The Italian man who went to Malta

One a day Imra gonna to Malta to biga Hotel. In the morning I go downa to eata breakfast. I tell the waitress I wanna two pieces of toast. She bring me only one piece. I tell her I want two piece. She say go to the toilet, I say you no understand, I wanna two piece on the my plate. She say you better no piss on the plate, you sonomabitch! I don't even know the lady and she call me a sonomabitch!

Later I go to eat on the a big Restaurant. The waitress brings me a spoon and a knife, but no fork. I tell her I wanna the fork. She tella me everybody wanna fuck. I tell her you no understand, I wanna a forko on the table. She say you better not fuck on the table, you sonomabitch!

So I go back to my room ina Hotel, and there is no sheets on the bed. Call the Manager, I tell him I wanna sheet! He tella me go to the toilet! I say you no understand, I wanna sheet on my bed! He say you better not shit on my bed, you sonomabitch!

I go to the check out and the man at the desk say "Peace on you", I say "Piss on you too, you sonomabitch!" I'm gonna back to Italia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0

Faint

Has anyone seen Hard Candy? The movie? The one where a 14-year old girl hooks up with a photographer online? Well, if you haven't...

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!! IF YOU READ ANY FURTHER, THE MOVIE WILL BE SPOILED FOR YOU!!!!

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(55 dots later)

Do you know that scene when Hayley castrates Jeff? If you don't, the story goes: Hayley persuades Jeff to invite her into his house, where she drugs him and ties him to a metal platform she'll use as a surgery table to castrate him (because she thinks he's a pedophile, and raped and murdered a girl). So remember that scene where she's snipping his testicles off, slowly, taking her time, all the while commenting on what she's doing to the pleading, sweating, crying Jeff? Pretty intense, huh?

Well, it was a bit too intense for me. You know what I got out of that scene? Nausea. Slow, gradual, but very real nausea. I stopped the movie mid-scene, walked up to Leila, and told her about how the scene had made me feel sick. I felt gradually worse, so I sat down at Ina's chair, trying to make the nausea go away.

Suddenly, I lost consciousness. I had no idea for how long, but next thing I knew, I didn't know where I was, who I was, or anything at all - my whole field of sight was covered in white. Then little by little, I regained my eyesight. I recognized Leila's face about 5 seconds after managing to see her again, right about when I realized where I was and what was happening. I felt so sick - I asked Leila to close the door and just dropped to the floor to avoid the effort of keeping my body balance - I felt so weak!

After about 3 minutes of conversation with Leila from the floor, I was able to stand up and recover my senses completely. Even 15 minutes after I had stood up and after several cups of water, my body was shaking with discomfort and remaining nausea.

That was the one main event I felt really important to record. Fainting because of a movie. It's a lifetime first from what I can remember.

In other news, Leila gave me a Netflix membership for a month and I loved it. And I gave her a Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter and she loved it. And she was SOOO happy about it! She initially tried to guess what it was, but even though she managed to figure out that it was white, it plugged into her computer, and it transmitted images, she couldn't figure it out!! :) It was a fun evening. We had dinner at Bangkok Balcony, and she guessed while we waited for our food. After she had a big salad and I had some lemongrass noodles, we drove to the big Giant Eagle and got some ice cream, went back to the office and shared it with Shing-Hon. Then we went into Leila's office, and she was so excited about me finishing up the movie "Instinct" on her Netflix, that she offered to work on the report alone if only I finished the movie!

So I watched the movie... it was quite good!! So I saw two movies in a day, and the second one DIDN'T make me faint! And now I have to work on the ML report, due today at 10:30PM. It's worth 15% of our grade! Then there's the homework, due tomorrow at 10:30AM. It's worth 7% of our grade! Then there's the final!! We take that on monday in the morning... it's worth 25% of our grade!!!!!

Which is why I gotta stop blogging and start working on that report. Cya!

Square table

so, those are ok...

silence...

these should work, I think.

and there's a typo in the textbook, at least I think it's a typo...

silence... rustling of book pages as some people read their textbooks and notes.

More silence...

"So, any other questions about homework?"

"I think..."

"Uhh, the discussion about the first question"

"8.6?

Yes

"Uh, what's your question?"

"So you can do part A, you can't do part B, you mean?"

"No, I don't see the connection."

"Oh, that one?"

"Oh, I erased that."

"So, it's... and, uh, to minimize the likelihood, you need to find the MLE, all right?"

So your likelihood ratio is...

writes formula on the board,

student watches attentively

everyone else except two more students ignore the scene.

"If mu equals Zeta.... blah blah blah"

So, your sample becomes ... "

Outside a single open window in the middle under a partly closed blind, trees with fall colors partly block the sight of the brown, futuristic-fascism-looking like building, something like the Ministry of Love from 1984.

"Um, for 8.38b, um, what does it mean when it says can you derive the .... zzzzzzzzzzzz"

Leila shakes her head backward, wraps her hair together to put a hairpin on it, hehehe, hits her hand on a chair when putting it down, says "ouch".

Alona and Leila exchange a few words.

"Did you see the standard deviation?"

"Yes"

"18", with an affirming, surprised look...

(After a polite-to-slightly-heated discussion about 30 points on problem #2, Leila is discussing her problem #3 with Nanjun)...

Both look at the test and the Notes #9 about Minimax theory...