As foreshadowed in my blog post here, I came up with a method of FTL communications. I finally took the time to remember it and write it on a post-it note, which I will reproduce here: Read the rest of this entry »

Bet you didn't see that coming, did you?

The other day when I was ordering pizza, I got to thinking about point-of-view assumptions that are ingrained in my English-speaking culture; I suppose that these examples could be called culturally or anglocentrically deictic. (I can't speak for other English-speaking cultures, so I don't know how inherent these assumptions are in other cultures.) Read the rest of this entry »

I've uploaded this one in advance

We've been waiting for you

And here it is.