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Rounding Errors
Read more: Rounding ErrorsFor as long as I can remember one of my most favorite pastimes has been thinking about god, the universe and everything. Half of the books I read deal with this subject one way or another (the other half is Science Fiction, which often deals with the very same topics). In the past few years […]
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Semantics and the lowest common denominator
Read more: Semantics and the lowest common denominatorThis is how huge pyramids of fringe theories are built on hot air.
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The Parabola of Life
Read more: The Parabola of LifeAround 2006 I read a book by Ray Kurzweil called “Fantastic Voyage”. Somebody had recommended it. There are many suggestions in there about how to lead a healthier life and how to live long enough to get in on the “singularity”. Kurzweil is part of a group of people who believe that technological developments will […]
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The medium makes the message
Read more: The medium makes the messageIf you read many of the posts on this blog you’ll notice that I have been a musician for most of the past 30 years or so. Specifically, a “Jazz Guitarist”. Many knowledgeable folks have tried to classify what “jazz” is or what qualifies a certain piece of music as “jazz”. I admit that I […]
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Gullible? Me?
Read more: Gullible? Me?The two people who drop in on this blog every once in a while might have noticed that recently (March 2011) the subtitle changed from: “Keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out” to “exploring Deep Reality”. WTF? When I started Mr. Gullible in 2008 I was on the height […]
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Floyd – a strange detour
Read more: Floyd – a strange detourHow could I ever try to become a jazz guitar player? I tried, hard, for quite a while. But, unnoticed by me, at first, and in the last few years becoming more and more obvious, I drifted away from what I thought I had wanted to be. People blame the strangest reasons for picking up […]
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And the pizza spoke to me
Read more: And the pizza spoke to meMy kids like their pizza with cheese – nothing else. I, on the other hand, love veggies and last Sunday at the dinner table I randomly threw some garlic and a handful of broccoli sprouts on my slice. I was just about to take a bite when this face was staring at me! “The Virgin […]
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Rebooting Reality, part 1
Read more: Rebooting Reality, part 1I have often wondered what would happen if we could start over with something. For example language. Let’s say we wind back time to the beginning of the development of language – assuming, for the moment, there is such a thing as a starting point. If we let it run again from that moment how […]
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