This one is just for fun. There’s no deeper meaning, just a failed experiment that resulted in some cool looking pictures.

  You have just eaten the most delicious soup of your life. You beg the cook for a recipe, but soup makers are notoriously secretive and soup recipes are traditionally only passed on to the eldest heir. Surreptitiously and with extreme caution, you pour some soup into a hidden soup compartment in your pocket. When […]

Shannon’s birthday has passed, but I thought I would jump on the bandwagon late, as usual. Shannon himself recognized that information theory was so compelling that it encouraged over-use. He wrote an article saying as much way back in the 50’s. It will be all too easy for our somewhat artificial prosperity to collapse overnight […]

As a child, I was visited by an alien. I remember the sensation of not being able to move or speak and seeing this other-worldly face. Some time later, when I saw a documentary about people who had been visited by aliens, I felt a chill of recognition. Their experiences matched my own. People all […]