December 2007
19 posts
New year resolutions: Part II
I’ll definitely improve the kind of food I consume. It’s worth paying for really good food. My breakfast today: tuna sandwiches. Yuck!
“Mozart is free to create things others cannot imagine, because he is bound by...”
– Margaret Boden
“Happiness only real when shared.”
– Read in this Coding Horror article.
“If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby.”
– a great comment on an absurd Huffington Post blog post proposing that atheism is actually a “stealth religion” (xstevemurphy)
Fearless mice created in Japan →
Awwww… genetic engineering.
“If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of...”
– Alan J. Perlis, in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs’ foreword.
“The secret to happiness is low expectations.”
– Barry Schwartz.
New year resolutions: Part I.
One of them is to read a minimum of 25 books in a year. I’m starting right away. The first book was The Hobbit. 24 to go.
This is exactly how I feel: “Why don’t you just *write a program*?” he asks. He agrees that especially scientists should learn how to program, because it may help them learn to communicate their ideas better. I look forward to him saying more about this in his blog. A scientist can communicate an idea to others with a program, but they can also think better with a program....
“The real reason we are seeking a complete theory, is that we want to understand...”
– Stephen Hawking, in his speech “Gödel and the end of Physics”.
It’s weird. Today I stumbled across the twitter from a guy I know from a PDA forum and realized he’s living my dream. He’s going to New York and I’m very happy for him.
Hahaha, I’m getting all emotional.
Probando el Tumblr Dashboard Widget. á é í ó ú ñ.
I need some quality time in a deserted island.
“The German scholar did mistakenly name the new lands America after...”
– National Geographic on German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.