No, I'd be a butcher.Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Same question.
And I'm more interested in chemistry than maths, but that's more to do with how it relates to nature than to the 'imperfection' compared to 'pure' mathematics.
No, I'd be a butcher.
Same question.
And I'm more interested in chemistry than maths, but that's more to do with how it relates to nature than to the 'imperfection' compared to 'pure' mathematics.
Well, do numbers describe reality? That question seems fundamentally the same as, do words describe reality? We assume they do, in both cases, but when we look more deeply into it it seems to become more, not less, confusing. I like that kind of meditative thing, although maybe that's more 'philosophy of mathematics' than 'mathematics.'
Yes I would be a vegetarian, slaughtering animals seem tiring.
What will you read your child, if you have one, or if you won't have one, what would you read them?
They describe reality as surely as we can experience reality, however distorted it appears through our senses.
What would I read to them? Some poetry, Lewis Carroll.What will you read your child, if you have one, or if you won't have one, what would you read them?
Same question.
Tolkien, Lewis, Pullman, Frost, Dickinson, Shakespeare, early Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, those are what I can think of now.
You did say we can't experience reality on page 1312! But I see what you mean, sorry to nitpick.
What's the biggest thing you've ever forgiven someone for?
I have forgiven my parents for not being gods.
Same question.
Same answer as a matter of fact, though maybe I'm not fully done...
Do you read webcomics? If so, which?
xkcd.com, and I suppose the two Finnish ones I read on the website of a newspaper might count, although they are traditional comic strips, three panel format (although not necessarily three panels). Those are in Finnish, of course. Some of one of them has been translated, although a good deal of the humour is linguistic in nature and untranslatable.
http://www.expat-finland.com/living_...ingerpori.html
Same question.
xkcd.com for me too, but Clopin has got me reading Hark! A Vagrant and I love it more now.
Do you like gum?
Gum, no.
As for being vegan if I had to slaughter my own meat, I am a hunter
Have you ever felt yourself die in a dream?
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
E: No, never.
Chewing gum is good, particularly for the teeth (I'd never chew other than xylitol gum), but I don't tend to chew in public.
I should clarify that the ones translated in the link above seem to be ones that don't suffer in translation.
What are your favourite paper comics?
I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but I have slaughtered my own vegetables before, because ethics.
I have died in dreams, but I don't remember if I've still been dreaming at the moment of "death".
I think this one came up recently in another thread, but that was limited to three, which was tough.
Humor: Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side, Doonesbury, Zits, Mutts
Serials: Pre-moon Dick Tracy, Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, the first few years of Li'l Abner, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon
And probably more I'm forgetting.
If you could have the complete recorded works of any one musical genre or style, what would it be?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Have you read Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac? A C&H fan will probably like it.
Complete recorded works of any musical genre or style? is 'classical', i.e. Western art music, too wide? But I don't know if I really wanted all of any genre - it's going to be an enormous amount, and at least 50% of it is going to be of below-average quality.
What's the weather like there?
Sunny and warm, year in and year out.
Worst weather you've ever experienced?
Worst weather ever? -35F.
Same question.
Snowstorm and stuck in a car on Grant's Pass in Oregon, I don't know the temperature.
What is the most absent-minded thing you've ever done? 'Cause I just found out that I left the key to the store I work at hanging out the front door for the last twelve hours.
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