"Every one of us is losing something precious to us," he says after the phone stops ringing. "Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks
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In quantum teleportation, the sender, normally called Alice, instantaneously transfers information about the quantum state of a particle to a receiver called Bob. The uncertainty principle means that Alice cannot know the exact state of her particle. However, another feature of
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"When I visit you and the moon Isn't around to show me the way, Comets of longing set my heart So much ablaze, the earth is lit By the holocaust under my ribs." --Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf
Nicole and I decided to do a pool party this afternoon. Granted, it was just for the two of us, but still, we ordered pizza, hooked up the stereo, had lemonade, the works. I think I might have underestimated how cold the pool was going to be, so the initial shock of that was kinda painful. I'd say the whole pool stint in itself lasted for about
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We're eating carrots in ranch dressing and a can of black olives. We found out that the "peeled mini carrot" bag "contains carrots" - a helpful bit of information that had aided us in figuring out that the carrots that we were purchasing did indeed contain carrots. Until Nicole was a tard and spilled them all over the floor. Nicole has put both
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