The problem with cold is...

1. Your brain freezes and you cant think
2. Your hand freezes and you cant type
3. Your body overworks and you eat too much
4. Your body freezes and you sleep too much
5. But it isnt cold enough to play ice hockey
6. Chess would be great if my pieces didnt feel so cold. And also 1.

The only way to blog is to write like this. Cold- unfeeling posts.

Multiple Choice, Choose One

Which kind of guy would you be most happy living with/marrying?

A. A guy with body odour
B. A guy with a bad temper
C. A guy with 2 extra toes on either foot
D. A guy who sometimes plays too much chess


YOU SURE OR NOT? 2 extra toes on either foot quite ugly leh!!

Linking the Link

Regarding the passage i mentioned from Matt 22:15-22. "Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
21"Caesar's," they replied.
Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." 22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

With this powerful passage, Jesus avoided the trap while not avoiding the issue. He turned a issue for that time into a lesson for disciples of every age. The crucial point is thinking about what is caesar's and what is God's. Christians are not absolved of civic responsibility just by membership into God's kingdom. However, when clashes of civic duty and obedience to God arise, God's command should take priority. We are stamped with the image of God and that should have implications for our attitudes, decisions and directions of our lives. Lets learn to thank God for living in countries (i assuming here about my readers) that do not have to choose everyday how their lives as citizens of God's kingdom puts them in danger with the government. The answers will be much harder then.
With help from Encounter with God devotional from 13th March.

The link is not apparent.

It is generally believed that stimuli in the environment that is often repeated should be remembered more easily. In psychology, this has been shown to be not often the case. Repetition does not really aid recall in all instances.
Nickerson and Adams (1979) did a very clever study of showing 36 college students 15 different versions of the American penny. Participants selected which of the 15 penny - pictures they thought was most likely the right one. Only 15 out of 36 chose the correct version. Others thought that the correct one was 'it could easily be right' --12 pax; 4 thought it might be and 5 were sure it was wrong.
The crucial thing is people seldom process deeply the way Lincoln is facing, the words on the coin etc when they use coins. They just pick the easiest way to discriminate the coins, like the penny is the brown one. Or Dimes are the small ones, Nickels are the thick ones with smooth edges etc. Thus, even with thousands of exposures, memory for such things is bad. Sheer repitition would not necessarily lead to it being encoded in memory because presenting the stimulus does not mean the person is really thinking about all facets of it. In this case, just the colour and size of pennies is more than enough.
To see the stimuli of pennies, have a look here www.dcity.org/braingames/pennies/index.htm
he asked, "Whose picture and title are stamped on it?"
"Caesar's," they replied
"Well then," he said, "give to Caesar what belongs to him. But everything that
belongs to God must be given to God"
Matt 22: 20-21

Dedicated Dedication

I was reading my textbook and the front cover contains a very interesting dedication. It reads "This book is dedicated with love to the memory of Edith and Harold Cohen". The problem is it includes a photo. That seems a lot like one you find on graves. Rather disconcerting actually if you ask me. What ever happened to wittier and not so depressing books. Does not bode well for the material at all i must say. HAHA.