I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else…
5 hours agoMark Ashworth's Tumble Log
I am an eternal student of the world around me, I like to study how it got this way, why it got this way; One day, I'll also know what we can do about it.
Excerpts from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’
1 day ago[Preamble from the heart] Soren Kierkegaard. Fear & Trembling
It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole of temporality in order to win eternity.
4 days agoOn an early morning jogging visit to the nearby park, you notice a pair of unkempt men. What do you see with your eyes? What don’t you see with your eyes?
1 month agoMachine translation has a long way to go
So I just put the names of all twelve months into Google Translate and this is the translation I got. Notice the 5th month, May:
一月
二月
3月
4月
可能
6月
7月
8月
9月
10月
11
12月
It didn’t even bother with the ‘月’ for November.
1 month agoGiven four words: Monkey, Banana, Cow, Grass. How do you categorize them?
1 month agoThe Intelligent Crowd: Browser wars. Still no paradigm
2 months agoA man’s wife commits suicide and he then goes on to marry a young, attractive but incompatible woman who drives him into the ground both mentally and financially. Add to this the outcome of a failing World War I effort and you might get the beginnings of a man who’s losing his marbles. Which is great news for science…
2 months ago