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Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
It is not strictly science, but rather a very interesting set of mathematical theorems about logic and the philosophy that is definitely relevant ( Read more... )

Buying your goods from local businesses rather than national chains generates about three times as much money for your local economy. Studies from all over the country agree on that, even while consumers keep buying at chain stores, and fretting that the downtown blocks of cute mom-and-pop venues are turning into a ghost town. Today's bargain ( Read more... )

Yesterday was supposed to be my second interview, but it didn't happen because the guy who was to interview me was away from the office (I think due to illness). Now I have to wait for them to figure out their schedules and call me back. I want this job, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the fact that their office seems to work on Island ( Read more... )

For some reason, and I'm not entirely sure why, I always had this idea that there was a baseline. To everything. Some sort of norm from which there are deviations. Some people would have you believe that this actually exists, but it doesn't. It really really doesn't. There is no baseline. There is no norm ( Read more... )

I am learning the intricacies about how best to cultivate habits. You must first give them the best possible soil in which to grow. If the conditions are less than fertile, it will be all the more difficult for your habits to grow strong and flourish. You must nourish them with attention and respect; attend to them with diligence. Newly-formed ( Read more... )

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. ~Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

Personally, I find boring the diaries that don't vacillate between the two extremes of the mundane and the highly ( Read more... )