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I'm going to miss you. Sometimes cheerful, sometimes angry, sometimes miserable, but always insightful ( Read more... ) -
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Here's a meme that's going around, and one I can get behind:
Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow. -
New year's resolution.
Of all the new Year's resolutions I've ever made, this year's has been the hardest to keep.
The things that have to be done a little at a time on a regular basis, like ten minutes a day -- Do them.What kinds of things? Things like reviewing Japanese vocabulary. Ten minutes a day is enough to keep one learning. Spending five hours in a single ( Read more... ) -
The day the world was not destroyed
about a decade or so ago, someone in the Russian defense system decided that although their electronics were indicating a massive nuclear attack by the Americans, he reported to his superiors that there was nothing special going on. And so the world was spared ( Read more... ) -
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Let me quote Hermann Weyl:
The continuum of real numbers has retained its ancient prerogative in physics for the expression of physical measurements, but it can justly be maintained that the essence of the new Heisenberg-Schrödinger-Dirac quantum mechanics is to be found in the fact that there is associated with each physical system a set of ( Read more... ) -
Day 15: clover.
To get something to grow in my front lawn so that the rain doesn't wash all the ground away, I planted clover a week or two ago. Now there are little green dots showing up in the bare patches. They're pretty. They're growing where the grass won't. But within some of the bare patches, the clover seeds have been washed to one side by the rain ( Read more... )