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Archive for June 2008

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No, You Didn’t Ask, But So What?
Some thoughts:

During some of my moods, I’m not a great lover of people. At those times, the poor human verisimilitude provided by automated telephone menus makes me, in no uncertain terms, want to kill all of you.
Ladies: If you’re wearing shoes that look uncomfortable, e.g., you look like [...]

Holy (No.) One

George Carlin died yesterday, at the age of 71. It’s hard to estimate Carlin’s value in the Western culture; his Seven Words are, today, somewhat less powerful than they were in 1972, and no matter his one-time popularity, their deflation is not significantly his doing, I think. At his height, TV love scenes [...]

Short Form

Even sloppy math must take as its precedent the axioms it aims to employ. Every pragmatist must underpin her decision structure, however loosely, on the same combinatorial landscape as does every idealist.
Sloppiness works, and sometimes it works better than fastidiousness. Still, don’t think you can, through a focus on expediency, escape the need [...]

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