a physics professor at the university of central florida used a simple mathematical proof specifically to spoil our fun on the greatest holiday of the year:

(professor costas) efthimiou's debunking logic: on jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. if the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by feb. 1, 1600. a month later there would have been four, and so on. in just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on.

what professor fun-trampler hasn't considered is that we are all vampires that have evolved past the necessity for ingestion of human blood. mr. smarty pants doesn't look so smart now, does he?

here is the story: vampires a mathematical impossibility, scientist says
and here's a link to a pdf file that efthimiou wrote: ghosts, vampires and zombies (read this one! it's awesome.)

according to the second one, it looks like zombification may have actually occurred in haiti.

happy halloween everyone!

*EDIT: also, if you consider yourself a baseball fann at all, you need to see the video my roommate recently posted on his blog. it's excellent. titled on another red sox related note.

seriously. watch.

listen, i refuse to believe any of these lies. vampires are real.