If my friend Pat weren’t a ginger, I would be incredibly jealous of his total genetic luck-out. Pat’s mother inherited shares in Kildare Estates (the same idea as King Edward Bay Estates) which is a sprawling compound on Bowyer Island and his father inherited a cabin on Mayne just a half-hour walk from “town”. Last [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Adventure Vacation
Posted in Journal Entries on 20/07/08 | Leave a Comment »
Science!
Posted in Science, tagged cold fusion, mars, Science, science news, Yoshiaki Arata on 04/07/08 | Leave a Comment »
I heard about the confirmation of water of mars pretty soon after it went public after spending an entire afternoon reading newspapers cover-to-cover, but I learned about it from my friend Alex. Not one mention of it in the news.
And you know what? Mainstream media has failed me again: May 22 (yes, over a month [...]
Mathematic Rhetoric from Leibniz & Goedel
Posted in Journal Entries on 03/07/08 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve finally started my essay on symbolic logic. What I’m hoping to do here is look at the origins of symbolic logic to get more about the linguistic evolution of mathematics. It’s pretty clear that people choose their words carefully in order to manipulate – I want to find out how Goedel chose his notation [...]
