DISQUS

Happy Birthday, you young'em. In just four short years you will be as old than Jesus was when he died for us. Another thing I noticed about Mary and her pregnancy was only Luke tells the story from her prespective. Mark and John don't include the pregnancy or the nativity, and Matthew tells it from Joseph's veiw. What comes across is how confident she was despite what was going on around her. The magnifcat was sung before Joseph found out, and her praise of God was not based on what others did but how she intergrated her life and faith together. I see this same faith in my expectant wife.

Good to know that's available on Netflix! Sorry to hear it was a drag. I would have been enticed by the premise -- I love to see a good debunking... but it's weak if the debunker attempts to debunk an entire concept by picking a straw man as representative of that concept.

Okay, great answer, thanks! Sounds like the winner's clipping right along... but if it's cool to run just to finish, maybe I'll take a stab at it!

Ahhh ... a 5K, I'm in. I find the 16 milers... well, a little looooong for my taste. Though I'm curious -- what are you thinking of as a moderate pace? What's an average (not a winning, but middle of the pack) pace for a 16 mile trail run? Maybe that'll help me imagine how I could (or could not) work up to one.

Hmm... good one. I'd read the Hemingway one before. The others were terrific. Here's a first stab at it by me -- revisions to come: "He lies awake beside her bathrobe."

I think you nailed it. Especially the details. Tragic. Beautiful. Nicely written. "Before I left Dover, I ran a quick errand, passing a woman on the street who was singing an impromptu, a capella rendition of the national anthem, tears running down her face. It was such an achingly beautiful day, the kind that made me think Baz Luhrmann was right, the real troubles in life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you on an idle Tuesday." Nicely put.

Hey, thanks for the nod, Jen! And for the mention of the Banks event. I'm hoping to get to it. Also, I've never written a novel in three days, but I finished one in two weeks once. Not a very good one, but a bet's a bet! Of course that was before kids ... now I'd aim for two years and hope for the best. I'll leave the marathon speed noveling to the young and vigorous ... have at it Deus Ex.

Oh my, it just keeps getting better and better!

Of course then you could down four cups of black coffee and your liver, at least, would be all set.

Sweeeeet! Now Don can start posting stream reports -- water temperature and what's hatching -- straight from the river!

Hi Matt, a paper which predates Kochen&Conway's and has similar ideas is this one by Yurtsever:
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806059

Saw it too, and loved it. (And I'm even older than you!) Enough so I was inclined to post about it as well. This movie was also my three-and-a-half-year-old son's first time sitting through a feature in the theater -- a real milestone!

Hi Matt, I noticed your new paper on the arxiv. What about a Leiferfest in this blog, i.e. a short description of the Bayesian net programme you're interested in?
best,

Who says the world isn't like that? There's a lot of magic, a lot of tragedy and a lot of happy endings in life. We just get trained not to see it -- somehow cynicism has been awarded the status of a virtue. Romanticism strikes chords in us because on some deep level, it is true!

Obviously the poll results were self-selecting and so left out many listeners with sound musical and historical judgment... Seriously, though, this reminds me a bit of the blog post a while back that cited a survey in which the former Nirvana singer was the top rock hero of all time or somthing... clearly these polls reflect overly heavily a specific demographics' "here and now" or worse, the "now" of that demographics' formative years, and not a broader historical sense... It's sort of like asking a 12-year-old kid who's only been exposed to Friendly's and McDonalds what the greatest culinary invention of all time is. Would we be surprised if he said, "hamburgers"?

Nothing wrong with ABBA...

"...you come upon a story that just makes you want to cry -- and then go hug your children." You said it. Though that's true of half of the news that comes across the transom some days...