Was driving around Santa Monica last night with Mindy, trying to find an Indonesian restaurant that had been recommended to us, when hunger wins out and we finally decide to broaden our palates for the night. Good thing, too–we ended up at a small Damascan joint called Sham. Full of ambiance and good food. Grilled/stewed […]
Category Archives: thought
Mediterranean Food
06-Jan-05Thought for the night: We humans are amazingly good at finding patterns in data. So good, in fact, that we can even find patterns where there are none. The Skeptic’s Dictionary’s Law of Truly Large Numbers talks about just this…
Rene Magritte – Clairvoyance
05-Dec-04I like this picture. It talks to me about what it is to be a good artist, and a good designer. To see the potential as clearly as (or even more clearly than) one sees the actual… I love the way the artist is staring so intently at the egg, as if copying down from […]
Stabilization of Technology
08-Nov-04I can’t wait for the day when computer and display technology stabilizes the way that mechanical technology has. I can buy a quality wrist-watch, and 5, 20, 50 years from now, it will still be functional, aesthetic, and useful. The cell phone that I bought this year will be behind-the-times a year from now and […]
And Bush Jr. has won. As a Christian I support the morality he says he stands for, but can I really trust the moral integrity of a man that attempted (and, most scarily, actually succeeded!) to pull the wool over his country’s eyes and link the 9/11 tragedy to his completely separate agenda for Iraq? […]
Cultural Differences, Work, and Play
31-Oct-04Some interesting cultural differences came up at a Halloween party I was at last night: A friend of a friend (just came over to America from South Korea about 2 months ago, and who is now a grad student at UCLA) commented “I’ve gone to the library to study a couple times, and I’ve noticed […]