Architecture & Design & Poetry Entropy | 27 May 2007
Against the city’s gleaming spires,
Above the ships that ply the stream,
A bridge of haunting beauty stands –
Fulfillment of an artist’s dream.
From deep beneath the tidal flow
Two granite towers proudly rise
To hold the pendent span aloft –
A harp against the sunset skies.
Each pylon frames, between its shafts,
Twin Gothic portals pierced with blue
And crowned with magic laced [...]
Economic Behaviour & Thought Provoking Entropy | 23 May 2007
When playing this simple game, people consistently reject the rational choice. In fact, by acting illogically, they end up reaping a larger reward–an outcome that demands a new kind of formal reasoning
Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline [...]
The first microprocessor only had 22 hundred transistors. We are looking at something a million times that complex in the next generations—a billion transistors. What that gives us in the way of flexibility to design products is phenomenal.”
—Gordon E. Moore
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore saw the future. His prediction, now popularly known as [...]
Hope is a strange invention –
A Patent of the Heart –
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out –
Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own –
–Emily Dickinson
Philosophy Entropy | 20 May 2007
We almost never see Reality…
What we see is a reflection of it in form of words & concepts, which we then proceed to take for reality…
The world we live in is mostly a mental construct. Words are indicators, not reflections, of reality. People feed on words, live by words, would fall apart without them..
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
- Carl Sandburg, ‘Poetry Considered’.