Funny

Ok, I'm officially a geek. I think the funniest joke in this contest is the following:

"Two functions, x^2 and e^x are walking down the street. Off in the distance they see a differential operator walking towards them. e^x turns to x^2 and tells him: "You better get out of here! If that operator differentiates you a few times you'll disappear, but he can differentiate me all he wants and I'll stay the same."

So x^2 runs off and e^x goes to greet the differential operator. "Hi, I'm e^x" he says. "What's your name?"

The operator looks at him with a demonic grin and says: "d/dy"."

Ok, I haven't read all the jokes, just most of them till the point where I got bored.

Somebody actually explains the joke for people who's brains don't run on math :
"For those with non-mathematical backgrounds:

d(e^x)/dy = 0, so e^x will be differentiated into oblivion (as he warned x^2, but presuming it would be a d/dx differentiator: d(x^2)/dx = 2x, d(2x)/dx = 2, d(2)/dx = 0, d(0)/dy = 0, etc.) instead of staying d(e^x)/dx = e^x, etc. NB also d(x^2)/dy = 0, so x^2 was right for running off in either case."

Later edit: (please, give this post a second chance..) Second funnyest (not so geeky, but supposedly funny of you're a grad student) : "How many grad students does it take to change a light bulb? One, but it takes 7 years."

Just to get started

The main reason why I haven't started blogging in English sooner is that I'm lasy. But now I have too many friends that can't read in Romanian and are curious about what I'm usually writing about. Alright, this should get me started on posting stuff pretty much everybody can understand (or not, if I'll get into technical details about computer science, which I may sometimes :) ).

Note: I'm still in the process of learning English and a secondary reason for my writing here is to practice that and learn how to express myself in a coherent manner. So any corrections are welcomed.