9/10/00: Fun Tidbits, Puzzle, That's Love

Hi,

A few weekends ago, I went to the Getty Center. I finally posted the
pictures on Zing. You can check them out at:
http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293646577

I also posted pictures of Ben & Eileen and their baby on the BCEC Alumni
Club on Yahoo. This weekend, Chris Ong and his wife Annie came to LA from
Singapore for a short stopover on their way to Orlando for their honeymoon.
They will be visiting Boston at the end of September. Charles Owyang and I
met up with them for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I'll post those
pictures in the future.

Five people replied to last week's question. Three said they are a
modernist, two said they are post-modern.

This week's thought provoking question is: "If you were to select a food
that best describes your character, what food would it be?"

This week's humor was forwarded from Evelyn Lau. Then there is another
puzzle from Dave Shim (the answer to last week's puzzle is at the end of
this email, written very well by Phil Lin). Finally, the inspirational
piece was forwarded from Susan Hasegawa.

Enjoy!

-Josh.

Some of you wanted to know the name of the email merge program I'm using.
It's called Mail King and you can download a 30-day evaluation copy at
www.mailking.com (you will be redirected).

Come to the APEX/NAAAP Conference here in LA!
http://www.apex.org/content.cfm?content_id=81
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Fun Tidbits

7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers
were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of
pickles the company once had.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez
dispenser.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly
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Puzzle: Lightbulb

There's a room with a light bulb. Outside the room are three switches,
each initially in the "off" position, one of which controls the light bulb.
At the start, the door leading to the room is closed, and there is no way
to tell, from the outside, whether or not the light bulb has been turned
on. Can you figure out a way to determine, with 100% accuracy, which
switch controls the light bulb? The only limitation as to what you can do
is that once you open the door, you can't go back to the switches. Other
than that, you can doing anything else (but no drilling holes in the walls,
etc.)
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That's Love

In a survey of 4-8 year olds, kids share their views on love. But what do
little kids know about love? Read on and be surprised that despite their
young and innocent minds, kids already have a simple but deep grasp of that
four-letter word.

Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the
way.

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her
toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when
his hands got arthritis too. That's love.

When someone loves you, the way she says your name is different. You know
that your name is safe in her mouth.

God could have said magic words to make the nails fall off the cross, but
He didn't. That's love.

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and
they go out and smell each other.

Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries
without making them give you any of theirs.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before
giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening
presents for a minute and look around.

Love is hugging. Love is kissing. Love is saying no.

When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared she
won't love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only does
she still love you, she loves you even more.

Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.

Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends
even after they've know each other so well.

Love comes from people's hearts, but God made hearts.

That's love - pass it on!!
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Answer to last week's puzzle:

Knowing that the Dragon will bring the strongest poison, the King decided
to drink a weak poison (#1) before hand and drinks the Dragon's glass #10
as antidote. Furthermore, the Kings brings water in his glass. The
Dragon, thinking he drank a poison, quickly ingests poison #10, knowing
that the King does not know the location of pool #10. The Dragon ended up
dead because he in fact did not drink any weaker poison in the first place.

In short,
K drinks #1 before, brings water, uses D's glass as antidote
D drinks brings #10, attempted to use #10 as antidote and dies