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THE POET AS SCIENTIST

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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, October 31, 2016

Dedicated to lady methodist undertakers everywhere!

Dedicated to lady methodist undertakers everywhere! Sung to the tune of Rogers and Hammerstein's "I enjoy being a Girl" I enjoy being a Ghoul I'm a ghoul and by me that's only great I am proud that my hands are all bloody that I walk with a limp and salivate With my neck kind of swivelly and swervey I adore being dressed in something black When my date comes to get me at my place Out I go with my deceased John or Billy Like a filly who is ready for the race When I have a brand new hairdo With my eyelashes all in curls I float as the clouds on air do I enjoy being a ghoul. When men are dead and putrefying And their teeth aren't teeth but bones I just lap it up like honey I enjoy being a ghoul. I flip when a mourner sends me flowers I drool over dresses trimmed with black I talk on the telephone for hours with a pound and a half of gore upon my face I'm strictly a necrophilic And my future I hope will be In the home of a brave and free corpse who'll enjoy being a corpse, having a ghoul like me When dead men stink like excrement I'm randy As around in a dance we whirl It goes to my head like brandy I enjoy being a ghoul With someone with eyes that moulder I say I love every rotting fool That falls on my ivory shoulder I enjoy being a ghoul When I hear a complementary whistle That greets my hearse by the sea I turn and I glower and I gristle But I'm happy to know the whistles meant for me I'm strictly a necrophilic And my future I hope will be In the home of a brave and free corpse who'll enjoy being a corpse, having a ghoul like me

Monday, October 03, 2016

Are Russell and Whitehead's solutions to Logical Paradoxes valid?

The proposition "This statement is false" is a classic logical paradox. Russell and Whitehead argued in the Principia Mathematica that this paradox could be resolved by the principle that no proposition can describe itself, or that no function can be an argument of itself. But, doesn't this principle violate the notion of recursion, one of the fundamentals of modern mathematics, and computing science? And, after all, the proposition "This proposition, is a proposition" is certainly describing itself, and is perfectly clear, and perfectly accurate, if somewhat tautological. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say the problem with the proposition "This statement is false" is simply that it is totally ambiguous, or really, no proposition, at all?