Steve Smith wrote at 10/14/2013 04:48 PM:
"Do you even KNOW what entropy means?"
Then substitute "entropy" with "anthropomorphic" or "non-ergodic" or "quantum
entanglement".
Ha! I received a good one awhile back: Do you even math?
My reaction at the time was surprisingly mature, especially for an impulsive jerk like me. My immediate thought was ... well, no, not so much anymore. [sigh] It's weird, though, every few years (perhaps 5 or so -- oddly, about the same amount of time I can spend living in one place before freaking out) I get caught up in (never interesting, never profound, never productive, always seemingly stupid) calculations. I'll flail around for about a week, at the most a month, wasting lots of paper. Then I just move on, for no apparent reason. As I age, I find that I still do this sporadically. But it's rarely math anymore. Now it can be studying anything from the neuroscience of cats to engineered wood. [sigh] I'm _hoping_ my next surprise energy bout will be about mushrooms. Since we moved into this yard, I've managed to nurture the dirt around the house so that it looks more like living soil. And in the past 1.5 years, I've had a peppering of beautiful but bewildering mushrooms.
Too bad I'm too lazy to do any ... [ahem] ... mycology. But I have other hopes ... bee keeping ... actually using Haskell for something ... grokking the local zoning laws ...
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