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42
Upon being carded at the liquor store the other day, it occured to me: at 42 I have now been over 21 for 21 years.
A bit sad, but mostly amusing. -
The Infinite Pie
Well, not that sort of pie, the other sort, spelled pi; the circumference of a circle, divided by its diameter. It is almost equal to 3.14159, but not quite. Pi is represented by the Greek letter of the same name, , and is what is known as an irrational number, which means that it cannot be expressed as the ration of any two whole numbers, for ( Read more... ) -
Ninja’s!!!
Filed under funny kid sayings. We were watching Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations last night and it was the episode where he went to Saudi Arabia ( Read more... ) -
Possibly the most terrifying thing I have ever read
Especially topical considering the Mar’s rover landing… yet more musings on Existential Risk by Nick Bostrom
WHY I HOPE THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FINDS NOTHING -
Recommended Harry Potter fan fiction
I ran across this fan fiction a few weeks ago, and it ate pretty much a week of my life…
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality I had expectations of blog-level writing with expositions of philosophy, epistemology, teleology, etc. tacked-on to a spotty Harry Potter story. What I got, instead, was a complete retelling of the story that is, ( Read more... ) -
Science! Friday
Check out my entry for the Create the Future Design Contest Register and vote for me if you like, or browse some of the other good (and not so good) ideas out there. Some are clever, some pure fluff, some bad, one or two are actually rather horrifying (I am looking at you, Ozone therapy ( Read more... ) -
Musings on Morality
I have been reading a few blogs this week, and it has prompted me to do a little bit of writing on my own. I thought I would put up a few of my blog comments on my own account.
Reading the Unequally Yoked blog by Leah Libresco, I had this to say in reponse to her statement, "Any halfway decent moral system should be able to argue that female ( Read more... ) -
Convergence VII - Fashion Show - Holy Crap
The long lost CVIII fashion show video has at last been dug from the archives of my boxes of crap (some of which have, I am ashamed to admit, passed through three moves without unpacking ( Read more... ) -
Simulationist Dream #01
I had an interesting dream the other night ( Read more... )
