You were made up of this bunch of molecules at birth, and within a few years, those molecules would have been replaced completely.
Yet you are still you.
You were born with certain character traits, and in years, many of those traits would have changed.
Yet you are still you.
Or are you?
Tomorrow has a new blog for editors to post announcements, news, etc.
Here’s my first post there:
Woohoo! We now have a blog!
So this is Tomorrow’s new blog. Well, Tomorrow itself is already a kind of blog. So this is a blog within a blog. Whatever. We’ll be posting Tomorrow-related news, announcements, as well as personal views from the editors here.
Some of us have been pushing for this ’side blog’ soon after Tomorrow was announced, because we felt the need to talk to our readers and contributors about things which aren’t quite suitable to be on the main page, and would prove to be a lot of work if we contacted everyone individually. This blog would be an ideal channel for such stuff.
Also, I hope this blog will allow you to have some insight into the weird happenings within Tomorrow, the issues we face, so you can give us ideas and be part of the effort to make Tomorrow a fantastic site!
Enough blabbering - I need to get back to my real job (yeah I don’t get paid for this Tomorrow thingy).
I want this camera - the Leica Digilux 2 (dpreview).
It’s small and light (compared to my big fat digital single lens reflex camera with a big fat lens even without the big fat external flash) and it has all those lovely rings and knobs just like a good ol’ manual camera.
But it’s not cheap.
it’s easier to read chinese text reversed (mirror-image) than to read english text reversed…
Zac, a 5 year old boy, who loves animals.
Zac, staring straight into my eyes: Kor kor, what is your favourite animal?
Me: Hmmmmm….. I don’t know! What is your favourite animal?
Zac: I like lion, and I like horse!
Me: Ahh… lion and horse! I know what animal I like!
Zac, coming even closer with wide-open eyes: What?
Me: I like beef!
Zac, scratching his little head: Beef?
Me: Yes - beef!
Zac looks confounded. The animal encyclopedia that he memorised did not have any animal called “beef”.
Zac: How do you draw beef?
Me, caught mildly off-guard: Ermmm….. have you seen a hamburger?
Zac nods.
Me: You know the the hamburger has two pieces of bread? The brown piece of meat in between the two pieces of bread is beef!
Zac furrows his brow.
Me: I like chicken too. Do you like to eat chicken?
Zac nods a little slowly.
Me: But… but how do you know you like lion and horse? Have you eaten them before?
Zac, looking disturbed: No!
Me: Then how do you know you like horse and lion?
Zac looks perplexed.
Me: You know what? Lions like to eat horses!
Zac, very disturbed: No!!!
Me: They let lions eat horse meat in the zoo!
Zac, about to cry: Noo!!!
Me: Okay, okay….
Keep me away from your kids.
Can’t wait for the images to come out. And the documents.
Here’s the Oxford Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project home page. But there seems to a bit of hype surrounding the whole thing. Wait and see.
A somewhat related site is the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts.
Women are from Venus,
And men from Mars.
I’m from Pluto.
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor,
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.
