For some reason, the coverage of the US phantom recession on BBC World today made me associate the state of the US economy with a depressed cat: both are subjective states of existence, inscrutable to all but a few experts, and involve mysterious and often tenuous cures which the subjects themselves are powerless to enact.
On a tangential train of thought, the news coverage of the state of the US economy is coincidentally comparable to Schrödinger's depressed cat: "While we're thinking outside the box here, the US economy could be doing well. But it could ALSO be doing poorly. Or, it could be doing well. Then again, it COULD be trending downwards. On the other hand, it..." (Repeat ad nauseam)
Pic from Stock Exchange: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/964045
Monday, March 24, 2008
The US economy: an apt metaphor
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
An imagination-stretcher, gone but not forgotten
Arthur C. Clarke died today.
Tired of hiding eggs? Microwave some Peeps!
Don't try this at home, because A. it will ruin your microwave and B. someone else already did and shared the film footage.
http://microwavecam.com/microwavecam/index.htm
The Peeps are the best. Watching them helplessly and inexorably balloon within their shrink-wrap while smiling vacantly is disturbing and hilarious.
http://microwavecam.com/microwavecam/Videos/Peeps/peeps%20084b.htm
Happy Easter!!!!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A Chuck Berry song for all candidates
Heard "Johnny B. Goode" playing in the background as McCain celebrated his GOP nomination win last night. As much as I love Chuck Berry, it's a random song to have as your "theme", other than the "Johnny" association, when you consider the lyrics: never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play a guitar just like a-ringing a bell.
Well, just for fun, here are some other suggested themesongs-candidate pairings:
Rudy Guiliani -- "Run, Run Rudolph"
Mitt Romney -- "I Want to Be Your Driver"
Ron Paul -- "No Particular Place to Go"
Mike Huckabee -- "My Ding-A-Ling"
Hillary Clinton -- "No Money Down"
Barack Obama -- "You Can't Catch Me"