Here's the latest report from your forward weather observer. It's about 6 degrees now, and looking out the window I see it has started to snow. Yay.
The last couple days John has been saying "I love..." something a lot. I love milk. I love books. I love trucks. He was just a jabberbox last night, maybe he's enjoying talking more and more and so just says all the words he knows.
If we're around the tv I'll sometimes let him listen to the Star Trek TNG theme, (the show starts at 7 on TNN). He loves it. In fact, last night he was even singing along with it! And he knew a lot of it, and was even doing to bum-bummmm at the end of some of the phrases. he's too funny.
Game 5 of Man vs. Machine today. I've always been of the opinion though that it's not that big a deal if a computer beats a human at chess, even at the grandmaster level. I
mean, chess is ideally suited for a computer. The rules are easily defined, and it can calculate so many positions, so quickly, that it shouldn't be a surprise if computers get good enough to beat the best humans.
I started in on the Martin Amis book. Wonderful stuff. Contains essays and crits on a whole range of stuff, going back to 1970, from It Takes A Village and Iron John to Austen and Dickens to Mailer and DeLillo. As with the best critiques, they aren't a synopsis of a work, but a fresh, engaging look at the subject matter, and Amis is so good at using language, and has that characteristic British (and Amis) wit. In an essay that decries an alarmist environmental work, he says "...the average Eskimo will spend all winter under the mosquito nets, playing host to successive bouts of malaria, ringworm, encephalitis and dengue fever."
The last couple days John has been saying "I love..." something a lot. I love milk. I love books. I love trucks. He was just a jabberbox last night, maybe he's enjoying talking more and more and so just says all the words he knows.
If we're around the tv I'll sometimes let him listen to the Star Trek TNG theme, (the show starts at 7 on TNN). He loves it. In fact, last night he was even singing along with it! And he knew a lot of it, and was even doing to bum-bummmm at the end of some of the phrases. he's too funny.
Game 5 of Man vs. Machine today. I've always been of the opinion though that it's not that big a deal if a computer beats a human at chess, even at the grandmaster level. I
mean, chess is ideally suited for a computer. The rules are easily defined, and it can calculate so many positions, so quickly, that it shouldn't be a surprise if computers get good enough to beat the best humans.
I started in on the Martin Amis book. Wonderful stuff. Contains essays and crits on a whole range of stuff, going back to 1970, from It Takes A Village and Iron John to Austen and Dickens to Mailer and DeLillo. As with the best critiques, they aren't a synopsis of a work, but a fresh, engaging look at the subject matter, and Amis is so good at using language, and has that characteristic British (and Amis) wit. In an essay that decries an alarmist environmental work, he says "...the average Eskimo will spend all winter under the mosquito nets, playing host to successive bouts of malaria, ringworm, encephalitis and dengue fever."
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