interesting sociological experiment

imagine a hypothetical capacity-constrained facebook :-)

each person can only have a strict limit of k-friends, and your ex-"friends" can see your current selection/comment on it etc.

would be curious to see what happens!

left-handedness and making up stuff on the fly

someone pointed out that the way left handed people write looks contrived.

knowing nothing left handedness, writing or anything close to that, i came up with 2 "theories" on-the-fly (that have withstood the cant-find-an-obvious-contradiction-in-10-seconds test of time)

1. teachers in early classes are primarily trained/overfitted to right-handers. so they end up not knowing the optimal smooth strokes for different alphabets for left-handed kids (i recall that there was a time that left-handedness was considered evil ..and teachers forced kids to become right handed .. but i digress)

2. its easier for a right handed person to write left-to-right (less constrained stroke). so our writing style is pretty much designed for the common case. so left-handers have to contrive to write in the direction that is not entirely natural

if anyone knows any better, id like to know. would also like to hear more cant-find-an-obvious-contradiction-in-10-seconds theories as well :-)

the last bite problem

funny how no one wants to finish the last chocolate or the last bit of some snack. somehow, even though there is less than a mouthful, when it comes to the last few bites, the lifetime of the snack seems to get prolonged. somehow, the act of "finishing" must create a sense of guilt! surely, some diet experts must exploit this somehow?

buses and insects

funny how a bus smells similar to when an insect gets squished. reminded me of this little-black-dot-of-a-creature that used to give out this most obnoxious smell when squished (incidentally, this is what i was doing in some "classes" --tracking/squishing insects :-) ). cant describe either the smell or the insect (didnt have any distinguishing feature beyond just looking like a black dot). but if anyone has any clue what the heck im talking about, id be very curious to know the name of that insect.