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03.06.2009 - Removed (commented out) the Pirate's Guide and a section of make-music-free rant which advocated breaking the copyright law. I still think (more than before, even) that the copyright law is in need of a serious reform and that non-commercial copyright infringment is perfectly ethical, but I do not feel like giving them grounds to sue me for talking about it.

30.05.2009 - Replaced JavaScript with SSI. Thanks, 1and1.

17.09.2008 - Vital info about doppelgangers (PDF).

23.06.2008 - Updated pictures, added Math section.

Random Incoherency

31.05.2009 - The thing about the law of excluded middle, you either believe in it or you do not. -Akihiro Kanamori

07.03.2009 - At the very best, one can be a character.

14.01.2009 - Magic is similar to money. It cannot work at all unless people believe in it. When everyone has faith in magic, it is the most powerful thing in the world.

20.12.2008 - Would you rather be a force of nature or the nature of force?

07.07.2008 - twiddlingbits: I'm pretty sure the current Linux GUIs owe a lot to to Motif. msuarezalvarez: Indeed. The violent urge to get rid of Motif has been a driving force in most of the modern GUI development. -Slashdot

23.06.2008 - Oxymoron: Romantic Comedy

19.03.2008 - Carry forward diet civilization / Bring along food trend
-chopstick inscription

13.03.2007 - He speaks of himself in the third person: how else can he understand himself? He pats himself on the back: how else can he love himself?

Do you think that he is a great person? You are his enemy. Do you think that what he did is of value? You are his enemy.

Do you think that he aspires to be a David facing a Goliath? He is less than that. He is nothing, the emptiness, facing the being. He is victorious without having an interest in winning.

21.02.2007 - Recently, somebody told me on Slashdot: "And I'm really not going to take moral lessons from a homophobe." (He was likely alluding to a rant of mine which he did not care to read.) I was about to retort by saying that (1) I am not a homophobe, which is evident from the fact that I drool on myself when women are making love to each other, (2) me being a homophobe does not hamper my ability to give a valuable moral lesson on a matter of copyright, and (3) I was not giving a moral lesson. But then I realized that the man's statement was perfectly sound. You see, he was saying precisely that I am a homophobe and that I am not worthy to give moral lessons. These were not connected in his mind to anything that I was saying or to each other, but, for better or worse, everything sounds logical when said in English (or any Human language), even though the intensional meaning is purely emotive. Also, that guy is a dickhead.

26.01.2006 - When a human makes a mistake, it immediately pours massive processing power into either formulating arguments about why it's not a mistake or finding someone else to blame for it. Machines tend not to do this. -ENOENT

23.11.2005 - I have not yet finished reading the English translation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and I never learned any German. Still, I am pleased to announce that I have made my very own complete, unabridged translation.

Philosophical Investigations

By Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, Tractatus sucks, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools, fools...

06.11.2005 - Tokay truly is the royal wine: it is strong enough to stir up love in a boy, and sweet enough to cure it in a girl.

02.11.2005 - There are 3 cats living in this house. I have heard that they have proper names, but I gave them my own names, corresponding to their distinguishing features:
Cat,
Red Cat, and
The Cat I haven't Met.

12.10.2005 - Degrees of sarcasm:
(1) People find you funny.
(2) People find you offensive.
(3) People find you genuine.
(4) You find yourself genuine.

10.05.2005 - Sara Rettus, a philosophy student, made a bet that she can spend one class period without arguing with one of her peers, a staunch utilitarian. She lost the bet by saying "If I kick you in the face, will it maximize the utility?"

05.05.2005 - Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics where they take geometrical problems which we cannot solve and turn them into algebraic problems which we cannot understand. -Maurice Stanley

20.04.2005 - You would not like a carpenter who uses a hammer to drive his arguments into your skull; a mathematician who uses logic in a conversation is not very different.

12.04.2005 - The more you run, the less you walk. -Annie Bao

22.03.2005 - An authentic answer to a question "Are you modest?" is always a lie.

08.03.2005 - When you cross the edge of the existing universe, the latter becomes slightly bigger. In the same manner, knowledge is born. Humanity (together with its implements) is the universe, and the knowledge is created rather than discovered. An individual starts out as a student, and for a long time she does nothing but discover the knowledge which is possessed by others. But when there is nothing more to learn, she becomes an artisan. This is the limit of knowledge. She is. An artist is the terminator. The limit is always here, always well-defined, and yet one can always go over the edge by creating something new and thus becoming the edge.

19.02.2005 - A person of good taste knows that few things are as aesthetically appealing as a nice piece of pie. Well, good journalism is like slicing a pie, and the result is always mouth-watering. Rather than to serve a paper-thin, two-dimensional image of current events, a superior journalist cuts through the thickness of history. She notes tendencies and makes connexions between past and future. She coats events with historical contest. My first encounter with this kind of journalism was Feminine Mystique, and since I read it, I am convinced that this is the right way to write.

12.01.2005 - Humans are inherently flawed and prone to make mistakes. It is only a matter of time before they make the biggest mistake possible -- they will find this flaw and correct it.

22.07.2004 - This is old, but I just realised that now I actually have a place to publish it.

class God * i = jesus->getParent();

14.07.2004 - When a good student learns, her faith is challenged. An excellent student learns to challenge her faith.

08.03.2004 - I've been told a stupid joke today (nothing new here), but, as a result, it dawned on me that I am well justified in calling my guitar my girlfriend. Bella always wears a G-string; white, most of the time, but when I'm in a fancy mood, it could be black or pink.

08.02.2004 - My site is up.