User:Meelo Mooses
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| — Wikipedian — | |
| Name | Meelo Mooses |
|---|---|
| Born | Earth |
| Pronouns | 'whom', 'oneself', 'thy', etc... |
| Current location | Earth (I haven't left yet) |
| Race | mile run |
| Height | Somewhere between basketball and ceiling fan |
| Weight | kilograms |
| Hair | Yes |
| Eyes | Two |
| Handedness | chirality (physics) |
| Blood type | Red, White, and Blue |
| Personality type | Introspective |
| Family and friends | |
| Parents | Two |
| Pets | Ants in my pants |
| Education and employment | |
| Occupation | Mathematician + walker |
| Employer | Big Math |
| Hobbies, interests, and beliefs | |
| Movies | Fun to watch |
| Shows | Even more fun to watch |
| Books | Fun to read |
| Music | Deeply important to my lived experience. |
| Contact info | |
| Myspace | add me ;0 |
An important quote to me is this one, by Samuel Beckett:
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"
A few comments:
- I find the word unnecessary to be unnecessary in this quote. It reads better as "Every word is like a stain on silence and nothingness". Stains are obviously bad - we don't want them.
- Google's AI overview about this quote says that it is "often used to express the feeling of words being a disruption to the inherent quietude and emptiness of existence". This is not how I see the quote at all. To me, its about the fact that a good model for language is that every word has some intrinsic negative quality to it. If you can make a sentence shorter and retain its essential features, then you've made a better sentence.
- I apply the spirit of this quote to several aspects of my life. For instance, quasiparticles[1] and worldly posessions.
References
[edit]- ^ "Samuel Beckett's Guide to Particles and Antiparticles". www.ribbonfarm.com. Retrieved 2025-03-27.