Two things for which you are proud of yourselfThis one's really hard. I have never done anything earth shattering; no great scientific discoveries, no timeless works of art, no Olympic gold medals. I'm just zis guy. I guess I have to try ( Read more... )

Three pet peeves1. People on crowded street cars who sit in the aisle seat leaving the window seat empty or, worse, put their bag on the window seat and force people to ask them to let them by. Which in Toronto, of course, people won't do ( Read more... )

Four silly quirks1. My writing instrument of choice is a fountain pen. Usually I use a 1950s Pelikan with an oblique nib. It's filled with this wonderful ink that is just slightly nicer than dried blood ( Read more... )

Five books/movies/tv series/etc that you'd recommend

1. Bergman's The Seventh Seal. I can watch this over and over and get new stuff out of each time. It's also one of those essential things to have watched because it has given rise to so many parodies; notably the title sequence of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

2. Anthony Powell's A Dance ( Read more... )

Seven (semi)interesting things you've pondered or thought about recently1. Quantum gravity and the nature of spacetime. I'm much taken with Smolin's contention that we have to rethink reality in terms of relationships or maybe even just the exchange of information. It certainly gets around the geometric problems of a lattice like spacetime ( Read more... )

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Eight qualities you think are awesome in other people1. Kindness. I think people who go out of their way to make things less awful for others; human or otherwise, are awesome ( Read more... )

Day Two: Nine things about yourself.1. I was quite small for my age for much of my childhood and the idea that i was small didn't go away even when I was 1m84 tall and weighed 95kg. It was only when the coach of a rugby team I was playing for sent me in off the bench because he wanted "more physical presence" that I internalised the idea that I ( Read more... )

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This comes via mamculuna and intertext and I'm doing it because I like it better than the other ten day meme that's going the rounds

Day One: Ten things you want to do some day.Day Two: Nine things about yourself ( Read more... )