Location is Everything
Sometimes the juxtaposition of two unrelated ideas accidentally begets an interesting, new one.
Yesterday, MyBlogLog told me that two different visitors arrived at my site, one from a search engine search on “San Angelo tamale“, and the other from “New York subway turnstyle“. It’s delightful to see such disparate cultures linking to me (however tenuously), and to watch my analytics dash put pins in the map representing tourists from all over the internet.
On the other hand, this morning’s NY Times showcases a thumbsucker on Google’s (so far uneventful) attempts to break into the radio business and an up-close-and-personal on Walmart’s internal investigators — while giving shorter shrift to new data on the income gap between the richest and poorest Americans (it is growing) and to the whistleblower case claiming the federal government deliberately and systematically undercollected royalties from big oil at the expense of U.S. citizens and Native American nations.
Oh well.
April 10th, 2007 14:01
“Sometimes the juxtaposition of two unrelated ideas accidentally begets an interesting, new one.”
I think that’s called the Hegelian dialectic.
;-)
M2
April 10th, 2007 20:22
which reminds me of a knock-knock joke. . . .
June 5th, 2007 15:33
[color=#3993ff]Einstein dies and goes to heaven only to be informed that his room is not yet ready. “I hope you will not mind waiting in a dormitory. We are very sorry, but it’s the best we can do and you will have to share the room with others” he is told by the doorman.
Einstein says that this is no problem at all and that there is no need to make such a great fuss. So the doorman leads him to the dorm. They enter and Albert is introduced to all of the present inhabitants. “See, Here is your first room mate. He has an IQ of 180!”
“That’s wonderful!” says Albert. “We can discuss mathematics!”
“And here is your second room mate. His IQ is 150!”
“That’s wonderful!” says Albert. “We can discuss physics!”
“And here is your third room mate. His IQ is 100!”
“That’s wonderful! We can discuss the latest plays at the theater!”
Just then another man moves out to capture Albert’s hand and shake it. “I’m your last room mate and I’m sorry, but my IQ is only 80.”
Albert smiles back at him and says, “So, where do you think interest rates are headed?”
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