Friday, 3 June 2011

You Are Books

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
 — Cicero

Thursday, 2 June 2011

What'ch Your Language

Co-operation And Retaliation

Tit for tat is a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. An agent using this strategy will initially cooperate, then respond in kind to an opponent's previous action. Unless provoked, the agent will always cooperate. If provoked, the agent will retaliate. Some game theorists informally believe the strategy to be optimal, although no proof is presented.

A Fool

What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company.
 — Casanova

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Bring Me The Head Of Carlos Gouveia

Carlos A. M. Gouveia

highschool.com (was university.org)

In the beginning was the Plan, and then the Program; And the Plan was without form, and the Program was void;

And Darkness was upon the faces of the professors;

And they spake unto the Associate Dean, saying "It is a Crock of Shit, and it stinks";

And the Associate Dean went unto the Dean, and he spake unto him saying, "It is a Crock of Fæces, and none may abide the Odour thereof;

And the Dean went unto the Vice President, and he spake unto him saying, "It is a Container of Excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide before it;

And the Vice President went unto the President, and he spake unto him saying, "It is a Vessel of Fertiliser, and none may abide its strength;

And the President went unto the Vice Chancellor, and he spake unto him saying, "It containeth that which aids Plant Growth, and it is very strong;

And the Vice Chancellor went unto the Chancellor, and he spake unto him saying, "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful;

And the Chancellor went unto the Board of Regents, and he spake unto them saying, "This potent and vigorous Plan will promote the Growth of the University;

And the Board looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good, and ordered its Implementation forthwith.

The Drones

Monday, 30 May 2011

The Other Man's Grass

The famed sociologist Max Weber was once criticised by a fellow academic for writing outside his field. 
"I'm not a donkey," Weber retorted, "and I don't have a field."

A Fortified Wine To Avoid

the port of hamster dam

Insincerity Anagram


Sunday, 29 May 2011

The Political Right

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
 — Albert Einstein

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Postmodern Mathematics

1 + 1 = 3, for sufficiently large values of 1.

Splimpers

Splitters distinguish splitters from lumpers.  Lumpers don't.

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Hell

Pleasure Is Where You Find It

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
 — Albert Einstein

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

A Well Respected Man

He dresses how he votes.
 — David Bridie '25 stations'