My absolute favorite bit is the Appendices. Particularly the meditations on recreating a human religion ( Read more... )

Okay, so I missed the numerologically intriguing but otherwise pretty much insignificant moment of 12:34:56 7/8/09.  I was walking back from lunch.  It's alright, though, cuz I'm much more impressed by 12:34:56 7/8/90.  And, barring crazy-ass advances in medical science, or, y'know, vampire, I'm neither planning on being around then, nor really ( Read more... )

( Teh crack )