December 2009
2 posts
Album concept: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen sing each other’s songs.
There’s three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can’t. (Cf. http://bit.ly/trinary-paradox.)
August 2009
2 posts
Hands are the remotes of brains.
I eat my peas with honey,
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But what the hell.
July 2009
4 posts
Evolution psychology say: Love is means, not goal.
Smart people think it’s wrong to like someone because they’re beautiful, but not because they’re smart. Smart people can make up or be convinced by arguments about why these cases aren’t the same.
Hodgmina (not)
John Hodgman’s daughter is in my daughter’s summer camp. Her name is not “Hodgmina”.
This make me wonder whether some of the other things in his book may also not be true.
[My wife points out that maybe he has another daughter.]
Mail Order Chocolates
Instant gratification worth waiting for.
June 2009
3 posts
Right-handedness is lateral hemisemidemineglect.
God isn’t dead. In fact, that wasn’t even God.
If the days don’t feel like weeks, you’re doing it wrong.
May 2009
1 post
All links lead to Ted Nelson.
April 2009
1 post
How many words can you make out of the letters in “obsessive compulsive”?
March 2009
18 posts
Can a metametagod make a metagod who can’t make a god who can make a rock so heavy he can’t lift it?
Emotions are feelings from the neck up.
No two raindrops are not alike.
The Universe
No user-serviceable parts outside.
Guilt springs eternal from the mother’s heart.
Can I have my memories of watching Dollhouse removed to a tape?
The problem with Chomsky’s Minimalist Program isn’t that it’s physics envy; it’s that it’s string-theory envy.
If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel
Git is enough rope.
The unfinished sentence is not worth
The antepenult is the bronze medalist of syllables.
Britney’s songs are the Spandex of music — useful for aerobics, but embarrassing to be seen with.
Put cellphones in model airplanes, to nest in cell towers disguised as trees.
The Classical Athenians were to space (entasis) as the Nine Old Men were to time (squash, stretch,…)
Fuzzy Paradoxes
This sentence is almost true.
This sentence is almost false.
Descending tower of contradictions
The smallest number not expressible in under ten words.
Smallest number not expressible in under nine words.
Smallest not expressible in under eight words.
Not expressible in under seven words.
Not in under six words.
In under five words.
Under four words.
Under three.
Two.
Baby is Thwee
There’s two kinds of people. People who divide people into two kinds of people; people who don’t; and people who can’t count.
[Which am I?]
“Black is the new black” is the new black.
February 2009
5 posts
Things you don’t mind / things you don’t do / vary independently / in a 2x2.
Skepticism of parents’ advice is the teen’s meme vaccine.
It’s hard to be smart enough to know that you aren’t.
Imagine what a smart person would do, and do that.
Life is fair, just not to everyone.
May 2008
1 post
When you’re a hammer, everyone looks like a thumb.
March 2008
23 posts
I wish my online persona would take itself less seriously. However, my online persona is happy with the status quo.
The satirical press is training wheels for recognizing bias in the mainstream media.
Mmm, pork chops. How lucky to be / neither a vegetarian / nor a pig.
Cars on 116N at night / boats in ink / trailing wakes / of tethered light.
A productive day: seems like a week ago, the next day. A beautiful day: seems like a day ago, the next year.
I wanted to be old enough to wish I were younger. I wish I were young enough to want to be older.
Agile is the new Java.
False fact: 90% of a tree is below the surface.
The things that make me most productive are being online, and being offline.
When I’m not teaching, I have to work harder to find out what I think I know that I don’t.
C.E.Q.: ratio of Competence to Ego.
A stop sign is right eight times a day.
Slow motion beats no motion — adapted from Confucius