Like a slug

Slugs make people squeemish. Slugs leave a trail.

Well maybe a slug isn’t the best analogy, but it’s a start. After all you have to start somewhere, or else everywhere. That is assuming that things have been started. If things haven’t started I guess the start would be nowhere.

I was reading this fantastic introduction to Minkowski geometry where it talks about Alice in wonderland and her conversation on the beach. She debates about right angles and the sum of the squares bla bla, rather then the difference of the squares in Minkowski geometry. The tortoise (I think it was a tortoise) though she was crazy, as it lived in Minkowski space.

’tis my birthday tomorrow. It’s going to be an odd day. I’m certainly not going to give any massages tomorrow. In fact I don’t think I’m very good at them anyway. As long as the massagee feels relaxed afterwards though it can’t have been too bad.