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Archive for the ‘Trivia’ Category
Thank goodness for global warming!
January 30, 2021Vaccination trivia
December 22, 2020It’s trivia because Halal, Kosher, Vegan and Vegetarian are high principles based on low reasoning and spurious logic.
Pfizer roll out!
December 14, 2020Pfizer vaccine roll out has started.
(Note! Refrigerated transport).
Big Pharma is a good investment
November 23, 2020It is never a bad time to invest in pharmaceuticals.
The risks are with the frauds and scams and the incompetent but never with the size of the market. The companies with successful coronavirus vaccines will have the added advantage of most of their costs being covered by public funds.
Waiting Game
September 18, 2020
The world adds 1,000 new murderers every day
August 28, 2020Of all the causes of deaths, violent deaths probably account for 2 -3%. Intentional homicides globally account for less than 1% of all deaths, though in some countries it can be as high as 10%.
Some murderers kill more than one person. Say 2 of every 10 murderers kills two (10 murderers = 12 murders). That gives us 410,000 fresh murderers every year. Let us further suppose that murderers are 10 times more likely to be murdered than the general population. Even if we take the worst country homicide rate of 50/100,000 and assume that murderers are killed at the rate of 500/100,000, this only rids us of 2,050 murderers annually. The clearance rate of recorded homicides globally is probably less than 50%. However, clearance rates don’t affect the number of murderers in our midst. Execution rates are so low as to not be significant in reducing the growing population of the world’s murderers.
The incontrovertible reality is that we add over 1,000 murderers to the population every day.
Estimating how many murderers are around is more uncertain, but the arithmetic says it should currently be around 25 million (35 / 100,000 of population). To put that in perspective, any cricket match with 30,000 spectators would include 10 murderers in the crowd.
Losing sleep
August 24, 2020I have yet to find a political party which represents my views.
But of all the various parties from left to right, I find I am diametrically opposed to the various green parties on almost every issue. They have almost cornered the market on stupidity.
Resolution of armed conflicts
August 14, 2020With age they say comes wisdom.
In my case it shows up as cynicism.
There are no effective arguments against Force Majeure.
How to disrupt the reincarnation of dead flies
July 15, 2020It is summer, windows are open and the house flies have returned. They are not affected by the coronavirus. Fortunately they do not seem to be carriers either.
Based on past experience, fly swatters are kept available in every room.
Of course they reincarnate, so just swatting them only brings temporary relief. My efforts have now advanced to trying to disrupt their reincarnation process. Empirical evidence suggests that the following actions can gain a few minutes respite even if they cannot stop reincarnation.
- Wrap the swatted fly in tissue and throw into a waste paper basket
- Wrap the swatted fly in tissue and throw into a waste paper basket in another room
- Mash the swatted fly and wrap in tissue and dispose of in a waste paper basket in another room
- Mash the swatted fly and wrap in tissue and aluminium foil and dispose of in a waste paper basket in another room (based on the hypothesis that the foil disrupts after-death communications)
These actions have gained some respite from recurrent fly attacks, ranging from a few minutes up to an hour when foil-wrapping is employed.
However my latest efforts now involve:
- swatting the fly,
- mashing it,
- wrapping in tissue,
- further covering with foil into a tight wad, and
- flushing down the toilet.
This seems to work.
Of course it may just be that the reincarnation is shifted to somewhere else along the sewage system.
I swat them here, I swat them there,
My wife, she swats them everywhere,
Are they immortal? Are they from hell?
Those damnable Musca domesticels
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April 16, 2020404.2 posts / year which means I am still ahead of my one post per day target.
