For every four days you live, you get three days closer to death.

This made me smile.

Have you ever wondered what the life of a Michelin Guide critic is like?

You have to know a lot about food and you have to eat a lot.

This could be generalized to pretty much everything:

“That woman was sexy…Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won’t screw you, don’t do it for them.”

What was God doing before he created everything 10,000 years ago? Beholding the void and marvelling at the perfect nothing he had made. Hah.

Einstein expressed the same idea a little more clearly: “For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition.”

The whole letter is worth a read.

Bruce Feiler explains how to get a table in any restaurant in the world (via Jason Kottke).

Amazing.

The justification for technique is being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it.

Ansel Adams, via Jack Shedd.

Ants looking for aliens: we’ve searched dozens of these floor tiles for several common types of pheromone trails. If there were intelligent life up there, we would have seen its messages by now.

The Royal Society (a national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth) issued a study concluding that it is now feasible to start geo-engineering the climate.

The same week, researchers at UCLA reported the discovery of previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere in the earth’s upper atmosphere.

“It’s like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun.” said Larry Lyons, a co-author of the research.

To paraphrase Stevie Wonder: when you mess with things that you don’t understand, you suffer.

Shitmydadsays.