The P versus NP problem asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be quickly solved. Hmmm? What if one defines the problem differently. One person makes a point the other person doesn’t get. A situation that repeatedly occurs in Congress and the Supreme Court. Who, Dear Reader, is missing the…
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A Total Eclipse
Turn Around Bright Eyes Turn around bright eyes serves as a warning that love can hurt, like a total eclipse of the sun. On Monday, as the path of the moon travels in front of the sun, a lucky few million will experience a total eclipse. The eclipse will sweep across the United States from…
Going to Hell
War is hell. General William Tecumseh Sherman Now everywhere is war, war. Bob Marley, War War is not healthy for children and other living things. 60s Anti-war poster The World is Going to Hell The news on the television is bad., bad, bad. There is conflict and war everywhere. And it is not getting better….
What do you think?
Hmmm… Hmmm, Oz’s daughter likes to say, “You are what you focus on.” Which, Oz supposes, works well in this multi-faceted world. Meaning, Oz supposes one can be many things to many people. Oz likes to think, “You are what you think” which doesn’t work so well with those who don’t speak, like the philosophy…
On Wisdom
What is Wisdom? Epicurus bequeathed to us writings on many things including Happiness. Advising us, that to find happiness do this: “Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young, nor weary when he has grown old.” Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus, ca. 270 BC Traveling On What is wisdom? Oz asks. Wisdom…
To the Great and Wonderful Wizard of Oz
January 1, 2023 Dear Oz, The last time I saw you, you were sailing away in a hot air balloon meant for me, somewhere over the rainbow, I suppose, but you never made clear where exactly you were going; and why it was any better than an Emerald City and your adoring subjects. Kings abdicate,…
Oz
Down Under in Oz December 27, 2022 Dear Dorothy, Two days after Christmas, I hear it is freezing in Kansas. And worse in New York, in Buffalo, where the extreme cold is creating new words like “cyclone bomb” and “bombogenesis” to describe the weather conditions that have taken too many lives. But here, Down Under,…
Happy Birthday
On the occasion of his birthday, or rather the celebration of it, Oz, the author of this occasionally comical blog, has this to say: Thanks for the many kind thoughts. Mind you, I was assuredly surprised and pleased. I know, I ought to be grateful, I’m not. Becoming seventy, you see, Isn’t as bless’ed as…
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Today is not TomorrowAnd Yesterday is goneToday is all I GotThat is, for Now Now what do you think of that? How do you live your life?Regretting yesterday,Dreaming of tomorrow,Or, Living Each and every Moment As if it were your Last. Oz, the author of this blog about anything and everything, has not much to…
Leaving Oz 