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About Me

I love my mother.
In 1931, the Czech-born mathematician Kurt Godel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn't be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms of that mathematical branch itself. You might be able to prove every conceivable statement about numbers within a system by going outside the system in order to come up with new rules and axioms, but by doing so you'll only create a larger system with its own unprovable statements. The implication is that all logical systems, of any complexity, are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules.Godel's Theorem has been used to argue that a computer can never be as smart as a human being because the extent of its knowledge is limited by a fixed set of axioms, whereas people can discover unexpected truths ... It plays a part in modern linguistic theories, which emphasize the power of language to come up with new ways to express ideas. And it has been taken to imply that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.

My Interests

piano, chocolate, tetrahedron, self duals.

Music:

www.myspace.com/pistolswillair
jeff buckley, chopin, satie

Movies:

lynch.audrey.2001.chungking express. amores perros

Television:

six feet under. twin peaks. daily show. colbert report. pretty much all things comedy central and though i've been told "republican funded", the history channel. south park, family guy, robot chicken, aqua-teen hunger force,

Books:

many

My Blog

Eulogy for my mother

June 29th, 2006.My dear family and friends,I am the youngest of my mother's four sons. I was and perhaps will always be, without question or contention, a mamma's boy and as such I am proud to say tha...
Posted by eric on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:21:00 PST

that time again

John Lennon october 9, 1940 - december 8, 1980 I remember when Ayah and I were in New York I dragged her to see the Dakota building where John lived and was shot infront of and I said, "Ayah, this...
Posted by eric on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:29:00 PST

Midway to O'Hare

Some people are blessed with advanced olfactory nerves, an incredible sense of smell that is beyond the scope of ordinary human ability, for Lynn this was more of a curse. She loathed crowded public s...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ethan's Preface

If you want to know the truth, what happened that night, here it is: after the signing I dropped Lynn off at the airport. I took the train back to where I parked my car and as I was looking for my key...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

defeat in the women's department.

I went to the Levi's store in Union Square yesterday because I had some left over store credit from the usual mishaps with annual parental fashion sense. I was in search of jeans. So I picked out the ...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the 30 through China Town

On the bus a child sat next to me eating a chinese rice cake. I scooted over for him and threw his mom an "its okay I'm not a pervert smile" from across the aisle and I think it worked because she smi...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Catcher in the Rye

John Lennon October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the last supper.

"THIS brings me what my friends do not, and when faced with a decision of either THIS or you, I will opt THIS everytime." Conviction rooted in shallow soil. "THIS" was abandoned so fast it makes fo...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

your body may fall...

Physical violence as a means of redemption is ignorant. Justified as an innate human reaction to situations of intense conflict, I agree that physical violence is deeply rooted in the human condition ...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Public Exposition

  A friend once said that forgiveness of the worst of acts committed against you demonstrates a lack of self respect. I view this kind of "self-respect" as a glorified and self-projected style of mas...
Posted by eric on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST