Rambling
cwilcox | March 20, 2009I woke up this morning feeling somehow lighter, freer. The air smelled sweet and the sun was shining - a beautiful day in paradise. But that was not the cause of my elated mood - it's always nice here in Florida. No, something was different. Something had changed.
Oh, that's right. I'd CUT OFF ALL MY HAIR.
It's amazing how good you feel waking up to tangle-free locks first thing in the morning. Having had my hair long for years now, I just took for granted that every morning had to start with a battle with the rat's nest just to look like I own a comb. Truth is, as good as it looked when it…
cwilcox | January 5, 2009You may have seen the proof before. Roughly speaking, it goes like this:
girls = time x money (because girls are time and money*)
time = money (proverbial cliche) therefore:
girls = money2 Then, since
money = evil1/2 (generally credited to The Bible, I Timothy 6:10), THEREFORE:
girls =( evil1/2)2, or girls = |evil|
However, it has recently come to my attention that the assumption that "money = evil" may not be entirely accurate. Indeed, according to Chinese proverb:
time > money
Subsituting this into the proof, we find that girls are not, in fact, the root of all evil, but…
cwilcox | November 9, 2008There's nothing a good Sci-Fi thriller, conspiracy theorist, or high-tech spy movie loves more than the idea of using a computer to read someone's mind. It's the ultimate way of attaining information. A person won't tell you who they work for? Just hook up some wires and find out for yourself! Well, we may just be headed to a place where we can do just that.
A new study published in Science has found a neural footprint for speech recognition, and they can determine not only what was said, but who said it.
The study used a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a…