Driver Classification Index
Have you ever ridden in the car with a friend and noticed that they have a completely different set of names for their fellow drivers than you do, and then gotten frustrated because they’re calling the rude tailgating driver behind them the exact same name …
Read MoreThe Number of Words Project: Six (6)
“Mr. Jackson, come here!” Bryce Williams exclaimed, excitedly. “For the twelfth time It’s DR. Jackson, Williams,” Dr. Jackson admonished as he walked through the doorway. “I can tolerate an undergrad summoning me like a labradoodle, but throw me a frickin’ bone here,” he added, trying …
Read MoreThe Number of Words Project: Three (3)
ACT I This, that, and the other. Then, now, and forever. ACT II The doors on the Price is Right? The number of licks required to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop? The original number of Star Wars trilogies? The number movies it took …
Read MoreThe Number of Words Project: Two (2)
In the lower order, one becomes two. In the higher order, two become one so that one may become greater than two. The union of two sets causes intersection; probability within the intersection causes subset; and time moves subset to set. We call the former …
Read MoreThe Number of Words Project: One (1)
A single mote drifts across the multiverse, moving so slowly that in ten thousand millennium it will have moved no more than a near-infinitesimal fraction of the smallest distance imaginable. If it were to be detected by beings that attempted to catalog such occasions, they …
Read MoreThe Tailgates of Hell
Dear Sir or Madam, To begin, let me point out that I address you as ‘Sir or Madam’ merely because from the vantage point of my rear-view mirror, I can only see one of your vehicle’s headlights and a portion of its grill. I do …
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