There’s a famous murphysm:

If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage. (Wisdom and Humor: The Suslick Research Group)

This happens with food a lot: if you put something of poor quality (even a small quantity) in a big bowl of food, you ruin the food.

But if you try to do the reverse, to put something of good quality in a large bowl of low-quality food, the food is still low quality.

Don’t try to fix what’s unfixable.

Murphy was right all along.

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In Heroes of Might & Magic III sometimes there are bugs, such as: Fire Wall magic.

I treat it as a bug, as the computer tends to behave strangely when it is cast.

Sometimes, the computer loses battles because it focuses so much at not losing small battles, that it loses the big battle.

Should you use this bug? Most likely, yes, but I would treat it as a cheat.

I tend not to use such shortcuts, as they are at the border between cheating and finding a bug.

In life, people tend do focus a lot on bugs, sometimes ignoring the big battles.

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If I go to the beach and use a machine that is legal to use (Ski jets on water), but I do disturb others, so it might not be ethical.

If I go to an ice cream shop and I buy a product, even if my purchase helps keeping that company alive, I think it’s rather ethical, as I don’t disturb others. It’s a vice for which I pay myself.

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Sometimes, I go to events. I recently went to a concert at Cazino Constanța.

We couldn’t go early enough to get some good places, so we stayed outside the event area.

I noticed that if I stay close enough to the event, two things happen:

#1 The music is louder, and easier to follow;

#2 People, by respect, get quieter, and, again, the event is easier to follow.

There are only good parts in getting closer to the stage.

PS: This means I found out that sitting in the front at an event helps. :)

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