archives for Friday 26 September 2008
the faceting machine
Friday 26 September 2008 | someone left a cookie
Modern science has subtilized its projections to an almost unrecognizable degree, but our ordinary life still swarms with them. You can find them spread out in the newspapers, in books, rumours, and ordinary social gossip. All gaps in our actual knowledge are still filled out with projections. We are still so sure we know what [...]
note to self
Friday 26 September 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
Do not compulsively check the Brujo’s lifespan on deathclock.com. (Although Mandarin’s supposed to live to be 97; and I gain or lose 20 years, depending on whether I bill myself as Pessimistic or merely Normal.)
