ם The Fall of the Spice Girls
A text message recently sent from my phone, taken out of context:
baby spice should have had a stronger immune system
Discuss amongst yourselves.
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• Archive for April, 2007
ם Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Tonight I was buying some food, and the cashier was whistling a familiar tune.
“Monty Python?” I asked. He told me I was the first person all night to know that, so he gave me a free box of Ritz crackers.
Hooray free crackers! Monty Python, you’ve saved me again.
ם Things I Saw Today…
Two men having a conversation in Spanish. The taller one delivered his dialog in speech, as expected, but the shorter one carried out his entire half in song.
I wish I knew what they were talking/singing about.
ם My Love/Hate Affair with Mathematics
Why I both love and hate mathematics:
From Volume I of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russel’s Principia Mathematica, page 379:
“From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1+1=2.”
This proof of this proposition is completed 373 pages later, on page 86 of Volume II, along with the note:
“The above proposition is occasionally useful.”
Thanks, Math. Love/hate you.
ם Twitter
So after hearing enough about it, I finally went ahead and signed up for Twitter.
I can see the appeal, but really, it’s pretty boring sans friends to make it interesting. So you should go ahead and sign up and add me.
ם The Strangest Request His Dealer Ever Heard
Keith Richards, apparently having run out of new things to snort, did a line of his cremated father’s ashes.
He once snorted the remains of his own dad, Bert, leavened with a bit of cocaine to make it go down easier. “He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared … It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive,” says Keith.
What a character.