The cartoon is from the genius of David Hayward.
Traditionally we do jokes, puns, and riddles as an intro to the weekly random linkage. This week I thought we’d try brain teasers — post your solutions in the comments below.
- A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening when he comes back, if it is a rainy day or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment. Can you explain why?
- A square medieval castle on a square island is under siege. All around the castle there is a square moat 10 meters wide. Due to an unfortunate miscalculation, the raiders have brought footbridges to cross the moat, but each one is only 9.5 meters long. The invaders cannot abandon their campaign and return empty-handed — how can they resolve their predicament?
- Three Masters of Logic wanted to find out who was the wisest amongst them, so they turned to their Grand Master, asking him to resolve their dispute. “Alright,” the old sage said, “I will blindfold you all and paint either a red or a blue dot on each man’s forehead. When I take your blindfolds off, if you see at least one red dot, raise your hand. The one who guesses the color of the dot on his own forehead first will win.” So it was said, and so it was done. The Grand Master blindfolded the three contestants and painted red dots on every one. When he took their blindfolds off, all three men raised their hands according to the rules, then sat in silence pondering. Finally, one of them said: “I have a red dot on my forehead.” How did he know?
Okay, answer below. Next is of course the weekly linkage:
- CBC Manitoba – Flood Watch 2009 — good information on past flooding along the Red River as well as current updates and explanation of an ice jam, lots of photos.
- Grace asks some good questions, which reminded me of A Few Words on the Inevitability of the Incarnation
- Still doubt the revolution? Wikipedia has just killed Encarta.
- Please scrape off those bumper-stickers. You’re giving the rest of us a bad name.
- Scot McKnight on the Golden Rule
- Must-read: Bill Kinnon on NPD and Church Leaders
- Follow the linkage of Jordon Cooper, From $10 Trillion to $23 Trillion in Debt
- “Ivan Illich was once asked what the most radical way to change society was; was it violent revolution or gradual reform? He gave a careful answer. Neither. Rather, he suggested that if one wanted to change society, then one must tell an alternative story.” — from Alan Hirsch’s post, changing the story part III
- The Digital Karl Barth Library
- A brief solid quote on Affirming Christian Diversity — and what binds us together.
- Christine Sine offers Reflections on a Rhythm of Life, springboarding from the quote, “A rhythm of life is an innovative way of expressing the Christian faith in the context of contemporary culture.”
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I really enjoy Terry O’Reilly’s take on advertising and marketing in The Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio. Last week’s episode on Selling God takes a look at the intersection of faith and marketing, and is worth a listen. Terry’s definition of the megachurch alone suggests to me that he “gets it.”
- I love John’s gospel, so I took note of Tony Stiff’s post on Three studies on the Gospel of John: Bauckham, Keener, and Newbigin I’ve read Bauckham and Keener, but not Newbigin on John… will have to try and put my hands on that one.
- Top ten corporate April Fool’s pranks and Six of the best April Fool’s Tech Jokes. And some more pranks, and still more good ones online. Or there’s this comic, and Ed Cyzewski’s amusing contribution.
- Book Freshener Adds Some Real Life Smells to Your E-books
- Why I don’t listen to Christian radio
- Brian McLaren: Six Stages of the Emerging Church Conversation
- New blog: Missions, Misunderstood — as recommended by Bob Hyatt
- Think on this one: Jesus Went to Georgia
- The Burning Question: How Do We Lead Existing Communities Forward to Embrace Mission? Yes, it is.
- Peter Rollins, in brief: God, Man, & Story
- Why Jason Clark won’t declare he is a Christian
- I thought this only happened in movies… but I bet you can’t watch this 4-minute video clip without smiling; filmed at the Central train station in Antwerp, Belgium.
- The Hierachy Of Tweets – Analysing the Psychology of Twitter (via Bob Carlton)
1. He likes the exercise.
2. They can dig an outlet for the moat and empty it. Thus crossing on dry land. OR … cut one or more footbridges into parts and create extensions for the other footbridges so they’ll be long enough.
3. If all of them raised their hands, then all of them had a red dot. Or maybe he was just guessing, because he didn’t want to feel left out.
1. nope.
2. there’s a much easier way.
3. no, not a guess — he solved it with logic.
P.S. In regards to bumper stickers, here’s one I saw the other day. It was blood red with black letters. It read:
Jesus will return on
May 21, 2011
Judging by that, I guess we all need to get our affairs in order. I’m still in wonderment about the definitiveness of that statement.
BroM,
Thanks for including the link to your post on incarnation. I remember reading it before, but I really enjoyed reading it again because I’m on a bit of a John 1- incarnation-perichoresis binge.
1. How short do you have to be in order to only reach the #7 button without an umbrella or a taller person to push the #10 for you?
2. A foot bridge over the corner of the moat (from outside to outside) would be close enough to allow a 9.5 metre bridge to go from it to the inside of the moat.
3. If I am one of the men I look up and see two red dots. If I had a blue dot one of those guys would be able to immediately deduce that theirs was red because if his was blue the other guy would not be able to raise his hand indicating he saw a red. Since neither man could automatically make that deduction I must have a red dot causing them both to remain in confusion. Any one of the three men could have come to this conclusion so the one who did was clearly the smartest man.
Well done, Jon — three for three!
I always enjoy your random linkages.