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Old Dogs in the mountains 21 Jun 2013 | 03:11 pm
Up at the cottage, and the weather has been very mixed. Dandy Dog doesn't seem inclined to go for steep walks right now, but I am not sure if he is ill or just lazy. Back then, he even accompanied m...
If you're so clever, why aren't you rich? 17 Apr 2013 | 10:35 pm
This perennial question does assume that the smart thing to do with intelligence is earn money, and to the extent that having money does free up your time, eventually, it could prove a good idea. How...
Hard to fool a cat... 17 Apr 2013 | 10:09 pm
I love this movie. I love Robert Altman, Elliott Gould, Raymond Chandler and the cynicism and world-weariness of film noir (and its deconstruction). And I love the cat. Especially the gag about tryi...
Why is asking so hard? 4 Mar 2013 | 09:04 pm
I never felt comfortable with other people or society's rules. I thought I was surrounded by idiots. I couldn't even work out why I was on this planet. I didn't want a job, or property, or respect, o...
The Science of Magic 6 Nov 2012 | 04:32 am
I saw an advert from Kenton Knepper, about some material he was offering on memory - and it was apparently stuff he prepared to show Psychology students at the University of Arizona. Digging a little...
Testing, testing 22 Apr 2012 | 12:10 am
Just experimenting with using Personal Brain to navigate my website - testing Home Page code in Blogger. If it works here, then I may put it in place on the old website... Personal Brain helps organis...
Living on Borrowed Time 23 Feb 2012 | 01:09 pm
As ever, John Lennon said it better than me (see post title and YouTube clip) - although I have managed to claw a few more years out of this lovely little planet, and the illusion of an individual lif...
So far, so good. 14 Feb 2012 | 06:27 am
Reasons to be cheerful: My birthday may still be associated with chocolate and cherubs, satin hearts and red balloons, sloppy romance and spending money - but at least it's a secular day now - all th...
MultiMedia and the Avant-Gardes 11 Jan 2012 | 05:32 am
I had to help write an essay about multimedia performances a few years ago, and found a wonderful book by Richard Kostelanetz which gave me a clue to how to shape the piece. I have just bought it thr...
Language as a virus 16 Dec 2011 | 04:28 am
Reading The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language - an overview on the current theories of language evolution - and felt very amused to find the model of language as a virus now having so...
