May 2008
10 posts
Ooh.
May 30th
May 16th
The Believer - May 2007, because of The Codex Seraphinianus and an article which discusses the Schrödinger equation, cats of indeterminate health, Bohr, Borges, quantum suicide…yes, YES! - Errol Morris talks with Werner Herzog (here). -“A sort of debate between Arthur C. Clarke and Lawrence Weschler on the significance—for humanity, for the future, for the very notions of curiosity and...
May 13th
……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Who doesn’t love a good nudibranch:
May 13th
Job opportunities: 1. Private investigator (…) 2. Assistant beekeeper (…) 3. Hot air balloon ground crew (…)
May 12th
Red fleshed apples! Best with green skin. Apparently there are 23 varieties of red-fleshed apples and the fruit has extra antioxidants in the form of anthocyanins. Would be fun to see Salt Spring Island’s 10th Annual Apple Festival in the “Organic Gardening Capital of Canada.” Mmm! Either natural or the result of artificial selection, strange fruit and vegetables are just...
May 11th
Important advice, English as She is Spoke: 1. Take the occasion for the hairs. 2. Do a wink to some body. 3. There is not better sauce who the appetite. 4. Make paps for the cats. 5. Craunch the marmoset.* *especially (explain?)
May 10th
May 10th
Neat: perspective puzzles based on optical illusions in simple black and white graphics. Escherian space! Would really like to try Echochrome. Also rather like the idea of Portal and a small independent game, Crayon Physics. Such puzzle games that challenge perceptions of space and the behavior of objects in space :). Not that I am – nor have ever been – big on sitting around playing electronic...
May 9th
According to the hierarchy of delicious foods, fractal foods are pretty much tops. Followed by simply delectable triangles, circles, squares and so on. There is also special considerations for more complex polygons. Tastometry in cryptogastronomy, just wait! For now: how-to and more pictures.
May 2nd