Al-Gebra
Terrorist
New York (CNN). At John F. Kennedy
International Airport today, a Caucasian male (later discovered to be a
high school mathematics teacher) was arrested trying to board a flight
while in possession of a compass, a protractor and a graphical calculator.
According to law enforcement officials, he is believed to have ties to the
Al-Gebra network. He will be charged with carrying weapons of math
instruction.
Source:
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html
Murphy's Ten Laws for Experimentalist
In a scientific
experiment,
(1) if something can go wrong, it will do so just before your grant is
up for review;
(2) if the reading on your detector is correct, then you have forgot to
plug it in;
(3) if several things can go wrong then they will do so all at the same
time;
(4) if nothing can go wrong with your experiment, something still will;
(5) left unto itself, your experiment will go from bad to worse; on the
other hand, if you pay attention to the experiment then it will take
three times longer to complete than you thought it would;
(6) Nature is both subtle and malicious (Murphy stole this one from
Albert Einstein);
(7) a straight line will never fit your data, and using a wiggly line
will result in the rejection by referees of the publication of work;
(8) if you make a great discovery today, you will find a major error in
your methods tomorrow (experienced experimentalists call this effect
"here today, gone tomorrow");
(9) in contrast to a radio, banging your apparatus when you are at peak
frustration will not fix it but permanently break it (for this reason,
it is important for experimentalists to remain calm at all times);
(10) when your experiment is just about to succeed, you will run out of
grant money.
In short, in a scientific experiment, anything that can go wrong will go
wrong.
By the way, the staff of Jupiter Scientific has a proof of Murphy's Law
but it is too long to fit in the margin of a webpage.
Source:
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/jokes/miscellaneousjokes.html
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