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A most worthwhile exercise
I dare you (yes you, who are reading this), to read out loud the Preface to The Second Brain by Michael D. Gershon (same link as my last post) in the most flamboyant and excited manner you can muster ( Read more... ) -
Wikipedia dream
I had a dream in which people teleported through Wikipedia links. Two friends of mine were going to play a tennis game in Kent, but one got stranded where he didn't expect to be because he didn't disambiguate correctly, so we had to go find him. -
Oklahoma!
So, I went to see Oklahoma! It was the first musical the Rogers and Hammerstein collaborated on ( Read more... ) -
my definition is
So, I listened to the radio for only a few minutes today, and what do I hear? A song that goes:
my definition
my definition
my definition is this
my definition
my definition
my definition is this
my definition
my definition is this
my definition
I decided on the spot that it must be about OED innuendo. I looked up the lyrics when I got home and ( Read more... ) -
the big dic
"That is a big dic."
"The biggest."
"It just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
"I reach for it all the time."
"It's so satisfying."
"And it's more than hundred years old."
"And it keeps growing with usage."
"All the others are pale imitators."
This conversation brought to you by the Corrump Society for OED Innuendo. Speak wordy to me baby! -
Quotes of the day
"I want to be a nose plane pirate when I grow up."
"The condom market has a lot of barriers to entry." -
lunar eclipse
There will be a lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning. Perhaps I'll see it. -
dream about artificial lungs and knees and circulatory system
I had a dream in which adding artificial blood vessels and an artificial circulatory system to artificial lungs and artificial knees made them more effective. The circulatory system didn't have to hook up to the end user's own blood and what not, but somehow its presence helped things be better. It was like leaving them out from the modelling and ( Read more... ) -
Julian Barbour, Jane Jensen's Gray Matter
claporte points out an article about the possibility that time does not exist. It reminds me of an interview of Julian Barbour I read a while ago on Edge.org. Julian Barbour is a theoretical physicist who is interested in "how the powerful impression of the passage of time can arise in a timeless world." He makes a living as a translator, and does ( Read more... )