qotd, belatedly

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer’s movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer’s movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are Continue reading qotd, belatedly

Movies tonight

Currently watching The X from Outer Space on satellite, and wondering just how many times Tokyo was cinematically destroyed in the 1950’s. If possible, this movie has even worse special effects than the Gojira (Godzilla) ones. The token Americans are played by the same actors as in some of the Godzilla movies. One thing that Continue reading Movies tonight

I need to get away

This is an island called Kerguelen. It’s a French possession, with a scientific base established on it – no town. It lies in the southern Indian Ocean, and is about as far from civilization as you can get, including the South Pole. The closes town of any sort is about 2,500 miles away. It’s so Continue reading I need to get away