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First of all, Yelp is awesome! I showed interest in this event in NYC and I got emails when anyone posted a conversation bit. Soon, I saw someone giving out free tickets and I humbly requested for some and next thing I know is dear Jane snail mailed me a couple of free tickets! So, I pulled Aks for a day out to NYC which was, for a change, donning bright sun light this weekend. The ‘Tea and Coffee festival‘ was taking place conveniently in Midtown and I just needed a cool break.
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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
~Alphonse Allais

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.
~Star Trek: Voyager

Chocolate, men and coffee – some things are better rich.
~Author Unknown

Drinking decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
~Bob Irwin

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
~Dick Gregory

Did you ever have the feeling that the world was an AC coffee pot and you were DC?
~Alan Dean Foster

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
~Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I think if I were a woman I’d wear coffee as a perfume.
~ John Van Druten

some interesting observations as mentioned by Andrew W. Luo (MIT, finance) in his talk about efficient markets hypothesis-

While too much emotions hampers an efficient judgemental process, a balance between emotions and reasoning is required to keep a human involved and focussed on his work. A lack of emotional sensitivity may lead to loss of focus on the given task and consequentially the person may spend way too much time on the task at hand.

The prof interestingly correlated the results to the triune structure of human brain consisting of 3 key components- reptilian brain, mammalian brain and cortex (primate brain). Primate brain gives the human capabilities such as planning, logic, analytics etc while mammalian brain handles emotions. Reptilian brain is responsible for very basic and integral functionalities such as temperature control, hunger etc. The responses by three parts supercede others in following order: reptilian > mammalian > cortex. As a result, if any of the mammalian brain controlled action is triggered it gets precedence over primatal functioning. Hence, a trigger of emotions leads to impaired logic => love makes the person stupid

On the other hand, damage to mammalian brain causes lack of emotional responsiveness in a person and even though he may be judgementally sound due to a healthy cortex, he may not enjoy doing anything!