Probability

What's this?
I hear you scream.
Two entries in a row? What is this madness?


Knuckling down to start some probability today I paused to reflect on that word.
Probability, somewhat unassuming no? However if your childhood was filled up with playing SNES with all the kids in the neighbourhood a different meaning might pop up. That being: Pro - Babality.
What is a Babality you ask? I scoff in return. *scoff*
But gather round so I may weave you a tale.
Mortal Kombat, a game that took up most of my childhood behind Super Mario Land and pretending I was a butterfly, was a Fighting Game for the SNES, or Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Like many other fighting games you spent most of your time memorising difficult combos to stack up a 17 hit streak or just used the same cheap move over and over again (I am looking at You Sheeva and your Up-Down combo, and you too Shang Tsung and your fireballs of death). However unlike conventional fighting games at the time like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat was exceptional violent. While winning a round in Street Fighter would leave your character doing a victory pose, winning two rounds consecutively in Mortal Kombat would give you a chance to FINISH THEM wherein you would enter in an incredibly hard combo to preform a FATALITY which were incredibly gruesome. To give you an idea here is a short compilation below.


Random Fatalities

So while Street Fighter just ended with an unconscious opponent in Mortal Kombat you ended with a dead one.
This sparked outrage in Parent's Groups, this game was just too violent and well....it was just too violent. They were angry at the Fatalities in particular so Midway chose to do something about it.
In their next title, the originally named MORTAL KOMBAT II, Midway introduced new forms of Fatalities. These ranged from Animality, where your character would turn into their animal counter part and destroy your opposition to Brutatlity, which is essentially a massive combo of hits that end in your opposition exploding with a gratuitous amount of blood and organs.
However Midway took the concerns of the Parent's Groups very seriously (Read: Sarcasm) and as such entered in new forms of fatalities just to mock or spite them.
A personal favourite of mine is Babality (see the connection?) where the hapless victim would be transformed into his/her baby counterpart.


Babality

Another form of fatality they put in the game was Friendship where the person performing the Fatality, instead of ripping out their spine or igniting them on fire would do something nice for a change, like go bowling or give a present. Some are shown below.



Friendship


So know we all know what I think of when anyone says probability and I now hope you think of that as well.

To study?

Study Break

During this one week of Study Break I would like to waste half an hour of my life to waste five minutes of your life.
If you were not satisfied with your five minutes wasted please write me a lengthy email detailing why you weren't satisfied and I will refund your five minutes wasted by reading this with the five minutes you will spend writing me a complaint.

Ah yes, the joys of 'Study Break'. Relishing in the ambiguity of the phrase I pause and realise how I have already started procrastinating.
'Study Break' could of course be interpreted 3 ways.
The first being as a Break from universitas to study.
The second (and probably the most popular) interpretation interprets the statement as a Break from Study.
And the third and final interpretation is the act of studying a certain type of music that blends Hip Hop, Rock and Breakdancing into a comglomeration of sound, music and feeling. It is truely a sight to behold, but then again 'A man eating a blender' is a sight to behold as well and I don't plan on doing that in the near future.
So while on this 'Study Break' (choose your own interpretaion) I may as well ramble aimlessly to give myself the illusion of accomplashing great feats. It is a great misfortune that I cannot major in English Literature because then I would also be studying. For my first ramble I wish to draw your attention to ambigous phrases.
Besides 'Study Break' one that I relish is 'I will deal with it momentarily.'
When used your subject is often at ends with the meaning. "Does he mean 'I will deal with it soon.'?" He muses to himself, "Or does he mean 'I will only deal with it for the duration of a moment.'?"
Oh course the added advantage of this confusion is that your subject doesn't notice their wallet being pocketed or a small sample of thier blood being taken... for research purposes of course.

But alas, I must leave you my loyal companions, for the night is young and you frankly could do to lose a few kilos.

AWAY!

Blag

To all my friends I say "Oogaly Purple Mushroom!" and to everyone else I say "Inside joke."

What has brought you here today? Here of all days and of all places you chose to stumble across this blog but the question remains why?
Not only that. Of all the times you could have stumbled upon this blog you chose now.
Just pause a moment and reflect on that statistical anomaly. The chances of you doing so are... quite small. And yet you did! It's like winning the lottery without the soul destroying gambling or trouble inducing money! Congratulations!

We are currently studying Special Relativity in the Physics Course I am enrolled in in uni. Well.... not currently. We just finished the topic and I will be an incredibly sad boy if they started having Special Relativity lectures at 7:30am. I don't think my brain could handle it.
Anyway in this course I found many answers to the questions that I had been asking all my life. For instance:
If you were traveling at the speed of light and you turned on a flashlight; What would happen?
The answer: You would already be dead granted you had infinite force to get you to the speed of light in the first place due to doppler shift.
And that's the thing. Doppler shift works on light but it doesn't affect it's speed, it affects it's frequency (hence redshift and blueshift) and the constant speed of light remains... well... constant.

I thought that was pretty cool.
And now! I will return to waiting paitently for Scribblenauts to hit Australia.

*sigh*

I'm not very good at this blogging thing am I?
I should set aside a time once a week where I can just blog but alas I am not organised.

Anywho, what has been new?
Nothing much, oh yeah, we sold our house so we will be moving away from our house of 15 years. It is rather emotional as it is a good house and has been nice to me.

But enough of this! I have a Calc test to study for and I promise I will write something on Friday.
If not...then.
Um...


Hm....


I will do a handstand! And I can't do handstands.