Romance by numbers ...

Yeah baby, it's time to get excited. Australian statisticians at University of NSW School of Mathematics and Statistics have given birth to this new formula which would probably give relief to the deprived young people (like me) and heart-pounding worries to the 'marriage-age' people! Yes, they have developed a sequence of calculations which would predict your optimal proposal age.

The claim is of a success rate of 40 percent which looks pretty optimistic to a poor desperate chap like me! Here the link to the news article in The Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/relationships/man-woman/Formula-to-predict-time-for-love-marriage/articleshow/5560031.cms. It was published on 11th February, 2010 just few days before lovers' day.

So, the formula goes like this.

1. Choose the oldest age by which you would like to get married. Call it 'n'. My case was 32 years. Hmm! :)
2. Decide the minimum age at which you'll start to consider a potential spouse. Assign it 'p'. I am kinda desperate; so I was ready by 18. :P
3. Subtract 'p' from 'n' and multiply by 0.368. My result came (32-18) * 0.368 = 5.152.
4. Add this to your minimum age 'p'. So my lucky age came as 23 years and 55 days!

So, whatever you say; you all are the genius minds. I'll be waiting for my day. It's surely time to fall in love with maths now!

In love with maths, huh???

Okay, this ain't my own creation but isn't this the funda of every 'not another random blog' to do blah blah about random stuffs! I surely cannot manage to keep my blog running without this external help. I also just have to talk shit about things once in a while.

Okay, this one here is one of my favorites from the xkcd web-comics collection. I am new to the concept of web-comics and sometimes end up clueless about what some of the nerd one-liners mean. But, it's sure fun and a great time pass to go from one random strip to another.

Okay, so here's the deal. This one has been titled 'Useless' and has the permanent link: http://www.xkcd.com/55/. The tag-line on the comic reads as, "Even the identity matrix doesn't work normally". Now here we are left to ponder what this could possibly mean. Obviously, nobody wants you to go and read the chapter on Matrices and Determinants. Yeah, right, these tags are meant to be funny and sarcastic. :P

Oh well, love is a strange thing. Yeah, now you come to the point bitch! It is a beautiful thing and blah blah what all; no doubts. Okay, this reminds me of a dialouge which a got hold of from an episode of the TV series, Californication (Well, I would recommend every kiddo out there to watch it ... but I'll leave this discussion to some other blog entry perhaps :P).

Person 1: "When will this heart stop hurting?"

Person 2: (sarcastically) "Well, if you are lucky, then never!"

Being in love with someone teaches you life-time of things (can't think of a better word for now :D). Even listening to others' love stories gives you those sweet feelings of togetherness. Can't tell about you, but I sure am a newbie in this experience, so everything looks all stupid and serious to me at the same time.

Hope, you all got to this end part to see what the post was all about! :)

P.S.: I would suggest people with enthusiasm to blog and read blogs to get into web-comics. Just follow a site on a daily basis. First step would be to just open it and start by clicking on Random and voila there you go!