompy telling me "Hey I heard that some moron made the academic bowl team lose by falling asleep on the buzzer." I can't wait to hear this.

Before the tournament, during school hours on Friday, I called people's cell phones. I totally owned Eva, but luckily Ms. Harrison didn't do anything about it. McLeod picked up and had a 20 minute conversation with me during 2nd period. She also supposedly set Charles's ring to loud, but I called him and nothing happened. Then McLeod calls me back and talks for 15 more minutes next period. Why does Ronjon not have a cell phone?

Friday afternoon, Pat, Yujing, Dragos, and I played Frisbee. Pat ran (yes, ran) into a stationary object (me) and shouldered its left eye. Made me have worse-than-normal vision for a few minutes. Then he asked, "hey what was that popping sound?" It was pretty loud to me, considering that it originated in my eye socket.

Right after that, we went to a dollar store. I looked all over the place for a pelican, but that store is useless. It had all sorts of little plastic and ceramic animals, even a bunch of birds, but neither pelicans nor any other big-beaked bird (super alliteration). It did have various guns (aka plastic projectile launchers), and we got some. Our room consisted of Dragos, Yujing, Evan, and me. Dragos and Yujing shot each other from opposite sides of the room till like 3AM while Evan tried to sleep. Evan was extremely pleased with this. We slept sometime before 4.

Before we fell asleep, and as we played hearts, a conversation which should not have happened happened. Damnit, Yujing. You and your lame guesses. I'm going to drill you so hard that my corkscrew will come out the other side of your skull. Or maybe not a corkscrew. How about a dremel with glass fragments attached? I haven't even thought about what I'm going to do about you suction cup gunning me in the left eye, which was already owned by then.

I think this is the first overnight trip during which I didn't sleep with Yujing. Dragos got into bed with him really quickly (lol). So I was stuck with Evan (not lol). But we/Yujing were/was being so loud and obnoxious that as soon as I got onto the bed Evan went to the floor. A bed all to myself? That was a first.

As we practiced before round 1, we made highly obscene jokes in the typical fashion. Then as soon as we finished laughing about one, which I think was about Pat (can't remember, unfortunately), the answer to the next question was bonsai. Bonsai = bones Ai, as in Pat bones Ai. Now, I have nothing to do with this! It was all Jason and Bobby. But this was hysterical and is going to keep coming up for another few weeks.

Sorry about the site being dead. I think what happened is that the power went out, then my grandpa tried to turn on too many things at the same time in this room, and the breaker tripped. Then I came home, reset it, and it went off again. So I'm going to be relocating several machines soon, to a different circuit in the house.

I love my emag grade because it makes SO much sense:

This is getting a bit unruly, and so I think I'll stop now. I'll end by asking if anyone's interested in going to the AIME practice session tomorrow at Paideia. You don't even have to be taking the AIME this year. All that's required is that you want to do challenging (and did I mention fun?) math problems.

And pornographic mad libs are really DUMB. Who gets bored enough to do those? Even worse, who writes them?!?

9:43PM

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