Six Facebook Group that should get...(part 1/6)

ground zero-ed. Completely eradicated, removed for peace of mind.


It all started on few days, when I was doing some data acquisition in facebook ( a statistical way of saying wasting time clicking link and reading whines of others.) I came across a status update that sounds like this


Mr. XXX : Who would actually like a Salad page on Facebook? Me


Although really I want to say, it's actually perfectly normal. If you love salad, there's no reason for you not to like the page. I myself are not a fan of salad (although salad is an even instant food than instant noodle). If joining the group means you could get some salad advice,updates, or even exchanging ways to mix salad. By all means, it's a good and prolly wise thing to do.


For me myself, I have tons of like pages, and they serve some way or another to waste my time. For example, I for the nook group that I liked/joined , I will receive a wall update when Barnes and Nobles are going to give freebie for free~ And also for taylor swift, when there's a new album coming out , I will be immediately updated and went to iTUNES ( ehem, thepiratebay actually ) to download them. While some other like pages are a d**k, they won't let me reading their funny content unless I "like" their page, and so I did, and spent another 1 hour wasting time on the cybernet


But sometimes, there are just some facebook group (or I should say likes) , that makes me ponder the future of humanity when I saw another friend "liked the page". And thus, in attempt to enlighten humanity ( to bitch about them is the real thing), I decide to wander around facebook, and dug back some of the facebook pages that should be somewhere in the 

The ultimate location where your secret/failed assignment/ unfinished love letter/porn/humanity top secret ended  

6. The Like-Baiting Website


They appear in lots of form, ranging from

 To.......

Reason to keep away
Those websites will prolly try to exploit the fact you are an attention whore/ someone naive enough to believe that there's free lunch. They appear from "check who is your top fan/who stalked you to Win a Ipad 2.3 , click Like now. Once you click the like, you gone through some serious permission page

those thing are for nerds, f**k it, stop bugging me and allow me to my  Ipad 2.5

You allowed it, and yeah, welcome to the world of spam, and irritating wall spammer. You have just fallen into a like-baiting website. 

Although you guys will probably smart enough to know there's no such thing as free Ipad. You could probably laughed to some idiot that fall into this Nigerian scam, and proceed to click the stalker track apps in facebook....


Congratulations, once again, to another world of spam.To ruin your bubble, although there's some "top fan page" that actually comes out with those "top fans", actually, all what they do, IS TO COUNT HOW MANY TIMES that certain person has commented. That's all. 




Since stalker, well you know, they just stalk like how some dark shadow walked behind you when you're alone, which is something you never know until....(offtopic, girls and guy please be careful when walking alone, although this does not apply to me. I ate beer jerky. dude). Therefore, those apps is useless to detect these kind of people. Then you ask, "I did have some apps that worked! (and spammed some people wall in process). This is what their program actually do. In programming, it's going to be like this 


howmanyviews = (rand (1,100000)) which basically generates a random number between 1 and 10000, OR


(if usergender==male); (female view > male view), (else if usergender==female); (male view> female view)    

(erm, facebook doesn't have gay/lesbian in gender option)

   


Because, as much as you want to know who's your secret admirer, FACEBOOK DOES NOT HAVE THIS FUNCTION built in (privacy, people ) , which is, there is no way to know that people stalked you ( facebook stalker, rejoice! ) Although I couldn't deny, it's innate in human nature for us wanting to know whether we are popular or not. Even I checked how many people read my website at times, but often times, it's a painful realization that if I didn't check my blog, the views on my blog is basically a zero =__+ 

I know, knowing that you are being stalked by a cute chicken kinda makes you feel good, but wait  until you know it is actually my profile pic....you will wish you didn't know

Well, there's no harm in trying. Who knows out of 1000, one might work. I appreciate your bottomless gap of foolishness, but I should remind you, out of 1000 apps you tried, 1000 of them will write something on your facebook wall, announcing you as an attention whore. 700 of them will send spam to your other friends chatbox  telling them how failed you are for having your account hijacked. 600 of them will make your account write some stupid thing on people's wall, and 100 of them will get your facebook account disabled because you keep sending spam links that you had no idea of.


How to identify


1. If more than 10 ppl like a page, and it's not Justin Beiber/Salad/Snow Day?Packers/Ipod , you should avoid it. Sometimes, the world stupidest thing are done as a group....


2. Keyword like "win a Ipad," , fans, stalker check apps, you should avoid (Disclaimer, if you want to like these kind of fan, by all means, go ahead)

ah, the aerodynamic design. So cool, so sexy , you are such a manifestation of human wisdom........

3. Keywords like I can't believe she did it LOL group, or Justin Beiber did this group. In this case, the keyword you want to avoid is LOL (believe me, the big LOL always mean nothing, and if it does mean something, it means LOL, and since LOL means nothing, and if..........(lol is often a recursion that turns out to be anything but meaningful

4. Any kind of page that wanted you to like before they let you see the content (I falled for this s**t really). Particularly when they ask you to click certain button/color to make sure you are human, you are inadvertently opening yourself to a -8 F snowstorm in a room without winter. Btw, just to let you know, if you really want to know the content so much, there's www.bypassfanpages.com for you (I hold no liability in the disappointment effect u felt after reading the real content.

5. If others fail, simply don't like anything. Just think, of thousands of spam emails, which one did you actually believed. 

6 Engineering Assumptions~I loved to make in exam

Quoting from one of my beloved lecturer (Pn Kiran) that teaches English, "Jin Khang, do not assume! When you assume, you are making ASS of U and ME. "

If memory serves me well, the reason she ranted this sentence to me is probably because I like to use the word "assume, or I guess" in most of my daily conversations. After all, the "assume and I guess" works sort like a "get free of "responsibility jail" card ",

which basically means "hey, I don't know whether I've done that shit, even though I am quite sure I did it. And if shit happens, don't say I didn't warn you. Now go and double check this shit".

It's probably the worst mindset you could have when you are entrusted to some responsibility. But then again, never once I admitted that I am good in any administration/leadership kind of stuff...fine, you could say I 'm spineless...But then again, from what I had observed, administration/leadership skill doesn't matter much when it comes to choosing a leader. Because the majority always had the mindset "Hey this guy is cool/outspoken/weirdly weird enough to be our leader. So pick him as the group leader". And it explained why I was entrusted to some leadership role...twice, (because I fall into the "weirdly weird" category).


(*it doesn;t happen on the U. People are rational enough (or perhaps started to know what power-hungry is *)

And yeah, what I want to write again? Oh yeah, Puan Kiran... Yeah, I talked about how my lecturer, Pn Kiran, hated the element of assumption. But unfortunately she doesn't know, that my future career is related to engineering field. And after years of enrolling in an engineering course, I noticed one thing~ engineers love to make assumption (like how mathematician did~)


(that explains why Pn Kiran is stuck teaching instead of working in an engineering field, she hates assumption)

We engineers, in some (or lots) of cases, we love to make assumption like "assume this variable/effect is negligible, assume a steady state condition, assume this *constant* to be some constant value *number* , assume this item is isotropic and etc etc etc*

And things get even fun when you are told to make an "educated assumption", and your solution will be based on your assumption. Just yesterday, I was involved in solving some question that involves some scary geometry because a lot of shitty variable has to be accounted, and the final solution is getting awkward...until

the TA say "thickness is negligible in your calculation. Just include this fact in your assumption and you have a much simpler solution". Whee!

And so, I was thinking...If we could just make assumptions on these kind of questions~...(note, technicality incoming)

Problem 1-assume a negligible value
Given this piece of metal with these dimensions x length, y width and z height, with constant k(thermal conductivity), with difference of temperature (y). Find the heat conduction rate~
My assumption: Heat conduction rate in the above problem is assumed to be negligible

Answer: Zero

Justification: Often time, when we do engineering analysis, we have to omit some term (by making some engineering assumption), so that the algebra involved is much easier. Also, some term are omitted because they meant to illustrate some relationship between 2 variables. There might also be cases when a particular variable will involve you a lot of calculation, yet giving an answer that is close to zero. Or (maybe most of the time), they just want to save time printing and writing textbook, and the textbook writer hates calculus

Don't do this: Because when the question ask you to find x, you say x is negligible and proceed to give a zero as answer. This is like "hey, I am asking you whether you stole my money" and you answer "in this case, your money is negligible.......and proceed to say, zero is my answer"

Problem 2-assume a constant value
Given this piece of metal with these dimensions x length, y width and z height, with constant k(thermal conductivity), with difference of temperature (y). Find the heat conduction rate~

My assumption: I assume that heat conduction rate is a constant value of 1

Answer : 1

Justification: Sometimes, textbook knows that you have to solve a 3rd-4th order of differential equation, and thus, they provide you with some constant so that you could save some time and instead solving for things that really mattered

Don't do this: Because when question asked you to solve , they are asking you to SOLVE the answer, not ASSUMING the answer



Problem 3-assume a working conditionsGiven this piece of metal with these dimensions x length, y width and z height, with constant k(thermal conductivity), with difference of temperature (y). Assume the conduction rate to be TWO dimensional. Find net conduction rate on point (x,y)

My assumption: I assume that the conduction rate is ONE dimensional (f**k it, two dimensional type of question is hard)

Justification : One dimensional type of problem involves a simple plug in into formula work while two dimensional type of problem involves shitty differential equation stuff that gonna makes you bang the wall. Therefore, in most engineering condition, we love 1D heat analysis than 2D heat analysis, but sometimes, people had to go through some shitty 2D conduction rate calculation because an accurate answer is needed

Don't do this: Because you are basically changing the question


Problem 4 - Deriving a formula
Given this piece of metal with these dimensions x length, y width and z height, with constant k(thermal conductivity), with difference of temperature (y). Derive the formula for heat conduction rate

My assumption : Since I bring my textbook, I know what the formula is

Answer  : (copy from textbook, skipping those derivation process)

Justification: There's always a lot of exam question asking you to derive formulas, while you are thinking 'WTF other engineers/mathematician had derived this thing before, found us the formula, and print it in textbook. (possibly getting some nobel prizes in the process)" So why did you want me to repeat this whole shit again! Well, deriving it, often or not, test whether you understand the working concept and algebra behind the formula, so that you won't end up as some engineer that only know how to memorize formula.

Don't do this: Because "deriving a formula IS NOT copying a formula"



Problem 5 - Reality, dude, reality!
In a circuit, a resistor of 5ohm is connected to a 6000Volts power source, find the current in resistor

My assumption: In reality , when you connect a high voltage power source to a low resistance resistor, the resistor is going to explode/fried...

Answer: 0, the resistor is fried

Justification: You might be true in trality case, but then again, how many textbook questions are based on reality ? They just want to train your problem solving skill

Don't do this: Because  1.)you are inferring how stupid the person that write the exam question, and 2.) you did not solve the question. Expect a mad professor to give you a fail grade because of that answer alone. 


Problem 6- My answer is always right  
Given this piece of metal with these dimensions x length, y width and z height, with constant k(thermal conductivity), with difference of temperature (y). Find the heat conduction rate~

Answer: My answer will be the correct solution

Justification: Ok, this is just not going to work

Don't do this: Unless you want to get a fail grade in your exam

Happy Chinese New Year, or wait...

You sure the word Happy is the right word here?

And wait, I just thought of the best greeting card I can have for this year

Hi there. Happy Chinese New Year. Although you have a writing assignment due today, fluid mechanics and heat transfer homework next week, 1 quiz and 1 midterm due next week.....dang the card was not long enough. But still, HAPPY Chinese New Year

I can say that my Chinese New Year in Malaysia are more awesome than this sh*t........or wait...

===3 Years Ago===

Me    : It's a good weekend, dang, why am i waking up so early, zzzz
Mom : Work! It's the OMG Chinese new Year. Get your shirt and work ready, and yeah, btw, don't wear    black shirt during work
Me    : Hey, I had to went back to Shah Alam after....
Mom : Ok, 5 more minutes and we gonna move..
Me    : Ok... Wait me to bath...

===5 Years Ago===

Worker A: I get like total of RM200 from all the customer I served . Some customer just gone apeshit and keep giving huge amount of angpau. It's RM20 per angpau. Dang, this is awesome....

Worker B: Huh. This is something that happens often, this happens like 3 times a day during chinese New Year. hey, Ah hong, how much you get...

Me         : RM2...( No wonder no one was there when things get really apeshit. You guys leave your post and leave all those shit for me to handle)


===3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 Years and on going===

Me         : Why we have to work during Chinese New Year
Mom      : No money. That's why

                                 (humming) Money don't grow on trees, I've got bills to pay, i got mouth's to feed.....(Ain't no rest for the wicked)

===4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years===

Me and friends : Happy Chinese New Year, wait, why there's no one in the house?
Friend A          : Dunno, I heard he/she went relative house / overseas to celebrate Chinese New Year

===(Happen every goddamn years)===

Me : Shit, just how many homeworks left. Ow shit, fine, guess I just don't submit....


===(Happen somewhere in childhood year)===

Mom : Don't steal the kuih kapit anymore
Me    : Ok (snatch another piece)
Mom : IF U WAN TO STEAL THAT MUCH, EAT THE WHOLE CAN!
Me    : (keep eating)

===(Years to Come after the event)===

Me    : Sorry, I don't like kuih kapit. I don't even know. I hate it even I smell it...


It's just some recollection of those "good 'ol days of my chinese new year. And being a negative attractor, you couldn't blame me for thinking those stuff first. I mean, those events always stand up than "celebrate cny by eating together,  spring cleaning, playing firecrackers and etc"

And yeah, I noticed that people in Malaysia start rearing rabbit because today is rabbit year (I presume). Just to let those people know, rabbit is sensitive to its environment, and unless you have the effort of rearing rabbit instead of spamming Happy CNY in facebook, it's not a good idea. For one thing, many more rabbits will die (by human hand) in rabbit year compared to other years.

This is the habitat rabbit should belong!

Well, this flurry little thing eminates nothing but cuteness and fluffiness. Rabbit, as much as I want to rear you, I know it's better to see you running in some random green field than a cage, or ermm....can i rear a squirrel instead?

And wait, if you really need the presence of rabbit that much. I suggest there's one "rabbit" that will do the job way better than this fluffy guy. 

Free ads: You want cute, sexy, wild, fluffy. We all have it. Rabbit? Sure, you can call them anything you want. Chick, honey and hey, rabbit sounds a good idea! c