Alright, I'll start with a quote from Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.

Godel's string G, and a Bach fugue: they both have the property that they can be understood on different levels. We are all familiar with this kind of thing: and yet in some cases it confuses us, while in others we handle it without any difficulty at all. For example ( Read more... )

So I'm dehydrating watermelon using my "NESCO American Harvest Food Dehydrator & Jerky Maker." Sort of an experiment I guess. Never tried watermelon before.

Oh, and I wanted to post this excerpt from a book I've been reading called Private Sea, written by William Braden (no longer in print, unfortunately). He details some of the ideas of the ( Read more... )