Today is February 14th, Valentine’s Day. Lets hope you have someone to celebrate it with, and if you don’t - then I hope you don’t want anyone to celebrate it with!

So what are you doing today?

We’ll be spending it at Mishka’s workplace. Yes, that’s right. She worked until midnight last night, had to get in by 8am this morning, but at 8pm tonight we’ll be back once more for an event called the “Tunnel Of Love”. There’s a large tunnel you can walk through with fish and such swimming back and forth - and tonight there will be tables there.
Although she didn’t manage to snag us a discount, she did tell me she personally put us down at the prime location in said tunnel - I shall bring the camera tonight and snap some shots! So we’re getting a “Unique dinner for two under a canopy of sharks” - a first for me.
Oh, and about an hour ago or so she should have been visited by a quartet to serenade her - much to her embarrassment. Well, at least I hope she did - she hasn’t called or emailed yet. I can’t wait to see the polaroid, mwahaha!

And I shall end this entry with the most appropriate news story, considering the holiday:

Internet sex auction sparks paternity row - A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who’s the father.

I woke up to a beautiful snowfall today - I didn’t take a picture, so go see JACC’s to see what I mean. Hope you folks got everything you wished for. Besides the previous gifts, I was given a $100 giftcert to ThinkGeek.Com (Which I’ve been asking for for 7 years now), $50 to the iTunes store, a Charles Bukowski book, a book written by a monk called “The Art of Power“, and some lovely framed photos.

This is my favorite time of the year to come to work. The traffic is very light, the offices are empty and I get a ton of work finished. I don’t know why anyone would want to take a vacation now, when we get two 4 day weekends in a row. More power to ‘em though!

Here’s hoping you got everything you wished for!

Here’s a few math jokes, just for the hell of it:

A mathematician, an engineer and a chemist are at a conference. They are staying in adjoining rooms. One evening they are downstairs in the bar. The mathematician goes to bed first. The chemist goes next, followed a minute or two later by the engineer. The chemist notices that in the corridor outside their rooms a rubbish bin is ablaze. There is a bucket of water nearby. The chemist starts concocting a means of generating carbon dioxide in order to create a makeshift extinguisher but before he can do so the engineer arrives, dumps the water on the fire and puts it out. The next morning the chemist and engineer tell the mathematician about the fire. He admits he saw it. They ask him why he didn’t put it out. He replies contemptuously “there was a fire and a bucket of water: a solution obviously existed.”

 

A mathematician, a biologist and a physicist are sitting in a street café watching people entering and leaving the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people entering the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three people leaving the house. The physicist says, “The measurement wasn’t accurate.” The biologist says, “They must have reproduced.” The mathematician says, “If one more person enters the house then it will be empty.”

A sociologist, a physicist and a mathematician are all given equal amounts of fencing, and are asked to enclose the greatest area. The sociologist pauses for a moment and decides to enclose a square area with his fence. The physicist, realizing he can fence off a greater amount of land with the same amount of fencing, promptly sets his fence in the form of a circle, and smiles. “I’d like to see you beat that!” he says to the mathematician. The mathematician, in response, takes a very small piece of his own fencing, and wraps it around himself, proclaiming, “I define my location to be outside of the fence!”

Parents, please pay attention to what your kids want - and the specifics, not just a basic overview. If you wonder why, well, Tscully’s tale will help put it all into perspective:

<Tscully> It’s Christmas. We show up at my grandmas house. I’m 14.
<Tscully> It comes time to open the presents, she brings out this little square-shaped flat present, wrapped in christmas paper.
<Tscully> I wonder what it is, what joyous gift from grandma could be so small in volume?
<Tscully> I open it, and see the words “AOL Internet Trial CD” on the cover of a cardboard disc holder, with a 14-day AOL trial CD inside.
<Tscully> Confused, I asked her what it was.
<Tscully> She proudly proclaimed “I’ve bought you fourteen days of free internet!”
<Tscully> And that’s why I hate christmas.

Personally¹ , I wish I could find out where to buy multiple copies of this book - because with a title this great, who could resist?

1. If you’d like to buy me something, my list is right here. Now go! [↩]