Here’s something good
March 05, 2008 • 10:51 am
The Cambridge University Press website has a feature where if you double click on a word, it looks it up automatically in their reference books. I think this is a good idea. I wish the whole world was this easy.
Which prompts me to question whether I really do want the world to be that easy.
Which, in turn, prompts me to want to explain what I meant by that, but then that prompts me to think that by making things deliberately obscure, I’ll make you think about what I mean. And by saying that I’m hinting at what I can’t be bothered to explain. But also making you think.
Try to extricate what on earth I’m talking about and pop your answers on a postcard. Then type what you wrote on the postcard and put it in the comments. I’ll shut up now.
2 Comments
Babychaos wrote:
Nope, it’s no good, I’ve no idea what I mean so I’ll have to leave it there…
Cheers
BC
March 05, 2008 • 1:59 pm
Mark wrote:
I was making a point about how computers are making everything easier, and how that is making people less able to think because they don’t have to solve no problems no more.
You can also read into that a general mistrust of modernity because what all the health service and all that progress we’re doing, we might be making ourselves too vulnerable to not being able to be cavemen any more.
Cavemen didn’t have health services and they did pretty well for themselves.
Well that’s totally not true: basically everything in this comment is negligible apart from the first paragraph and this one, but that is a logical paradox because if it were true, this paragraph wouldn’t need to exist, but it does exist and it makes a reference to the paragraphs it calls “negligible”. So that’s a headache if you put a lot of stock in logic.
March 10, 2008 • 12:45 am
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