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Aphorisms: it’s raining it’s pouring

Friday, November 6th, 2015

It frequently rains without pouring.

Aphorisms: Do you know?

Thursday, November 5th, 2015

You never know until you try, except sometimes. You can not predict the future with 100% accuracy. But on the other hand, you’ve been around the block a few times; sometimes you can see events before they happen with uncanny precision. People are very predictable, or you know that your snowboarding skill is *well* below […]

Aphorisms: Seeing and Believing

Friday, October 30th, 2015

Seeing is believing, but anecdotal evidence is not real evidence. It’s easy to see things that aren’t there. It’s easy to believe things that aren’t true. The scientific method is formalized distrust of personal experience and experiential evidence in general. If you believe everything you think you see, and if you accept as truth everything […]