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Coincidence of the Week
Seth also chose this week to write about entropy.
"Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature."
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Quotes of the Week
“Only entropy comes easy.” - Anton Chekhov (c.1900); also stated by Lewis Mumford (1970)
“You should call it entropy, because nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.” - John Neumann (c.1939), suggestion to Claude Shannon on what to call his new formula for information
“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.” - Vaclav Havel (1986), Czech playwright
Source: EOHT
Posted: 2026 Jan 10
Category Archives: Through Space
Drop. Snap. Repeat.
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Travelling Since 16 Hours
We have been travelling since 16 hours. We don’t want to eat. We don’t want to drink. We don’t want anything. Continue reading
Cheap and Good; Good and Cheap
One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. £280. I look again. Yes, that’s what it says. £280. In the last 24 hours I have slept, oh, about 4 hours max. My first meal of this … Continue reading
The View From Ten Thousand Feet
After hours of intermittent dozing in a space so cramped you couldn’t put convicts in it without provoking human rights complaints, my point of view is a tad jaundiced. All I want is to be once again in a place where throwing garbage on the floor is socially unacceptable. Continue reading
I’m Sorry (So Sorry)
Two things are needed to learn a language: patience and perseverance. Which of these two virtues matters more, do you think? Continue reading
But It’s So Easy
Even in English, impatience is the cat that gets my tongue. Working in Spanish just makes it so much better. Continue reading
Cats on a Hot Tin Roof
My Oxford says a cat is a “small, furry, domesticated, carnivorous quadruped.” What does it know? Continue reading
Clackety-Clack (Don’t Look Back)
Barrelling through the early-morning intersection, a bus threatens my toes, which are, admittedly, hanging over the sidewalk’s edge a little too eagerly. As the gale induced by this no-doubt speed-limit-obeying bus subsides, I step out into the crosswalk, not caring … Continue reading