Saturday, 12 February 2011

Little Golden Book Titles That Never Made It

You Are Different And That's Bad
The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables
Dad's New Wife Robert
Fun Four-Letter Words To Know And Share
Hammers, Screwdrivers And Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book
The Kids' Guide To Hitchhiking
Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her
Curious George And The High-Voltage Fence
All Cats Go To Hell
The Little Sissy Who Snitched
Some Kittens Can Fly
That's It! I'm Putting You Up for Adoption
Grandpa Gets A Casket
The Magic World Inside The Abandoned Refrigerator
Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia
The Pop-Up Book Of Human Anatomy
Strangers Have The Best Candy
Whining, Kicking And Crying To Get Your Way
You Were An Accident
Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games
The Man In The Moon Is Actually Satan
Your Nightmares Are Real
Where Would You Like To Be Buried?
Eggs, Toilet Paper, And Your School
Why Can't Mr. Fork And Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?
Places Where Mommy And Daddy Hide Neat Things
Daddy Drinks Because You Cry

Friday, 11 February 2011

Expletive Excreted

Choices Choices

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy.
 — Tom Waits

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Litterature

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;
I'll waste no time reading it.
 — Moses Hadas

A Bit Severe

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
 — Billy Wilder

Hind Sight

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
 — Mæ West

Forgive And Forget

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
 — Forrest Tucker

Us And Them

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

No Place Is A Good Place

eutopia = good place
outopia = no place

Say It Like It Is

unabbreviated
polysyllabic
obfuscating

Kind To Be Cruel

Always forgive your enemies; 
nothing annoys them so much.
 — Oscar Wilde

Monday, 7 February 2011

Opportunism

An unwatched pot immediately boils.

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Mathematics Made Simple

Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem
Any adequate axiomatisable theory is incomplete. In particular the sentence "This sentence is not provable" is true but not provable in the theory.

Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem
In any consistent axiomatisable theory (axiomatisable means the axioms can be computably generated) which can encode sequences of numbers (and thus the syntactic notions of "formula", "sentence", "proof") the consistency of the system is not provable in the system.

Incompleteness Theorem

I'm not a complete idiot.
Part of me is missing.

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Hofstadter's Law

It always takes longer than you expect,
even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
 — Douglas Hofstadter 'Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'

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