Why do computer geeks get Halloween confused with Christmas?
Because Oct 31 == Dec 25

Heisenberg is stopped by a traffic cop who asks: “Do you know how fast you were going?”
Heisenberg replies: “No, but I know exactly where I am”

Yesterday, I stumbled onto a treasure trove of Geek jokes. Most of the jokes were bad puns and some of them I never understood. Like this one:

To get to the other side.

Why did the tachyon cross the road?

I blinked twice, double checked the “joke” and then googled for “tachyon”

According to Wikipedia:

A tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that moves faster than light.

Also,

Because a tachyon moves faster than the speed of light, we cannot see it approaching. After a tachyon has passed nearby, we would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions.

Now get that joke?

I guess, you learn something new everyday…

Ps: For all times sake:
“Schodinger’s cat: Wanted Dead or Alive”

I was watching the latest episode of Futurama and sipping a hot cup of tea when this question randomly popped into my head:

If I do succeed in making that time machine how the hell am I going to test it?

Ok that question has a lot to do with the latest episode of Futurama… In the episode the Professor invents a “One Way Time Machine”. For details watch the episode (it was pretty good too)

Back to the subject of this post… “How do you test a time machine?”

If it was a normal machine I would try and get it into the state required for it start properly and then check the outputs/results and iterate. But that wont work with a time machine!

Lets say I convince a poor bugger to test my machine(Of course I wont test it myself what if it blows up or something ), there are three possible results:

1. It works perfectly well – ‘Thats coz I am pretty good at building this stuff‘
2. It fails miserably (basically nothing happens) – ‘Ohh cant these assistants do one thing right, guess I have to do everything myself‘
3. It works partially – This is the case we need to talk about…

Lets say it worked fine for going back in time but not forward… I would expect the bugger to track me down and tell me I was successful. What if he went too far back? He cant pass on the message thru my great grand parents! – ‘Oh damn! thats what my granny meant when she said “Works fine, look at going forward” ‘

Basically it wont help my results now, how will I know what to fix…

Lets say it goes only forward… The future me would be thrilled to know but the present me just cant sit around waiting to know
Again if he goes too ahead in time, well thats pointless aint it…

My basic point about all this is that if I can invent a machine that can make people(and itself) disappear I should technically be able to pass it off as a partially working time machine… Right?

Astronomy Picture of the Day had written about this celestial event a couple of days back and I was really looking forward to watching it. I never expected it to be clear enough for me to capture from my point and click! Well the above two are the best of the pictures I managed

Whenever I would have a dream, it turned out to be very important to me. I think its got to do more with my belief that dreams are messages from the subconscious. Considering that I did not have many to work with most often than not I would end up making sense of my dreams and it would almost always give me a better understanding of myself. Some of the biggest realizations of my life have occurred to me while interpreting dreams.

In the past few weeks the number of dreams I am having has been increasing exponentially. Havent been able to pin point the cause of this surge in dreams, maybe its got to do with the crash I had a while back ( It probably shook that part of my brain active )

Now the dreams were really intresting, and have gotten me thinking about a lot of things… Nothing too drastic but little nice things about myself and how I feel about people in my life. One more thing it has me doing now is keeping a dream journal.

What is a dream journal?
Well its like a diary where you write about your dreams, whome you interacted with, what you did, where you were, how it ended ect.

Guess I will be doing a lot more web searches with the terms “dream interpretation” from now on

So can someone out there shed some light on this? Any papers or studies regarding the topic, even personal opinions are welcome