an observation of commuting on the ttc and leaving the subway via the escalator at king station during rushhour:
the hordes of shuffling people funneling into the escalator reminds me of a zipper. a very strange zipper that takes a jumbled mess and forces it into a two columned interlocking pattern (as opposed to the usual […]

i’ve come across one of the best sentences ever while reading gödel escher bach: and eternal golden braid (aka geb):
“yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation” yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
this operation of preceding a phrase with it’s quotation was invented by willard van orman quine and is hence called “to quine a […]

i have to say that two firefox plugins that i couldn’t imagine working without are my del.icio.us buttons and the session manager. for the uninitiated, del.icio.us is a web2.0 bookmarking tool. your bookmarks are available from anywhere on the internet; you can share them with anyone, and see what other people are saving. the buttons […]

as you may already know, canadian copyright reform is an issue that is very important to me. so much so that i wrote a letter that i sent to multiple members of parliament to voice my concerns. this was back in early december before i had created this blog, but a digital copy of my […]

ana, you’re awesome. anyone who found the previous post on this topic remotely interesting needs to go and read the comment that she left. here is a quick excerpt that i would like to build on:
if you’ve got posts that are closer together you can gather more data faster, you can get and idea of […]

everyone knows that time goes faster as you get older. previously i believed that this was due to the fact that a given unit of time would comprise a smaller percentage of your total memories. but what of the fact that i barely remember *anything* (temporal experiences, that is. i’m full of knowledge of varying […]

so i recently installed a stats plugin for the blog, then realized that it only works when people view the individual posts. there are a couple of methods of making this happen. I’m trying one of them out, it works like this:
Continue reading ‘meta-post (turns out i didnt like it)
i don’t know if i like […]

i have come to realize that my post yesterday implied that anonymous *itself* was the solution for utopia. thats not entirely what i meant, but thats what you get when you have a blog who’s premise is to publish first drafts and pre-first drafts…
its more of their mindset and call-to-action: they are members of a […]

i’ve come to re-think my first post regarding the fact that huge social change for the better will not be possible before we create intelligences superior to ourselves. the source of my newfound hope: anonymous.
some media outlets report that this group is composed of “terrorists” and “biggots” and generally mean people. this may be true, […]