Hong’s Cave

I don’t know if it’s just me, but for the past several months, I think I am seeing a very interesting trend in the crude oil price and the gas pump price.
Take a look at this AP graph of the recent trend in the crude oil prices. Basically, it’s been hitting record high for [...]

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(I guess this would be one of many “unproven” theories of Hong’s…)
Quite a few of my friends, by now, are married and most of them have children. One thing I noticed was that a lot of those children were girls. One would think that the ratio of the sexes should be about equal [...]

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Okay, let’s get back to a more metaphysical analogy rubbish by yours truly… I like analogies, good ones I mean. Although they might not be the real things, they definitely help understand them.
This is a concept that I’ve been bouncing around in my head for a while. As with any other ideas I have here, [...]

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This is also one of those things that go back several years, but it came up again recently. And the interesting thing was one of my friends told me that I can probably get a grant to do a research on this subject…
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before, but one of the things that [...]

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I guess I haven’t told you about this theory yet, have I? It recently came up again in a conversation, so I might as well write it down here.
As grand as it might sounds, it’s a very informal analogy of a distribution curve to characteristics of a society, mostly used to compare a homogeneous [...]

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