Despair, Dismay, Disorientation, and Delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way.
–Dominique “Mo” O’Brien, The Annihilation Score
Month: September 2016
It’s only clever when I do it
Step 1: apply head to wall violently. Step 2: repeat.
Some conversations with Bean go along those lines.
Specification change
Everybody is so efficient!
And then there’s me:
Follow-up: shortest abstract
As a follow-up to the previous post with the shortest peer-reviewed, published paper – this is the shortest published abstract!
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block”
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The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block” is a humorous academic article by psychologist Dennis Upper about writer’s block. It contains no content outside title and journal formatting elements, including a humorous footnote. Published in 1974 in a peer reviewed journal, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, it is recognized as the shortest academic article ever and a classic example of humour in science. The article has led to at least three similarly humorous and peer-reviewed, published replication studies.
Down the internet rabbit hole!
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The tao of cloud people
Kingfisher rescue squad
Bean and a couple of boys from the building found a kingfisher with a broken wing. We bundled it up in a box and took it to the local bird rescue shelter. Hope it makes it. It has a beautiful plumage.