I'm having one of those days where I keep getting brief, mental images from some show or movie. As quickly as it comes into my line of thought, it vanishes. It's especially peculiar because I remember it happening immediately after, but I can't consciously retrieve the experience. The flashes will happen with seeming regularity. In time, the source ( Read more... )

The man stood facing the building. His items were set on the slim edge that the building’s façade provided. His hands worked tediously at the pieces of paper in his hand.  One was the remnant of an expired Muni transfer. Today’s date was clearly printed on the paper, but it was too late in the evening to make use of it. The other paper had the ( Read more... )

This morning provided an unexpected moment of exhilaration. I followed my usual routine by catching the 6:56 Light Rail to the Caltrain station. This Light Rail usually arrives at Diridon Station at about the same time as the 7:03 Baby Bullet train. This gives me just enough time to jog from the Light Rail to the train platform. Today, the Light ( Read more... )

If I were an astronomer living in the days when the earth was thought to be the center of the universe, I’d have postulated that the moon and the sun’s distance are directly related to their mass and size. I would likely follow the assumption that the moon and the sun have the same density. This hypothesis would derive from the phenomenon that the ( Read more... )

Today, I read a science article that proposed that Americans are less likely to take another person’s perspective into account than people in Asia. A supposed source is that we have an isolationist culture. The experiment that led to this conclusion found that, given an arbitrary instruction, an American would more likely neglect to choose based on ( Read more... )

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More often than not, I find myself facing the opposite direction as the train is going. I think it is nicer because I can see more, in the same better perspective as one has in hindsight.

My swim yesterday was difficult. My muscles were stiff, so my form wasn’t what I prefer it to be. Fortunately, my breathing is getting stronger, and my balance ( Read more... )