July 20, 2006
Woody Allen sighting
via Esther Dyson's flickr photos
[I'm finding lots of cool photos by searching on randomly chosen highbrow tags such as 'aptitude.' That's how I found this interesting photo and flickr user ]
SENSE AMPLIFIER MODULE
It would be nice to have one of these built-in wherever more sense is needed, or where (perhaps more precisely) what sense is already available in one's local environment might be usefully amplified.
I was reminded of an ancient su-roger-or-andy posting, which some readers might recall:
Concerning the contrapositive of "if you don't understand this paragraph, that's OK..." Applying the known Laws of Grammar and the technique Semantic Inversion, I obtain "if that's not OK, then you do understand this paragraph." Strangely, the technique sheds no light on my original meaning, which although radiant and clear as a sunspot to me when I first wrote it, nevertheless proves elusive now in a moment of quiet reflection. It can be difficult to gather one's thought. For example I find that the repeated use of the expressions "Wait, let me think..." and "OK...wait..." interspersed with nervous giggling and eyeball batting do little more than draw out the time before I have to eventually say, OK, I have no idea what I am talking about. Sometimes waiting and thinking don't seem to accomplish very much. The man of action does very little waiting and when he thinks, it is strictly on the fly. At least that's what I always thought. It makes sense to me. But wait, let me think....
From plambeck Fri Sep 13 23:47:24 1991
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