Finding the kidnapped soldiers


I see the Israeli’s have found the two kidnapped soldiers, which is good (correction – still not found). Thought a bit of dry humour is also inspired: How do you find a needle in a haystack? Burn down the haystack of course.



Or if you prefer a more technical variation of the joke, see my haystack entry on the splendid science joke website.

Fractal 1 Zen 0


Something a bit pretentious wrote in 2000 on the Chaospsych listserv:
“I propose that simplicity and complexity are just one-and-the-same, there is no division, they are inter-related. That sounds a very simplisitic thing to say, I know. You gotta get fractal.” Nothing very original in that. It’s the application where the challenge lies. But I’m ‘getting’ a bit Zen aren’t I?