Why save a robin after a chicken dinner?
For the past several weeks I have been at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for a research program. I believe this is my first time in Tennessee. I am enjoying Chattanooga a lot more than Santa Barbara (the location of the research program I was in last summer). Coming from the flattest state in…
The Library of Babel
People have strange relationships with questions that cannot be answered. Such questions come in many flavors. One class of such questions is the collection of those that are logically unanswerable. For example, let us define a Jerry to be any entity that satisfies the following. It must have brown fur. It must have a tail. It must…
Blogging Consistency
One of the hardest parts about blogging is blogging consistently. Indeed, I am guilty of being quite inconsistent. I think part of this is is because I have struggled to define the scope of what a personal blog would entail. Some of my older posts are quite opaque and were intended as a tool to…
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