Comment on Breaking news… by: Bernard Chazelle

Come on now. Be kind.

The way I understand evolution is that there were happy monkeys eating bananas and playing Tarzan (no, I didn't say Tarjan) in the trees all day. Then, one morning, the chief monkey told his son: " Pat, if you don't get off that tree, I'll ask God to turn you into a televangelist! " The rest is, as we say, history. Pat Robertson never got over and vowed to dedicate his life to the cause of anti-monkey bigotry. It's actually a very sad story of self-hatred. When George W. Bush gave him a banana in the White House, the story has it that Pat Robertson looked at it, muttered "Dad, forgive me for my sins," and wept.

So, Sariel, please show some kindness, if that sentiment is not completely alien to you.

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Breaking news..."

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Ah, now I understand why evolution is "wrong" and why an alternative theory must be proposed. :P

Great post!

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Comment on A random walk gem by: Sariel Har-Peled

Probably. It does sound like the suitcases are having the real fun of traveling. Heck, the suitcase I parted with last year in the airport, with a pray on my lips, unrealistic expectations in my heart, and tears in my eyes, might have spent all this time, tanning in a beach in Brazil. And who knows, if the suitcase would ever get to an airport again, it just might randomly walk back home, who knows?

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The butterfly effect - a field study

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(Taken in Clinton lake.)

One of the nice things about the big flat (the new nickname of shampoo-banana with regard to New Orleans [did you know that [shampoo][2] comes from Hindi?],) is that we have a lot of nice parks around here. For example, there are two small pars less then five minutes walk from my home, there is very nice park ten minutes walk from my home, and so on. So, here is a partial list of nice parks (sorted by distance):

1. [Japan house][3]
2. [Crystal lake park][4]
3. [Middlebrook park][5] (with a [picture][6] of a lady guarding the corn fields)
4. [Lake in the woods][7]
5. [Forest Glen Preserve][8]
6. [Kickapoo Park][9]
7. [Clinton lake][10]
8. [Turkey run][11]

[1]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/misc/blog/05/09/18/butterfly.gif

[2]: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/s/s0315800.html

[3]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/06/14/

[4]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/07/16/

[5]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/04/10/

[6]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/thumb/h/people/05/04/10/4195.html

[7]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/07/19/

[8]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/04/11/14/

[9]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/04/10/17/

[10]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/09/17/

[11]: http://www.turkeyrunstatepark.com/

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/09/18/the-butterfly-effect-a-field-study/

Clockwork Doll

by **Dalia Ravikovitch**

I was a clockwork doll that night,
and I turned left and I turned right
and when I fell and broke to bits,
they recomposed my wax and wits.

I was a proper doll once more,
my manner carefully demure;
and yet a doll of another kind—
an injured twig that tendrils bind.

And when they asked me to a ball—
although my steps were rhythmical,
they partnered me with dog and cat.

My hair was gold, my eyes were blue.
I wore a dress where flowers grew.
Cherries blazed on my straw hat.

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[Sic transit gloria mundi][1]…

[1]: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/615257.html

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/08/21/clockwork-doll/

by: Rafi

Reminds me that I have to send you a T shirt saying "You don't get older, you get better." ![;)][1] After all, how can you go backwards from a place called Kadima ? (Hebrew pun)

[1]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/wp-images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/07/26/my-days-of-greatness-now-gone-forever/#comment-110

by: Anonymous

Well, well. Now I know who is that strange individual who is loitering in my garden.

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/06/14/the-secret-garden/#comment-96