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Mental Hospital Phone Menu

2006-06-23T02:31:00.000-07:00

Hello and thank you for calling The State Mental Hospital.
Please select from the following options menu:

If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.

If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be forwarded to the MotherShip.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press,nothing will make you happy anyway.

If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.

If you are bipolar, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.

If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.

If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. Our operators are too busy to talk with you.

If you are menopausal, put the guns down, hang up, turn on the fan, lie down and cry. You won't be crazy forever.

If you are blonde, don't press any buttons, you'll just mess it up anyhow."

Beauty Of Maths

2006-06-23T00:15:00.000-07:00

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Beauty of Maths!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

Brilliant, isn't it? And finally, take a look at this symmetry:
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

Earthshine: The Da Vinci GLOW

2006-06-12T23:01:00.000-07:00

Leonardo Da Vinci. He is undoubtedly one of the most known persons of our time. A lot of controversy arises at the mere mention of this guy's name, and Da Vinci himself-when alive- was no stranger to this. Whether or not we believe a certain Author's claims of Da Vinci's Connections to a Secret Society or his 'Social Preferences', we have to admit that he was a Genius par excellence. Genius in its PUREST form!Very few know that Da Vinci was a great Astronomer too. One of his finest works in Astronomy was solving the ancient riddle of 'Earthshine'.Earthshine??!You can see Earthshine whenever there's a crescent Moon on the horizon at sunset. Look between the horns of the crescent for a ghostly image of the full Moon. That's Earthshine. The image shown above is Da Vinci's Sketch of Earthshine. (Source: NASA.gov)

The Reason...

When the sun sets on the Moon, it gets dark-but not completely dark. There's still a source of light in the sky: our very own Earth. Earth lights up the lunar night 50 times brighter than a full Moon, producing the ashen glow-or the EarthShine.

Where Da Vinci goofed up..

We cant blame the poor guy! First, he was in the 1500's and Second, it required a lot of guts to be a 'Free thinker' in his times. Still, he was wrong about TWO things as far as Earthshine was concerned...

He said that the Moon was filled with Oceans, which we know, is not.
Earth's Oceans were the Primary source of Earthshine. But actually, the CLOUDS are as they do most of the reflecting..

Yeah, he did goof up at places, but he had got the Basics right, and had understood Earthshine way back in the 1500's. Who knows what else went on in the mind of that great thinker. One can't stop to think of the possibility of him having solved the riddles of space and time: Something for which Einstein slogged all his life.

Kudos to the man, an example for Humanity!

Cry of the Smile

2006-06-04T09:51:00.000-07:00

Cry of The Smile

Blooming through the place that day,

The Smile ,once again, had its way...

The whole day it roamed from face to face,

And now at dusk, It wished to stray from Pace...

Just as it was to take a Nap,

A giggling boy came sat in its Lap.

The puzzled smile was a sight to see,

As it thought, Who is this other "me"?

It asked the boy,

"Who are you Son?

Whilst I was here, who gave you Fun?!"

The boy now laughed and gave a deep sigh,

And the Smile saw Sorrow like the limitless sky...

The boy said softly,"You are a busy one... And at my place, you have never come!

You have better things to do, Than seeing a grave at the age of two!

You surely have more things to do...

And so I made another "You".

The smile had nothing more to say,

As the tear from its eye broke the silence of the day!

-Aakar [20/03/03]

2006-05-18T09:41:00.000-07:00

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