livin' with seoul: an expensive luxury

i'm just creating this entry 2 give me something 2 do... cos i’m pretty bored today, now that i’ve finished watching, reading & listening 2 every bit of post-match analysis of ireland’s oh so grand grand slam win that i could find on the net (a big go raibh maith agat - that's irish for thank you, if you don't mind - 2 rte). i probably shouldn’t be admitting that i'm bored, much less writing about it, especially seen as i’m in work & seen as i do have 'stuff' 2 do. 'stuff' roughly translates 2 maybe an hours work - okay maybe 2 hours - with a deadline of the end of the month 2 get it done by. even me, the procrastinator extraordinaire that i am, is gonna have difficulties stretching 2 hours of work out over 5 days. i suppose i’ll continue 2 pass the days by drinking coffee, sitting on fb, listening 2 the albums i’m downloading, taking extended lunch breaks, & sauntering around the office having jovial banter with the koreans, the same koreans who aren’t fooling me by pretending 2 be busy. yep, 2 months after the end of one camp, & 4 months before the start of the next, it’s a quiet time for all – not just me - in mellowville, a.k.a. the ck office. i guess @ the moment i’m just getting paid 2 be here... getting paid just 2 be a western presence in the office, an expensive luxury in a time of economic crisis (yes, they are suffering over here 2... go out & buy a few samsung tv's or hyundai cars please). i’m here 2 be a human thesaurus... i'm here in case someone wants 2 know what this word is & that word means... & i'm here in case someone needs a document 2 be checked for grammatical errors . i’m also here just in case, as happened last week, it is desirable 2 have a western face in some official photograph... & finally, i’m here in case the koreans get curious as 2 what a westerners opinion is on some pressing korean issue (will there be a war?... do i think the koreans will win the wbc? etc). yep, these days i'm just your regular johnny-on-the-spot, go-2 ck westerner... & that's fine with me.

right, speaking of the wbc, the game starts in an hour. best get the feed 2 my desktop sorted. nothing else 2 do. not today anyway. comon' korea!

** upade, 4 hours later - they lost. so, no beers tonight then i guess. myself & the rest of the korean males in the office have just spent most of the afternoon huddled around a computer monitor watching the game. the boys are still grumbling & cursing the damn japanese. nothing new there. **

‘livin' with seoul’ laugh

i like this, an actual question given on a university of washington chemistry mid-term. the answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which, of course, meant he shared it with the world.

*bonus question: is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?*

most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using boyle's law (gas cools when it expands & heats when it’s compressed) or some variant. one student, however, wrote the following, for which he received a well deserved a+.

first, we need 2 know how the mass of hell is changing in time. so we need 2 know the rate @ which souls are moving into hell & the rate @ which they are leaving. i think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets 2 hell, it will not leave. therefore, no souls are leaving. as for how many souls are entering hell, let's look @ the different religions that exist in the world today.

most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go 2 hell. since there is more than one of these religions & since people do not belong 2 more than one religion, we can project that all souls go 2 hell. with birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell 2 increase exponentially.

now, we look @ the rate of change of the volume in hell because boyle's law states that in order for the temperature & pressure in hell 2 stay the same, the volume of hell has 2 expand proportionately as souls are added.

this gives 2 possibilities:

1. if hell is expanding @ a slower rate than the rate @ which souls enter hell, then the temperature & pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.

2. if hell is expanding @ a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature & pressure will drop until hell freezes over.

so which is it?

if we accept the postulate given 2 me by teresa during my freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in hell before i sleep with you," & take into account the fact that i slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, & thus i am sure that hell is exothermic & has already frozen over. the corollary of this theory is that since hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls & is therefore extinct...leaving only heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, teresa kept shouting 'oh my god!'