brainstorms [next bit]

"selling out is usually more a matter of buying in." -- bill watterson “the main function of the human brain, the primary insti...

well now. while digging into the content stored in my iphone, i found out the drafts app which I'm slowly abandoning by removing my cont...

never mind the abstract  reader's digest  quote poster that is going around. this is my transcription of what Ira Glass actually said...

a period of time a few minutes long fifty eight years wide.   -- Tomas Transtromer ["the sad gondola"]

"The clock is ticking. Life is fleeting. If you don’t feel alive now, when will you?" -- guy tal "forget the big picture. ...

"be yourself and style will follow" -- guy tal ‪ "we are who we are - eventually."  -- constantine "no-on has ...

Deniers are not Skeptics December 5, 2014 Public discussion of scientific topics such as global warming is confused by misuse of the t...

reading at the back deck with the kid - Keith's red, spring breeze, Magritte clouds, peace. [oz/14]

"be nice. it's the smart play." -- capt. gregson ["elementary"] "sometimes the only real difference between c...

autumn days pull   much reflection -   a flight of swallows.   [Oct 21, 2013 - shortly after this haiku was written, i received a call to ...

as I watch flag and the leaf in the July wind dances a little jig [1/07/13 - oz]

t oday, rogers decided to decline my request to unlock an iphone I have in my account. Their reason: their "policy" states that I...

practice can make the wrong thing you practiced perfectly wrong. [oz/2013]

Here are some of the most interesting and important books from this year. they may or may not be the "best" of the year, but by my...

paul thagard have been working on a set of principles and computational models of explanatory coherence since late eighties. recently he app...

things change. i just terminated three small (free/ad-free) ios projects. they will now be re-implemented on android for my nexus 7 and ph...

" jargon marks the place where thinking has been. it becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term, a way of storing a complicated se...

what is in plain sight is often harder to see for the mind is busy with a forest of possibilities but not a tree. [oz/12]

abelson's laws as found in "statistics as principled argument" by robert p. abelson 1. chance is lumpy 2. overconfidence ...

in the cellulose acetate and silver halide days of the past, i started out with manual "nikonography" . I guess it could have b...