May 2009
5 posts
why i think jenny mccarthy is a poor scientist.
A) because she ISN’T one.
B) since she seems to think she is, and since most of the media giving her airtime seems to think so as well:
Today I got a call from someone telling me to turn on my tv. Apparently someone brilliant was on, talking about the link between vaccines and autism- and how somehow a special diet can help.
So I ask, “Is she blonde?” Them:...
the mystical doctrine of universal computation
From this perspective, computation seems almost a theological process. It takes as its fodder the primeval choice between yes or no, the fundamental state of 1 or 0. After stripping away all externalities, all material embellishments, what remains is the purest state of existence: here/not here. Am/not am. In the Old Testament, when Moses asks the Creator, “Who are you?” the being...
mean world syndrome vs. stendhal syndrome
watch lots of cable news and go crazy in a not fun way.
go outside or to an art museum and go crazy in a very fun way.
stendhal syndrome: a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly ‘beautiful’ or a large amount of art is in a single place. the term can...