Tag: rambling
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Mathematical Nihilism
Lets say you have a bowl filled with 100 rocks. 1 is painted red, 1 is painted green, and 98 of the rocks are unpainted. What percentage of the rocks in the bowl are painted? This is a fairly standard math problem for teaching percentages – and the answer of course is 2%. Conversely, if…
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Drones
For the past Month or so, there has been excited/panicked talk about Drone sightings in New Jersey and surrounding states in the North-eastern portion of the USA. I live in a completely different part of the country but I’ve caught my co-workers talking about it and debating how serious it is and “who could be…
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Sky Isn’t Blue
Have you ever actually bothered to look up at the sky? More than 50% of the time in any given location – some more than others – it is NOT blue! Even when it is partly/mostly blue there are generally other colours up there! And even when it IS entirely blue, on a perfectly cloudless,…
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Follow-Up on Lies
My semi-recent post on compulsive liars wasn’t my best writing, went off the rails, and was kind of a rambling mess. This one probably won’t be much better, but meh. Maybe we’ll manage to stay a little more on topic here at least, we’ll see. Anyway as you may have guessed the previous post was…
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Compulsive Liars
I don’t really understand people who feel the need to lie compulsively, even when there is no gain from it, or could actually be negative impacts vs just telling the truth. I don’t mean just lying in general. Almost all of us lie, I am no exception to this rule – but most of us…
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Sparks
Many have compared life to the journey of a spark that rises from the fire, drifts with the breeze, and finally fades to ashes. Further analogies can be drawn using the facts that every spark stays burning for a different length of time, some sparks travel a long distance while others end up right back…
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Favourites
“What is your favourite Movie?” I dunno “What is your favourite Music/Song?” I dunno What is your favourite Food?” I dunno “What is your favourite Colour?” I dunno You would think someone would know their own favourite things right? It seems obvious! And so these are so often the go-to questions when starting conversations with…