May 2011 | wodeces

Monday, May 30, 2011

Homeownership

New research shows over 60% of the financial collapse's toxic assets were created by power drills.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Sports

Also, all financial analysis. And, more directly, D&D.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Extended Mind

Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

Monday, May 23, 2011

Darmok and Jalad

I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Temperature

And the baby has a fever.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Religions

But to us there is but one God, plus or minus one. --1 Corinthians 8:6±2.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Number Line

The Wikipedia page "List of Numbers" opens with "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."

Friday, May 13, 2011

Chain of Command

Themistocles said his infant son ruled all Greece -- "Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her." Thus, nowadays the world is controlled by whoever buys advertising time on Dora the Explorer.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Elevator Inspection

Even governmental elevator inspectors get bored halfway through asking where the building office is.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Marie Curie

Although not permanently.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Teaching Physics

Space-time is like some simple and familiar system which is both intuitively understandable and precisely analogous, and if I were Richard Feynman I'd be able to come up with it.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Progeny

I tell my children 'it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' I'm trying to take the edge off their competitive drive to ensure that I can always beat them.

Monday, May 2, 2011

65 Years

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.