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There is a passage in the Bible that refers to the coming of Jesus as the long awaited prophet told by Moses around 1500 BC.

Deut 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

Deut 18:16 This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.”

Deut 18:17 The LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.”

Deut 18:18 “I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.”

While some argues that a certain descendant of Ishmael is the one whom Moses spoke of, the relative comparison is all fleshly. Jesus, on the other hand, is just like Moses in the spiritual comparison.

• Exo 1:22 Pharaoh commanded mass slaughter to kill Moses.
• Matt 2:16 Herod commanded mass slaughter to kill Jesus.
• The descendant of Ishmael had no such threats in his childhood.

• Exo 33:11 God spoke and gave revelations to Moses directly.
• John 12:49-50 God spoke and gave revelations to Jesus directly.
• The descendant of Ishmael received revelations via an angel.

• Exo 4:14-16 Moses had Aaron to pave his way.
• John 1:23 Jesus had John to pave his way.
• The descendant of Ishmael came out from the cave spooked by angel and still no one directly appointed by God to support his appointment!

• Exo 14:21 Moses performed signs and wonders.
• Matt 8:27 Jesus performed signs and wonders.
• The descendant of Ishmael had neither credible signs nor wonders. Even if he did split the moon, it didn’t bring mankind any benefit.

• Deut 4:13 God used Moses to introduce a covenant by flesh and Law.
• Luke 22:20 God used Jesus to introduce a new covenant by Spirit and grace.
• The descendant of Ishmael had nothing new to offer but reiterated and tainted the old covenant.

Jesus ministry was a lot like Moses in prophetic sense.

A holy God would more likely look upon the spiritual side of man, his ministry, and his direct relationship with Him.

Ponder upon this: Why would God’s reward in heaven be virgins for men, ever? Would a holy God be interested in man’s earthly desires, or would He restore men spiritually to be as in the time of the beginning such that he is holy and pure?

Religion has done much harm than good, but to be spiritual is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

In an unreasonable world, a reasonable apologetic tone must be heard.

There’s this puzzle called Einstein’s Riddle, also known as Zebra Puzzle, which is said to have been written by Albert Einstein as a boy, and the common claim is that 98% of the world’s population wouldn’t be able to solve it.

There is no known evidence that Einstein authored the puzzle, and there are several versions of it. One such puzzle goes like this:

There are five houses painted in five different colors. There are five different nationalities. Each drinks a different drink, smokes a different cigar, and keeps a different pet.

Given rules:

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps a dog.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall keeps a bird.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to one who keeps a cat.
11. The man who keeps a horse lives next to a Dunhill smoker.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is who owns the fish?

There isn’t any direct evidence that only the top 2% of the world’s population would be able to solve it. Give it a try. This is a logic puzzle. No tricks.

While this puzzle may seem fairly similar to a game of Sudoku, it distinguishes the logical mathematician with a logical non-mathematician. I agree that maths reveals a person’s logical thinking capability, but logic can stand on its own.

Sarcasm is only funny when it is logical.

While Sudoku can drive some to commit seppuku, this game of Zebra Puzzle is just as challenging and less lethal to the delicate minds. Nevertheless, just as interesting.

Here’s the solution. There may be other ways to solve the problem, this is mine. Based on 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 14, we get:

Norwegian		Brit
	Blue	Red	Green	White
		Milk	Coffee

Rule 9 and 14 are immediate known constants. We know green house is in column 4 because column 2 is populated by blue house, and based on rule 8 column 3 must be a milk drinker, whereas rule 5 tells us that green house drinks coffee.

Next, based on rule 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 15 we can derive the following:

Norwegian	Dane	Brit
Yellow	Blue	Red	Green	White
Water	Tea	Milk	Coffee	Beer
Dunhill	Blends			Blue Master
Cat	Horse

The reason why the Dane goes into column 2 instead of column 5 is because rule 12 suggests a beer drinker and Blue Master smoker with no neighboring water drinker. Based on rule 15, someone has to smoke Blends and has a neighbor who drinks water. Then since all the other columns have a known beverage drinker, the Norwegian must be the water drinker. And a Dane fitting rule 15 fits rule 10 too.

You may ask then, why doesn’t rule 10 fit column 3? It’s because rule 6 states that Pall Mall and bird goes together and the only column that would fit both rules is column 3. Next, we study rule 2, 6, and 13.

Norwegian	Dane	Brit	German	Swede
Yellow	Blue	Red	Green	White
Water	Tea	Milk	Coffee	Beer
Dunhill	Blends	Pall Mall	Prince	Blue Master
Cat	Horse	Bird		Dog

Pall Mall and bird goes hand in hand, so column 3 is the place where it would fit. Rule 13 would only fit in column 4 thus making it German and leaves us column 5 with rule 2. Therefore, the answer to the question who owns the fish is the German.

Sometimes, I find it hard to explain logic in a verbal sentence. Especially when explaining program’s codes. A single logical thought, translated, expands into multiple sentences in any form of verbal communication in any human language.

In my personal opinion, the best conveyor of logic is still and will always be a computer programming syntax or a mathematical equation; easy to read, hard to verbalize.

Tiffen FL-D lens. It’s cheap. It’s entry-level. It’s the wrong size.

A fluorescent filter lens is used to correct green color tones that appear when taking a photo where fluorescent light source is present. FL-D is a day filter, for daylight type of fluorescent lamps.

I acquired it on-line for almost 18 dollars, but the unit price tagged on the lens casing is 14.99. Weasels they are. And I still had to pay additional shipping fees! Also, there’s couple of smudged fingerprints on the lens that I couldn’t remove and it seems like it’s stuck between the mirrors.

And finally, if that’s not awful enough, it’s the wrong size! I mistakenly placed an order for 55mm instead of 58mm.

Tiffen lenses aren’t bad. It may be cheap (at least the ones I bought) but it produces result. The photo above was taken with a circular polarizer attached on macro mode.

So, 55m FL-D lens anyone?