http://posnitubek.com/ provoking thought. en andrew08@andrewswift.com Copyright 2010 2010-05-26T09:55:21+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/shorter_of_breath_and_one_day_closer_to_death/ http://posnitubek.com/site/shorter_of_breath_and_one_day_closer_to_death/#When:09:55:21Z For every four days you live, you get three days closer to death. 2010-05-26T09:55:21+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/its_not_important/ http://posnitubek.com/site/its_not_important/#When:17:46:16Z This made me smile. 2009-12-04T17:46:16+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/working_for_the_michelin_guide/ http://posnitubek.com/site/working_for_the_michelin_guide/#When:10:23:29Z 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. 2009-11-19T10:23:29+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/good_advice/ http://posnitubek.com/site/good_advice/#When:20:11:01Z 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.” 2009-10-12T20:11:01+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/einstein_and_god/ http://posnitubek.com/site/einstein_and_god/#When:15:04:08Z 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. 2009-10-12T15:04:08+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/get_into_a_good_restaurant/ http://posnitubek.com/site/get_into_a_good_restaurant/#When:16:14:09Z Bruce Feiler explains how to get a table in any restaurant in the world (via Jason Kottke). Amazing. 2009-09-25T16:14:09+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/technique/ http://posnitubek.com/site/technique/#When:15:37:18Z 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. 2009-09-21T15:37:18+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/some_of_our_assumptions_may_be_wrong/ http://posnitubek.com/site/some_of_our_assumptions_may_be_wrong/#When:14:56:13Z 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. 2009-09-21T14:56:13+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/things_that_you_dont_understand/ http://posnitubek.com/site/things_that_you_dont_understand/#When:07:10:35Z 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. 2009-09-14T07:10:35+00:00 http://posnitubek.com/site/what_happens_when_something_bigger_than_a_testicle_attacks_you/ http://posnitubek.com/site/what_happens_when_something_bigger_than_a_testicle_attacks_you/#When:15:56:55Z Shitmydadsays. 2009-09-07T15:56:55+00:00