I'm trying to learn to follow the 20-20-20 rule my optometrist taught me. When I work at the computer, every twenty minutes I should take twenty seconds to focus on something twenty feet away. I …
Too late I learned mnemonics for singing intervals on the major scale. The first two notes of "Here Comes the Bride [The Wedding March]" form a perfect fourth, and the first two notes of "My …
Leonard gave me two terrific compliments recently. He said that my website is "content-rich," and he said I'm "intellectually honest." Thanks, Leonard! *hug*
The middle two panels of This Modern World amuse me. They remind me of the first drive to Bakersfield that Leonard and I ever made together, during which he explained the Liar's Paradox and different …
Also from IMDB: "NATO Chief Says Theaters Are Recovering." Ah, that wacky National Association of Theater Owners. This is exactly the sort of thing that would confuse ignorant anti-American extremists. Especially right under a story …
So I saw Forty Days and Forty Nights (sparse IMDB listing) on Thursday night. Blech! I'm glad I saw it for free. I wonder if I'd rationalize its flaws away if I'd paid money to …
My Russian prof tries to involve the class in all sorts of curriculum decisions. As Josh Brockman once wrote, "I'm tired of all this empowerment."
From Logic discussion, on the sentence "For all x, if x is a basketball player, then x is large": "Now suppose we pick Jerry Rice for x. [pause] Football player."
On Zack's "I need a bigger dishrack" of 3 March: Kitchenware? Food laundry? You could take some of your dishes &tc. out of commission -- bench them so you have to do the dishes more …
