this just goes to show you that nothing is foolproof. for example .. it's 4:24 on finnish time. in any circumstance i should not be writing any kind of blog post .. still, i seems that i remembered my password and could steady my fingers well enough to start typing in this text box that will become a blog post ( Read more... )

i just stumbled onto james bridle's booktwo blog and browsed his recent post called "stop lying about what you do."

what he says about his book reading is quite frank, unapologetic:

I don’t read like I used to-although that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I rarely finish books. I’ve always had a habit of abandoning novels 50-100 pages before the ( Read more... )

apparently the notion of the :singularity: is become mainstream enough so that time magazine ran a story about it, in february.

according to wikipedia's entry,

Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and allege ( Read more... )

last night my friend jo invited a bunch of us to her place for dinner, and it was there that i reneged my vegetarian vows for an evening. [0] among the dishes there was pork with banana flowers, which was tangy and quite good on rice.

what surprised me was that i must have eaten banana flowers before, or some variant of it.

as a boy i'd be given ( Read more... )

i think it's conventional wisdom amongst leftists, liberals, and hipsters that television is bad.

i remember distinctly in the first grade that my teacher told me: "if you watch too much tv, then you will become fat." at the time i had a horrid aversion to fat and being a fat person,

(why, i neither know nor remember; perhaps it was because ( Read more... )