April 12, 2005

Further evidence for balance

I've been trying to find quotes that explain why one shouldn't spend one's entire life fixated on one tiny little topic. Vernor Vinge. "A Deepness in the Sky" p 287. "But you know about really creative people, the artists who end up in your history books? As often as not,...

February 17, 2005

Another take on research

While reading "Reflections of a Formal Semantacist" by Barbara Partee, I can across a section in which she mused on her greatest contributions. Oh how I would love to see more of this. Entering academia has not been an easy path for me. More words of wisdom such as the...

January 09, 2005

A morning's surprises

It's been an interesting morning for me, so interesting I feel compelled to write an entry about it. Fortunately for you, dear readers, these revelations couldn't have occurred in a more temporally appropriate manner to their dramatic realisation on the page; that is, each surprising thing was more surprising than...

December 29, 2004

I am .ogg

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