Late in 1989, Gwen’s and his first son, Zarathustra Amadeus, was born. In 1993, his second son, Zebulon Ulysses, was born, he toured around extensively, and moved to New Zealand, where he lectured in the Computer Science department at Waikato University.

Birds are capable of suffering.

(Negative probabilities, infinite towers of negative energy states, or a breakdown in causality are the common issues that arise.)

If anyone had put it to me an hour before that I would suddenly find myself in the midst of a bunch of exquisitely mannered seamen whose whole purpose in life was to request the pleasure of my company for the next dance, or see to it that I was constantly supplied with cigarettes and lights and ash trays and pretty compliments, I would have been frankly incredulous (only I wouldn’t have used that phrase).

It is you who are mistaken.  You have seen too little of the world to understand.  The vegetable tuber is not the only kind of sweet potato.  The daughter of our respected Salt Commissioner Lin is also a sweet potato.

(Infinities of this type are often referred to as infra-red
divergences although in this case the ∞ is so simple that it barely deserves this name.)

This is a high frequency — or short distance — infinity known as an ultra-violet divergence.  This divergence arises because of our hubris.

Yes – that moment at Yale, that’s what was happening: I was “participating in mutability”!  It sounds much more dignified than it felt.

Each episode features a problem that is rectified by the episode’s namesake cocktail, which is scribbled on a prescription pad by Dr. Tiki (Macpherson) and “filled” by the bartender Johnny Johnny (Gamble) who explains the construction of the cocktail.

A gamergate is a reproductively viable female worker ant that is able to reproduce with mature males when the colony is lacking a queen.