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The matter of unconscious communication came to mind again today. I was reading Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco, when I remembered that the best explanation for beauty among humans is as a sign of genetic superiority. If someone has healthy genes it shows up as healthy, well-proportioned features. Observations and measurements have shown that a woman whose waist measurement is 70% of her hip measurement is ideal in that way, I didn’t have anything to do with that study, but it accords ...

In spite of my best efforts to stay under the radar as much as possible, they finally caught me and I have been stuck on Jury duty this past week. Just got out today. The experience all in all on the one hand there were parts of it that were kind of interesting, but it was also a very soul sucking process. The worse part was the commute back and forth every day. The court was in the city, SF and I took BART there and back, and had to get up at 7 in the morning and did not get back home tell around ...

A reindeer.
So. Only nine days until Christmas. Let's review the situation.
No tree.
No decorations.
No bird.
No presents.
Not enough cards.

Remember how I said I didn't want to cut it too fine this year?

Mum went out to shop. While browsing various retailers' websites I found a Cliff Richard gift set that I'm sure one of my aunts would love. So mum went out to buy it.

While she was out I got down to making cards, ...

I am one with the community. Butts are used for toilets. Leaving out a 't' in that word has left my dictionary. I am a man without a father, with the infinitely small soul of a piece of sap ready to flood the terraces of banality at any point. When there is no call for alarm, help is granted by a 6th sense outside of sight, taste, touch, sound and smell. I drift languidly in the night as a stalker of atoms and grasshoppers. The latter bounces through the wind to my blessed canal of wax and somehow ...

I was looking for something interesting to write about. After discarding current events and such, I started looking for unanswered questions that I might be able to help with. The unanswered scientific questions are the same old, and some things were included because the writer hadn't been paying attention, or because the article was not up to date. Then I switched to Philosophical questions. Some of the questions were the same. But a few are different.

1. Why is there something ...