In his memoir, John Cleese fondly pays tribute to Mr. Bartlett, his public school maths master, who became a role model for him and the other boys. Cleese says Bartlett was influential because he knew a lot and made doing … Continue reading
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If human beings were mere mechanisms, like light bulbs, you’d expect us to wink out in a normal, random statistical distribution, the odds of dying on one day or another about the same. But we aren’t machines, but sentient thinking … Continue reading
We all know how the song goes: “I fought the law and the law won.” What law? The law of unintended consequences. Whose law? Murphy’s. The iron law of life is: you’re minding your own business and the roof falls … Continue reading