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Fundamental Surfaces

2007-10-10

After Peter Grünberg (together with Albert Fert from France) has yesterday been honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the giant magnetoresistance (GMR), which is widely applied in hard disks today, today Gerhard Ertl – on his birthday! – follows with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his fundamental research in surface chemistry, which yielded new insights in various areas such as catalytic converters, rust and ozone destruction. Congratulations!

German research may be not that bad in general as it seems sometimes – it shouldn’t rest on these laurel’s, though, since there are other areas of research where it’s looking less “nobel”…

Into Battle!

2007-10-10

Dionysus Konna throws his questionnaire stick right into battle to me:

Which God or Goddess are you? Your Result: Ares Greek God of War You laugh in the face of War. You revel in conflict and power. You are manipulative, seductive, and a strategist. Your carnal heart enjoys a good battle.
Zeus Greek King of the Gods
Dionsyus Greek God of Wine
Aphrodite Greek Goddess of Love
Artemis Greek Goddess of the Hunt
Hades Greek God of the Underworld
Which God or Goddess are you? Quizzes for MySpace

I’ll shoot this question stick on to the diva JuliaL49 and into the technology Olympus to aptgetOliver (both German; if you don’t want it, duck!), and to anyone else who feels battle-ready enough to take it.

Dear (Mr) Anghela,

2007-10-09

Woman's portrait (I know it’s hard to translate the mockery of a spam in bad German to English – I made some changes because I couldn’t translate everything verbatim without too much explanations –, but please bear with me anyway, if you will… )

I do think nice you want get know *erm* *hrrm* *harrumph* I wanted to say, I like it that you want to get to know me, call me a “dear friend” and send me two nice photos, but you rather try to find a better translator for you than the presumed machine that translated your Russian(?), because otherwise, I think it will only “be comfortable when we by-pass ourselves e-mails” due to the fact we won’t read anything from each other.

But I’m sorry to say about “To Me it very Well Your Side on the lot”, I don’t own a lot of land. Maybe you’re right and “it only the big plus for us more older are.”

But all that just along the way. I think it’s really remarkable how pretty and very female transsexuals can look, it’s just that, well, how should I tell you, sorry, unfortunately, I’m not really totally 100% completely interested. Though I’d have liked to know what it is like “to potect” you, couldn’t have been too perverted – or could it?

mouth with cherry Well, my best wished for your search for someone who just as much searches “the second half of life” (and that even though that comes over time all by itself), and go along with your (electronical, hence non-physical) greetings:

“The strongest and passionate kiss!
Your boyfriend Anghela.”

(Alright, one little explanation: English “friend” (and other languages too, I assume) can be male and female, but German differentiates that with “Freund”/”Freundin”.)

(PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of these pictures the spammers used, just send me a little note and I’ll remove them.)

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Update: In the comments in Stefano Picco’s blog (German, of course) someone posted the next mail he got from “replying”, also in this German antispam forum here and there……

Continued: Reply from Anghela.

Guess I should mention in every part of this series that this can only be from frauds who want to grift pretended travel costs.

Poll of faith ended – Question of time

2007-10-09

My previous little poll (on the right hand side in the sidebar) is now closed after the most important number of 42 participantsTeilnehmern – and among those of my visitors who spotted it and felt like participating, the atheists and agnostics (to combine them roughly) hold a slight majority:

Result of the poll "Do you believe in God?"

From now on, the new poll is online, appropriate for what will be done at the end of this month (yes, this month, some got it wrong at the end of September – don’t worry, I won’t tell any names ):

Do you like the daylight saving time clock change between summer and winter time? Or rather do away with it? But then, what time to keep – rather earlier bright and earlier dark, or later and longer bright?

So turn to the right (just in this browser window, what else did you think? ) and vote…!

Predicting Lotto Numbers??

2007-10-08

This article only deals with one specific method of pretended lotto prognoses. » Click here for all my articles about lotto

Lotto playing form - photo from lotto-bw.de/presse Via Bloggerei.de and (update:) what was, at that time, on Ramschmarkt.de, I came across something called “Global Scaling”, a, let’s call it view of the world where everything is said to be connected by a standing wave and that apparently claims that all things big and small can somehow be described with logarithmic scales – or something like that, maybe I didn’t interpret all those pieces of information floating around on the web correctly. The main homepage seems to be globalscaling.de (also abbreviated as GS in the following text), the “Institute for Space Energy Research”.

When physicists and other scientists research in “free space energy” or things like that, I don’t mind at first, things have to be investigated;
When a “cosmic background noise” and logarithmic scales are kinda seen as new “silver bullet” for anything (logarithms not being uncommon in math and physics, anyway), some skepticism is necessary, I think;
When “lotto prognosis” is mentioned as one of the fields of application, the whole thing, in my consideration, crashes down to the lowest end on any respectability scale;
When they charge money for that, my spontaneous opinion sees that going maybe a little too far towards rip-off or deceit.

Yes, I’ve contemplated whether I should spend much attention to such a dubious “system”, but…

1. …well, let’s have a closer look.

math book (I apologize for this being quite lengthy, but a certain detailedness is necessary. So maybe get yourself a cup of coffee – or go directly to the conclusion…))

Quote from globalscaling.de, my translation:

“How exact is the Lotto prognosis?

The lottery is about the selection of a random sequence of natural (whole) numbers. Because of that, under best preconditions, a lotto prognosis can never be more accurate than ±1.”

This combination of these two sentences, I think, will make the hair of anyone who has ever seen a formula from probability calculus from nearby stand on end. Only with ~~a little~~ heaps of good will – and without knowing the formulae of “Global Scaling” – one could assume that this sentence’s wording is just accidentally a little off, or shortened, simplified too much…

The sentence (in my translation)

“We point out that we give no guarantee for the precision of our lotto prognosis.”

is necessary, of course – if the prognoses were perfect, they already were multiple lotto millionaires and had no need to make the effort to sell their “lotto prognosis”. Anyway, following on that page are a bunch of big numbers, which, the way I read it, boil down to the fact that the more tips you play that do not repeat, the higher your chances to win. Preferably (for GS) with numbers bought from GS, of course…

2. But how good are their prognoses?