Thursday, 29 May 2014

Pizza time!

Yesterday it was my birthday, and apparently it is now customary to write a facebook post saying "happy brthday". I don't usually do that because I know another 500 people are going to do exactly the same thing so I just "like" one of the posts. Doesn't that give the same impression of wishing a happy birthday as the actual post? Anyways... that's not my point here.


The point is, and apparently most of my friends know this, that I was expected to eat a lot of pizza. I guess the regular thing to do is to have some cake, I don't have anything against cake... except chocolate cake. But I can't say no to pizza. My favourite food is pizza and if given a choice pizza always wins. That reminds me that I believe that one doesn't really have a "favourite something" one has a favourite random variable to prefer a favourite something and when asked or forced into selection one generates a sample from that distribution... sort of a quantum preference: at any given time one's preferences are given by a probability distribution and when forced to select, the preference collapses into one single choice, but anyways... that's not my point.


My point is that for me the food preference probability distribution is heavily condensed in pizza. What pizza is a proper statistical question that I won't go into details here but the modes are pepperoni and mushrooms and onion, peppers, olives, and pepperoni. I'm not a nutritionist but I can understand that how if I ate a whole pizza in one night won't be considered a healthy thing. But with the right ingredients, a decent amount, and at a proper time I don't see why it shouldn't be considered healthy. Now I remembered that apparently people are now using interchangeably the terms "vegetarian" with "healthy" which are clearly not necessarily the same thing and even worse the term "organic food" used to refer to food produced with organic pesticides. So now there are tomatoes and organic tomatoes, how ridiculous does that sound? The term organic actually means that is carbon based, but anyways... that's not my point here.


My point is that I believe that pizza once in a while is a healthy thing. Yes, I used to eat pizza every Monday and Tuesday and I did this for a whole year... not healthy at all, but I now have healthier habits. That reminds me that now every time I go back to Mexico it is actually weird to drink still water, and I mean plain still water. Although one of my fattest friends has been doing this for a long time, and there was even a time in which he wasn't fat and went running with us every weekend. I don't know what happened to him... but that's not my point here.


To be honest, I don't think I have a point in all these. So if you want to have a pizza, be my guest. By the way, there are several maths related pizza problems out there. Here's one... I might find some more problems later on...

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