A dear old friend

I'd like to introduce you to a dear old friend of mine, Uncle Mehran. Sweet sweet man. I remember when I was a kid, My parents used to take my brother and I over to his house to visit. He always told amazing stories about his life.

He's the kind of person you can tell used to be good looking in his youth, you can still see the sparkle in his eyes... If you would like to see more of Mehran, click here.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

I would like to take a moment to praise the artistry of the one and only Ronnie of Greenwich. This little pic of me when I was wee is actually the result of a joint effort from the Ronster and myself. He's quite the whiz with photoshop but is also a great photographer.




This photo is entitled "biking in Akka", it was taken while he was on a 3 day pilgrimage to Haifa, where the Baha'i World Centre is.


After going to the Changing times conference at Townshend, I had the pleasure of spending some time in London with the amazing youth there, Ronnie took some great photos. If you look closely at my eye, you can see the camera perfectly positioned in the pupil.


You can also find links to more of his stuff on his own page

the Wonder that is Erfan

So I have this amAzingly amazing friend; his name is Erfan. He is doing his Youth Year of Service at a super cool international school in the Czech Republic called Townshend. He is amused by simple things, in short online interview with him, I uncovered that he was very excited by the fact that today he walked on a freshly asphalted road! Now, unfortunately I have yet had the privilege to walk on such an amazing surface, but hopefully some time in my life it will happen for me...

Seriously, sweet kid, this Erfan... Here's a picture for you all to put a colourful haired face to the name, granted its a tad old but the essense of Erfan remains...


So at the moment, he's doing service with little kiddies in Europe, he enjoys long walks on the beach (I mean fresh asphalt roads), his favourite food is Italian, and he loves his mum's persian cooking. This guy is brainy and a peoples person, he studies Medicine. But sorry ladies, he's taken!

Be it so, if anyone would like to get in touch with the aforementioned wonder that is Erfan, just leave a comment on this posting and I will be sure to ask permission to release his details to you.

mathmeticians, physicists, engineers... and architects

Q: What's the difference between a mathematician and a physicist?
A: A mathematician thinks that two points are enough to define a straight line while a physicist wants more data.

A Mathematician, an engineer and a physicist were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.
"Aha", says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."
"Hmm", says the physician, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black".
"No", says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is at least one sheep in Scotland, and that at least one side of that one sheep is black!"

Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.

Q : Did you hear about the murderous mathematician?
A : He went on a killing spree with a pair of axis!

Three freshman-engineering students were sitting around talking between classes, when one brought up the question of who designed the human body.
One of the students insisted that the human body must have been designed by an electrical engineer because of the perfection of the nerves and synapses.
Another disagreed, and exclaimed that it had to have been a mechanical engineer who designed the human body. The system of levers and pulleys is ingenious.
"No," the third student said, "you're both wrong. The human body was designed by an architect. Who else but an architect would have put a toxic waste line through a recreation area?"

science is fun!!

A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says. The bartender promptly serves up a beer. "How much will that be?" asks the neutron, "For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge"

Q: What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
A: "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees"

A mushroom walked into a bar. The bar tender said, "Get out of here! We don't serve your kind."
"Hey, what's the problem?"
"Just get out of here. We don't serve mushrooms."
The mushroom in anguish says, "Why not? I'm a fun guy."

Do you believe in evolution?

discrete maths

A student walked into his discreet math class late and in order not to interrupt he put his late slip on the teacher's desk furtively without the teacher noticing. The teacher noticed the slip on his desk afterwards. He commented "I see you put this slip on my desk without me noticing. I guess that's why they call this class discrete mathematics."