The pen is mightier than the sword. Just as I started writing an essay about (a.o.) sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s view on consumerism he kicks the bucket and goes to the liquid eternity. The judges are still out whether that makes me seduced or repressed, but I think it is obvious that I have magical powers. […]
Category: Status Updates
Breaking: Yahoo is changing name. “To follow with the time, we are changing names to something more fitting,” says Yahoo’s new CEO Rip van Winkle who carries on the stick from recently sacked Marissa Mayer. Yahoo will be known as “Whyyyyyy Corps” and plans to spend the future reviving valuable brands like Geocities. Nobody cared […]
Ah new years. Time for the yearly shower and cleaning my tea cup. Not necessarily at the same time. So very, very posh and clean. […]
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Ah, the perils of being famous – can’t even browse the hipster Britney albums at Mediamarkt without running into the paparazzi 😉 (picture 66, hat-tip Henk) http://www.vkmag.com/magazine/gewoon_een_verzameling_hilarische_fotos_760 […]
The Remarkable Way We Eat Pizza – Numberphile
Lovely illustration of Theorema Egregium, though a very verbose way of saying that the Gauss curvature is preserved by local isometries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-TBlh44gY […]
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I’ve finally got rid of most of the snow. Sure, some might argue that the temperature did most of the work, but I think it’s only fair I get my share of the credit for patiently waiting it out. […]