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Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.] From whiskey river: This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. (Dag Hammarskjöld [source]) …and: Ch’ui the draftsman Could draw more [...]
The Kindness of Every Split-Second
[Image: display window of "mini-prints" taken with the Fujifilm Instax camera (originally from the Photojojo store). See note at bottom of post for more.] From whiskey river: You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was [...]
The History of English, in Ten(ish) Minutes
When I was a sophomore in high school — this was just a plain old everyday public high school, not a school for high-achieving nerds or anything — our English teacher let us write an end-of-year research paper on any topic we liked. I have no idea why, of all possible subjects, at the age [...]
When Non-English-Speaking Sp*mmers and Roget Collide
Sp*m comment o’the day: I’m not lily-livered of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not match to an idea. This is the primary error of the pretended “scientific” mind. People who howler facts for ideas are undone thinkers; they are gossip. I’m not scared of facts, I appreciated facts but a [...]
Perfect Moments: “I Shot ‘im, Paw.”
The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there — foxes, a [...]
When Cats and Boxes Converge…
…the boxes lose. [hat tip: Eschaton] _____________________ P.S. A follow-up video is called “The box which Maru can’t enter.” Oh, yes, Maru can.
Victims of Fashion (Men’s Department)
Someone, no doubt, has taken a census of active bloggers and other social-media types, focusing on gender. I don’t know what the breakdown might be; maybe I’m stereotyping at least one sex, if not both, but I would not be surprised to learn that more women than men contribute to the ebb and flow of [...]
Getting Through the Day (and Knowing It)
[Image: xkcd.com #324. The image's title attribute there says, "Sometimes the best fun looks like boredom." (Click image to enlarge.)] From whiskey river: Questions Before Dark Day ends, and before sleep when the sky dies down, consider your altered state: has this day changed you? Are the corners sharper or rounded off? Did you live [...]
Real-Life Dialogue: Return of the Bathroom Talker
It’s been a long time since I last posted about this guy. Not that I’ve had no further interaction with him, no. It’s just that all further interaction with him has been of the same unvarying sort. Nothing new to report. And I’ve also gotten cleverer about avoiding him. But this latest example just pushed [...]
