I'm reading Unweaving the Rainbow (in fact I considered reading The God Delusion, but it would probably not do terribly much to me, in that 80% of the time he is preaching to the converted and the other 20% I wonder if he's being rather extremist ( Read more... )

So dead, so drained. By 9:30 I can't function anymore and have to retreat to bed, but then I just lie there, hours wasted, unable to sleep. The light wakes me at five; I don't want to sleep in, I can't stand being with or near people all the time. Someone said you need at least two hours utterly alone every day to stop your brain strangling ( Read more... )

I keep trying to do an entry about leaving and the formal and afterwards, but somehow it is all obscured, so I give up. I can probably manage "affogato is nice" but little more.
[Edit: There will be photos later, I presume, so I guess I'm not demanding you be satisfied with that alone :P}

I am reading Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev which I bought ( Read more... )

"Does the argument from design explain more things than belief the universe formed by chance? Well, it does explain 'why' such coincidences occurred - but does chance really need an explanation? It is certainly only a “matter of taste”, since if a coin that lands heads up ten times or maybe even fifty times does not make anyone suggest a higher ( Read more... )

I think I am what they call resigned to fate.

I somehow forgot about Stephen Malkmus. What? How does that happen? Like the other day I remembered about Healthy Harold. How can I have forgotten about an entire chunk of primary school? It's just odd. But it's also a bit worrying. What if all these other significant things have just dropped off the edge of my mind ( Read more... )

"All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecidable propositions ( Read more... )