Entries Tagged as ‘Self Exploration’

July 3, 2008

Jews in Japan

Curiosity lead me to hunt down some numbers for my personal interest in mining statistics.
Considering a liberal estimate of 14 million Jews world-wide, and a world population of 6,707,035,007 as of July 1st, 2008, that means the world is only .2% Jewish. Out of the 574 Nobel Prize Laureates, 160 are Jews, meaning that [...]

June 24, 2008

The end of こいこい

It’s an undeniable fact that I’m the master of こいこい.
Our new-ish PC came with the computer version of こいこい, a Japanese card game. (Mini-fact: Nintendo made its claim to fame as the leading production company of the game cards, called hanafuda, used in this game)
The game is cake. Well, it used to [...]

June 21, 2008

A little bit about the man behind the curtain

For lack of anything really interesting to write about at the minute, I’ll write 8 factoids about myself since it has been demanded of me by Deas. I should warn you, though, that on the Japanese magnitude scale of “interesting” I register at “not very”. Most people don’t read these things, anyways.
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May 12, 2008

Finding the confidence to claim ignorance.

The over-pious think that unbelievers are in the dark, and the over-skeptical think that believers are misguided. Neither is right.