Thursday, June 8th, 2006
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1:47 am
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In tonight's Glen Phillips' concert, a surprise: a great cover of a great Gillian Welch's song that I hadn't heard before:
Darling, remember, when you come to me,
That I'm a pretender
I'm not what I'm supposed to be
But who could know if I'm a traitor?
Time's the revelator, the revelator
(http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=122168)
A good show overall, but this was the best song.
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Saturday, March 27th, 2004
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4:29 pm - "I smile like Chicago"
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
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1:42 am - Airport stories
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Sunday, March 21st, 2004
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8:23 am - Актуально!
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Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that won't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast
Will taste better when I have one for dessert
Corrupted quote. :)
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Saturday, March 20th, 2004
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8:57 am - Bookmarks for some "loosely disconnected" thoughts
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Thursday, March 18th, 2004
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12:33 pm - Elections in Spain
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12:07 pm - 19th Century's Dr. Atkins?
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Sunday, March 14th, 2004
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2:27 am - Bottled fiction
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Thursday, March 11th, 2004
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9:23 am - Spain
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12:46 am - Country blues at their best.
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Thursday, March 4th, 2004
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12:46 am - Ух...
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Из http://www.livejournal.com/community/lidia_ginsburg/2079.html:
В старости не следует (по возможности) бояться смерти, потому что из теоретической области смерть перешла в практическую. В старости нельзя жаловаться, потому что кто-нибудь может в самом деле пожалеть... Нельзя опускать руки, потому что в старости это жест чересчур естественный.
Мы завидуем молодости — нет, не ее весельям. Молодость мы испытали в свое время и знаем, как она нерадостна и пустынна. Мы завидуем праву ее на страх, на чужую жалость, на глупость, на слабость и слезы в ночи... Ей можно, потому что где-то, на большой глубине, она не уверена, что все окончательно и всерьез.
Лидия Яковлевна Гинсбург, 1962
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
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11:02 pm - Так...
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Michael Nyman и Гидон Крамер будут в Бостоне 27-ого апреля.
A Lhasa de Sela будет в Монреале 30-oго апреля и 1-oго мая.
Между Монреалем и Бостоном, говорят, около 8 часов, ага.. :)
current music: Drowning By Number 2
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12:42 am - Eccentric Visions
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Thursday, February 26th, 2004
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12:19 am - "The Dreamers"
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
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8:06 pm - Very interesting
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Saturday, February 14th, 2004
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5:27 am - Just like they do in real diaries...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2004
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9:02 pm - Heh!
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Try this: While sitting at your desk, raise your right foot slightly off the floor and begin moving it in clockwise circles. Now, with your right index finger, draw the number 6 on your desk. Your foot has suddenly changed directions!
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
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3:53 am - A variation on a recent LJ fad
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Friday, January 23rd, 2004
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8:57 pm - Bark Psychosis
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Monday, January 5th, 2004
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1:19 am - David Foster Wallace, "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity"
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This is a great book.
No, it's not fiction. No, it's not an easy read. Yes, it does read like a collection of lectures rather than a coherrent opus on Cantor's math. Yes, I'm sure some things can be explained better. And yes, someone not familiar with the author might find his writing mannered and his vocabulary annoying, particularly for a pop-science work.
But one would be hard-pressed to find another math book or book about math that starts with a fake Greek epigraph. And then spends the first 100 pages on Greek philosophy before delving into math. The Pythgorians and their obsession with numbers, the immobile universe of Parmenides, Plato's forms, Zeno's paradoxes, Aristotelian distinction between infinite and infinitely divisible...
I've never before seen the formal language of math compared with "legaleeze" as proofs of theorems (for instance) are disclaming coverage for cases and conditions. I've never heard of transcomputational problems (fascinating stuff , btw). I've not thought of mathematicians --or whole branches of inquery even -- whose fundamental discoveries were unnoticed, ignored, or forgotten for centuries. And the book hasn't gone into the actual explanation of Cantor's concepts and proofs yet. :)
This book isn't unique because it explains the basics of Cantor's Set Theory uniquely well or because it stays uniquely close to Cantor's ideas. It's unique because here's a singular thinker -- with a great sense of irony, an eye for paradox and a fondness for experimenting with the language to boot -- writing about a deep, fascinating subject. Years ago, he chose a different way to give an introduction to Wittgensteinian philosophy in a book of fiction that is Broom of the System . It was done so smoothely, that if one didn't care, one wouldn't even have to think about it. This book is different. But it's also great, in its own way.
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