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March 13, 2009 by musesusan

Today’s XKCD is mildly amusing in my opinion, but the tooltip text had me laughing uproariously:

 

If you actually do this, what really happens is Douglas Hofstadter appears and talks to you for eight hours about strange loops.

Speaking of Douglas Hofstadter, a thought occurred to me the other day regarding self-reference: It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an I.

And yeah, I know, I haven’t posted in a long while. I’ll get back to it, I promise! I’m working on a few long-winded posts at the moment, but in the meantime I’ll make sure to do some shorter ones as well.

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  1. on July 28, 2009 at 1:45 am mariana

    dont loose your sense of self or you ll be troubled in this world. Geek people tend to have that happen now.
    And also take care with the metaphors that build up our language concepts cause you will be driven to the bad side of content


  2. on November 28, 2009 at 1:33 am Norwegian Shooter

    Hi, found you through Skeptic’s Play. I also thought the tooltip text was great, but I didn’t really get the significance of yelling “Bloody Mary.” Can you help out?

    Also, don’t over promise and under deliver! Some good short math blog posts please!



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