“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven after-life for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of dark.”
– Stephen Hawking
For Stephen Hawking to pass away on Pi Day and on Einstein’s birthday.
The great man knew irony. It’s like he said – the life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
I will probably remember him now every year on this day.
Black Panther was as good as everyone said it was. So happy I managed to go see it while it’s still out even if by myself.
So yeah. Nectome is a preserve-your-brain-and-upload-it company. Its chemical solution can keep a body intact for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, as a statue of frozen glass. The idea is that someday in the future scientists will scan your bricked brain and turn it into a computer simulation. That way, someone a lot like you, though not exactly you, will smell the flowers again in a data server somewhere.
I darn the darksome parts of you
You darn the darksome parts of me;
We win-win-win
‘Till something like a quilt accrues
All patch of me and swatch of you;
We wrap up in
Sow a sparrow tree love
With crying birds for fruit
O sow a sparrow tree
W.C. Woods you dress in galoshgreen
And trim your topiary birds and topiary bees
Jules bring your jars of shells
And bring a volume of your pet ghost’s poetry
Don’t you try to hide it from me!
Sow a sparrow tree love
With crying birds for fruit
O sow a sparrow tree
Martha my dear and Frances my bliss
And my favorite Frost
We’ll wear our long, wise, whitebeards
And when betrothed one+two+three+four
We sisterwives will ride on one white bike
The speed of a quail
Then we’ll stand upright
One on each white side of a whale wishbone
And tug-of-war our weight on braided marrow
Rebecca they sent us twin red-headed boys
So let’s dress them all their days in turquoise
I hope you find your ambergris
when you read this report, be reminded, think how big and terrible the gap is between the rich and the poor in this city.
(source: asia times | 10 mar 2018)
From the same report – there are 1.167 million people making over $250k/year living here – part of the reason it is getting so unbearable for the other 7 million or so.
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