Edward Docx, on writing
“Writers are people who find writing more difficult than other people”

Behind the School in Liberty Village, Toronto, Labour Day Weekend 2011.

Two thumbs up for Casino Jack. Willy Loman meets Michael Corleone in the slime known as Washington, DC

Great lunch at School on Saturday.

happy family at School, Toronto

Great dinner at Simple Bistro.

One of the great challenges in blogging is a frame of reference.  All bloggers should be able to answer the question: Why do I blog?

Some blogs are well-focused, some are random reflections, some well thought out, some not.

Twitter has helped the blogosphere by providing a home to those of limited thought to reach out to those of limited attention span. Twitting is to communication what candy floss is to nutrition. Initially a quick hit, but, in the end, unsatisfying. (more…)

The Return of a Static universe and the End of Cosmology, a paper just published online in the Journal of Relativity and Gravitation, argues that in 100 billion years, everything else we can see will have been pushed so far away by the universe’s expansion that all other sources of light will have been redshifted beyond our ability to detect them. All evidence of the big bang will have disappeared and all matter other than that in our galaxy will be invisible. Indeed, our view of the universe will look suspiciously like it did in the pre-Hubble days.

The authors go on to ponder what this means in terms of the anthropic principle: the idea that we exist in a universe that’s got conditions favorable to life largely because anything else would preclude any life arising that could ponder the universe. They suggest that there’s another layer of complexity on top of that, namely that we only recognize that there is an anthropic principle observationally verify that we live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe!”

http://arstechnica.com/