tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47796477735776051382012-01-20T14:59:42.837-08:00The blogs, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated posts will open up such terrifying vistas of ignorance, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a private forum. - With apologies to H. P. LovecraftNEBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05832082589817272303noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779647773577605138.post-40322443282682359252011-03-09T16:58:00.000-08:002011-03-09T18:08:45.973-08:00

In the course of my many jobs, I've noted an intriguing mathematico-sociological phenomenon which I've dubbed The Wallet to Entitlement Ratio. Write this down, because it'll soon be textbook material in graduate-level sociology classes.This ratio purports to predict any given customer's attitude relative to the service he expects from you, whether you work as a Starbucks barrista or a high-level

NEBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05832082589817272303noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779647773577605138.post-86874721243058699142011-02-26T15:55:00.000-08:002011-02-26T17:07:10.540-08:00

Over the years, several newlywed couples have approached me with the same question: "Nathan, we're so happy and comfortable with each other. How can we burn our marriage to such a degree of crispness that Hiroshima at Ground Zero will seem like a slightly over-powered tanning salon?"Fortunately, this is not as difficult to achieve as you might imagine. I have personally used the following recipe

NEBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05832082589817272303noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779647773577605138.post-9421727443587557212009-05-05T05:13:00.000-07:002011-02-26T15:38:49.831-08:00

There were geometrical forms for which an Euclid would scarcely find a name - cones of all degrees of irregularity and truncation, terraces of every sort of provocative disproportion, shafts with odd bulbous enlargements, broken columns in curious groups, and five-pointed or five-ridged arrangements of mad grotesqueness.- At the Mountains of Madness, 1936He said that the geometry of the

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In the beginning was the blog, and the blog was called NateNotes, and the blogger was me. And lo, darkness was upon the face of the blog, for it had no readership.And it came to pass that the blog gained a small but steady following after better and more popular blogs noticed it. And it was good.But in the fullness of time, the blogger grew weary of NateNotes, and created a new blog, and called

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