Gandalf's Quote About Social Media

Indeed. ;)

"He hated it and loved it, as he hated and loved himself.
He could not get rid of it. He had no will left in the matter."
- Gandalf (about social media) pic.twitter.com/aa5nmg2iNx

— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) February 19, 2019

"Curry's Paradoxical Combinator": A 3rd Level Computer Scientist Spell

"Curry's paradoxical combinator" (see this page) is something that occurs in lambda calculus.

It sounds more like a spell, like Mordenkainen's Disjunction (or perhaps even Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter).

Curry's paradoxical combinator is a 3rd level Computer Scientist spell. It requires an intelligence score of at least 13.

The fact that the last name is "Curry" (think Tim Curry) also adds to the effect.

(Tip of the cap to Quentin Miller.)

Quote of the Day: Tempe Festival of the Arts Edition

I spent 3 hours or so at the Tempe Festival of the Arts today. I saw lots of cool stuff, and I bought a couple of things: a t-shirt with the Chinese symbol for "chaos", a hand-crafted dragon mug (the tail is the handle, for example, and its eyes make the face cute), and a print of a gecko practicing karate. I hope the print survives my trip back to Oxford (and the travelling between now and then) so that I can frame it and hang it in my apartment in Oxford.

I bought the dragon from a guy who had tons of cool dragon-themed and wizard-themed clay items. (I especially liked a couple of the lamps and the piece that had the small dragon familiar holding up the wizard's laptop so that he could use it.) Lots of stuff was reasonably large and expensive, and it unfortunately just wasn't practical for me to buy a more expensive item from him---though I totally would have if it weren't impractical. I think he doesn't ship his larger items, but I'm going to check his website anyway.

Anyway, I was wearing my "flirt harder, I'm a physicist" t-shirt today, and while I was buying my dragon mug, another customer said: "Nice shirt. [pause] Good luck." I'm amused.