Having worked with some Indian consultants I've come to believe that it's culturally ok to sniff, and not a polite indecisive sniff - a serious snorting, a nostril distorting rip. The monotony of it gives the sound a far-away quality, it distorts my appreciation of it, makes me think of a polite farting of the nose. It's humorous and silly, but simultaneously disgusting. My day is interspersed with them. My thought process is punctuated by them. I work to the rhythm of "the hoc". I think to the interruptive inhalation of streams of snot.

This wonderful instrument of ours...

Spam mash-up

SPAM mash-up. Natural language processing to process SPAM, and build an intelligible conversational snippet. Relationship to "normal" speech. What does the result tell us about ourselves?

Stephen Hawking's Universe EP6

Feyman

Hofmann's Potion

"As a matter of fact, I think intention is the bottom line in life anyway, for all of us, at any time."

It's July.