In other news
I read the beginning of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (most famous as the author of The Shockwave Rider). This novel is interesting so far for its picture of overpopulation. There's also some treatment of race relations. This novel is also known as the source for quotations from Chad Mulligan's The Hipcrime Vocab, which perhaps plays the same role in Stand on Zanzibar that Emmanuel Goldstein's The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism plays in 1984.
Some of these lines are fairly famous among Unix geeks (who may have encountered them in fortune files). For example:
HISTORY Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
I went to the chiropractor and I helped Zack put in a new hard drive and then went to dinner with him. I still have a lot of things I have to get done that I've put off.
As you might expect, I wrote some more of "Existence and Uniqueness": currently almost 3000 lines, 25,000 words. I need to make a "records" list: longest letter, longest written work, longest conversation, longest walk, longest poem, etc.
My arms are a bit sore -- I think the chiropractor helped. Certainly, writing that poem is a possible explanation for my arm pain.
I also read a little more about Ellsberg's Paradox and its interesting implications. Maybe some time I'll read a bit more technical game theory than I have; game theorists are certainly interesting, colorful characters.
