I dreamt I drove a car out of a driveway, but I was driving it while leaning over from the back seat. I could really only steer, although I attempted to operate the pedals with my hands. On the way out I hit two cars. The person whose cars I'd …
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I love these self-help, motivational, succeed-in-business type books. Who Moved My Cheese? reminds me of the line in the Vicar of Dibley, 'I can't believe I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter isn't butter!'. Who moved Who-Moved-My-Cheese??
The message of the book is, 'just accept change and get on with it'. Well, that's often the best …
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It's astonishing in The Brothers Karamazov (published in 1880) how up-to-date Dotoevsky is with scientific ideas. To whit:
- Ivan's demon visitor talks of the 10 minutes it takes for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
- In the same conversation, he talks of the low temperature of space …
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I dreamt that I saw a very ill child, a toddler, lying in bed with a lurid green face. I said that he had to be taken to hospital. His mother said they were going to take him, as soon as the father came back. I said NO, the child …
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Previously I told you about the UFO activity that occured in my garden. To update you, the mother ship is still there, but the curious rectangular craft have disappeared, replaced by a mysterious pattern of stick-like objects. You can just about make out the sticks in the photo below:
What …
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Oh, and a handy hint is to go after lunch - the queue was only 6 minutes long when we went!
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If it's in a gallery it's not graffiti!
I can't tell you what your attitude to graffiti should be but mine is simple: If it improves the thing its on then I approve. If it doesn't then I don't.
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PS. The joke wouldn't have been as funny if the …
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This has been on my 'list of films to see' for ages, and by heaven it was worth seeing!
This film is prescient about so much:
- The Human-Machine burning at the stake, revealing a metalic body is pure Terminator.
- Fredersen demonstrates Skype.
- The first use of the Human-Machine is as …
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Queuing to get in. It takes about an hour.
Sign at the entrance.
My nephews are really into Thomas The Tank Engine, so this caught my eye.
I hope you can make out the writing, dear reader.
You make your own mind up.
A touch self-agrandizing.
An animated salami sausage …
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New Scientist has a good article on memristors and their implications for AI.
It seems that memristor circuits make it possible to build cheaper, smaller
computers that use less energy. It'll let us build a computer that simulates a
human brain, cortical computing. I, for one, welcome our new memristor …
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