Damek.

Perhaps as an antidote to the previous post, or maybe in harmony with it, I offer up this. Holy cow I love Douglas Adams. I need to re-read and read more of him, too. Here are two quotes you can find on wikiquote’s Douglas Adams page:
The world is a thing of utter [...]

Still reading Sixty Days of Night by KSR. (It’s slow going only because I have so little time to read between work, school, life. I could finish it in a day if I had one; but books are just for the commute & bedtime for now, and I should probably be reading my textbooks [...]

Finally reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest book, Sixty Days and Counting, the end of his climate change/science in politics trilogy. I’m not quite as worshipful of him as I used to be, and this trilogy isn’t some of his best writing, but I’m still enjoying it. He can surprise me, crystallizing in words [...]

From xkcd.

A short post this time.
Heraclitus wrote of the changing waters of the river, and it’s important to realize what this says about reality. There are very basic limits to what we can understand and communicate.
As the Foreward to my edition says, “…all things change, all thigns flow. The world is revealed only in [...]