Closure

I thought I'd share a really lame joke that Shaun told in our PBL tute today (guess you had to be there):

"There are two types of people in this world. Those who don't need closure, and........................"

I think I'm the second type ><"

I found out that a high school friend recently changed his first name. As in he had it legally changed, from his old korean name, to "Mark". Apparently he had a friend who had difficulty getting a job after graduation, but once he changed his name he got a job. So the parents of "Mark", being the typical asian parents paranoid about racist aussie bosses, forced him to change his name too. But in thinking that a name change was the key in getting that other guy his job, I think they are confusing association with causation. An example would be if you look at all the people that had a car accident in the past year, and see how many of them ate bread on the same day of their accident. It isn't unreasonable to assume that perhaps half of them ate bread, so statistically you could say that eating bread is associated with car accidents (as ludicrous as it sounds). But can you say that eating bread actually causes car accidents? Of course not (unless it were alcholic bread or something haha). Anyway, I think I'll still call "Mark" by his old name. I wonder what name I would pick if i were to change mine.