Diary (November 6, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday November 6, 2020.

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Cretaceous Office Supplies

Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic).

Office supply needs were simpler during the Cretaceous period.

Oceans were dominated by enormous reams of Legal standard paper.

The more familiar "Letter" standard of our day evolved later, in response to evolutionary pressure towards leaner, "just-in-time" organisms.

Cretaceous Office Supplies

Recursion is strong medicine

Recursion is strong medicine.

A measured dose heals.

Unrestrained recursion deforms; it deranges; it kills.

—Recursion is Strong Medicine

Sand-traversing caravans travel single file

Every sand-traversing caravan travels single file, as informed by the physics of sand.

• Comment @ Facebook

I'm just me, but my brother Geoff is a professional archaeologist, and our dad, Arthur, took his degree in plains Indian anthropology (dad is why I have a sweet spot, probably atavistic, for all things Sapir-Whorf).

FWIW, I get a kick from your "arsenic bronze tools" comment.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles