Lift your spirits
There’s a lot to a lift.
If you fancy yourself as a bit of an analytical thinker, go and get a piece of paper and a pencil. Think of a lift you know. It doesn’t matter whether you love it, hate it, or have no particular feelings and just think of it as a means of [...]
Posted at 11pm on 4/10/08 | no comments; | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged: complexity, elevator theory; lifts; analysis; operational research; | read on
Imperfect harmony
(Or why the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic means we shouldn’t get so stressed when big projects go tits-up. A journey via the physics of music, the ingenious Bach, and a whole lot of faking.) Take a string. Tie it tightly between two fixed points. If you have a guitar to hand, even better, but it’s not essential. [...]
Posted at 11pm on 2/29/08 | no comments; | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged: acoustics, complexity, harmony, music theory, paradox, pythagorean comma | read on
