It Just Can't Be That Simple
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Dogged in Oz
Looks like Snoop got himself banned from yet another country. Don't the Australian authorities know he's a celebrity? Which, like politicians, makes him exempt to all the laws which apply to us regular folk.
Maybe Snoop can get Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton to help out? No, they are both too media savvy to risk political capital helping a convicted criminal.
Besides, I doubt either the Aussie's or the Brit's suffer from "white guilt". No, Jesse & Al will not be coming to Snoop's rescue. Someone else will have to help the brother while whitey conspires to keep him down. Maybe some of his Hollywood friends will host a benefit. Or start a boycott of Aussie goods - like Mel Gibson! ¶ 29.4.07 0 comments
Maybe Snoop can get Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton to help out? No, they are both too media savvy to risk political capital helping a convicted criminal.
Besides, I doubt either the Aussie's or the Brit's suffer from "white guilt". No, Jesse & Al will not be coming to Snoop's rescue. Someone else will have to help the brother while whitey conspires to keep him down. Maybe some of his Hollywood friends will host a benefit. Or start a boycott of Aussie goods - like Mel Gibson! ¶ 29.4.07 0 comments
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Negative is Positive
Today I ventured down to Seattle to visit my surgeon. I arrived a bit early & went over to the hospital. I stopped by 11 east & thanked the day shift nurse who cared for me back in December. It seemed to take her a bit to remember me.
Good news is the doc did another blood test & my PSA is still undetectable. So I'm still cured. Yeahhhhhhhhh ¶ 24.4.07 0 comments
Good news is the doc did another blood test & my PSA is still undetectable. So I'm still cured. Yeahhhhhhhhh ¶ 24.4.07 0 comments
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Quotes worth Repeating
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
- Richard Hamming
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is certain.
- A.N. Whitehead
Superior algorithms or computer codes will not cure bad models or a lack of engineering judgement.
- Dara Childs
Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition.
- Alan Turing
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
-August Von Schlegel
Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
- Douglas Hofstadler
Set theory can be viewed as a form of exact theology.
- Rudy Rucker
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
- George Rush
If you empower dummies, you just get bad decisions faster.
- Rich Tierlink ¶ 15.4.07 0 comments
- Arthur C. Clarke
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
- Richard Hamming
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is certain.
- A.N. Whitehead
Superior algorithms or computer codes will not cure bad models or a lack of engineering judgement.
- Dara Childs
Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition.
- Alan Turing
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
-August Von Schlegel
Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
- Douglas Hofstadler
Set theory can be viewed as a form of exact theology.
- Rudy Rucker
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
- George Rush
If you empower dummies, you just get bad decisions faster.
- Rich Tierlink ¶ 15.4.07 0 comments
