Archive for the 'Ideas' Category

Isomorphisms

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Lately I’ve been thinking about how some skills (usually “hand-eye coordination” skills) are based on an individual’s ability to create an isomorphism. That is, the ability to map one’s body onto something abstract (or at least ‘non-body’).

Vocabulary Verbs

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Something I find interesting: English verbs that take specific objects.
Verbs such as “eat” use types of objects, such as “edible things/foodstuffs”. But I’m talking about verbs that traditionally use only one or two different objects, even though other objects would make sense logically. Some example verbs that I can think of, and their ‘default’ objects:

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Time Travel

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

For a long time, time travel has fascinated me.

Robots, Zombies, and Unicorns.