In a word?
Experiments.
Allow me to illustrate:
Situation 1. Computer science paper:
“Mmn. These graph mapping simulations are really taking a while to complete, maybe I should get a new laptop.”
Situation 2. Cognitive science paper:
“Yes, hello, I’d like to order a dozen rhesus monkeys with proper wiring and electrode setup. Do you deliver?”
If rum and eggnog do not work fast enough to reach that coveted state of christmas-enjoying numbness, try chewing on fresh pine needles.
If all else fails, hit your head repeatedly on a corner of the fireplace on that spot right between the eyes until vision starts to blur.
Don’t thank me.
Nordine, commenting by IM on Mr. Sarkozy’s new glossy romance:
See, there is hope for you: this just goes to show that one can be short, arrogant and, yet, go out with a top-model.
Chopin makes for an uncannily perfect, if not overly original, soundtrack to a quiet evening of sub-freezing outdoor temperatures.
How can xkcd always be so spot-on?
It’s irritating.
So I was wondering:
Is a sudden resurgent bout of infatuation for the lyrics of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters at an adult age, an early warning sign of dementia?
Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go play that Ummagumma album backwards again…
When your name sounds anything like “Vladimir Vapnik” or “Alexey Chervonenkis“, you just should not be allowed a career in mathematics by the cliché police.
No offense meant to our Russian mathematician friends.
Friday night, following a lengthy explanation of the English word “vicarious”…
Aya-chan: Uhn. I see. Then I think maybe I am bi-carious…
Or maybe just “confused“?
Her: You know: vodka grapefruit and mini-twix does not make for a proper breakfast…
Him: Oh yea? Well, waking me up for sex at 5am to kick me out of bed by 6 does no make for a proper wake-up either.
It appears that I am geared to turn sixteen at the end of this week (I started counting the years backwards a while back).
In celebration, a couple merry friends and I, will be drinking, spinning records and being a general nuisance to the gentle people of Shibuya, on
So feel free to pop by and have a drink or ten with us !