Curious Fish

Yes, I forgot I have a personal blog. But I did read two very interesting things today, and you should take notice:
My real function is best described by an epithet that may, in future years, sum up 2006 with the same grim efficiency that terms like ‘Peace with Honor,’ ‘Iran-Contra,’ ‘Florida Recount,’ and ‘Shock […]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook […]

When Donal Young was 15, he was hailed as the hope of U.S. tennis. He was the youngest kid to win a junior Grand Slam tournament ever, while at the same time being the world’s top ranked junior. Now, at 18, Donald Young is far from a star. He is playing some low-level tournaments, and […]

The world is said to be small, but just as often it is also weird. Here’s some odd connections I’ve noticed in the past few days:

I heard somewhere that the Coen Brothers’ new movie is doing well at Cannes. Intrigued, I decided to enrich myself by watching a few of their most recent flickrs, […]

It’s a German word and it can be translated as past-beating. I’ll explain.
Tipped by a short blog entry in The Economist, I read this review of The Lives of Others, the Oscar-winning German movie on spying in 1980s East Germany. I saw the movie in Toronto a few weeks ago, and it left me […]

The latest thing in Surrey right now is downloading high-pitched tones that only children can hear [the 17kHz “Mosquito”] on to their mobiles, Bluetoothing them around, and then starting up a cacophony in lessons - they can hear it and double up in agony, but their teacher can’t.
From this interesting article in the Guardian on […]