Friday, September 08, 2006

Schrödinger's cat

I was sitting around wondering whether sending someone a text msg at three in the night would constitute apalling egregiousness. And, well, i came to the conclusion that the situation is sorta like that of schrödinger's cat. I can't really be booked for being apallingly evil unless my msg does wake the person up. Right..?
Schrödinger's cat is not dead.
the 'not' in that line has blink tags. which IE no longer supports. woe is me.. :(

anyhow, do read the side-splittingly funny 'The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem)' by Cecil Adams from The Straight Dope. It made my night.
How sad Is my life.. (to the sound of acerbic laughter)

n.b. : 'I don't hold with cruelty to cats.'

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

the way i see it, if you have to bring in schrodingers cat its any one of the following combinations: sent message/woken person, sent message/person still asleep, unsent msg/sleeping person...and if you consider waking the person=a measure of your 'apalling egregiousness' then in only one of the 3 scenarios do you come across as evil. a bit too literal an analysis of your post but anyway. seems to be little activity on these comment boards nowadays...

Anonymous said...

lovely poem.

was i the cat?

Onyma said...

yes! lol. what gave me away?

Anonymous said...

i guess the cat's out of the bag...

Anonymous said...

going through the flurry of commentary since i last reared my ugly head on this blog, i was left wondering do i even have a favourite flavour of ice cream anymore?! er...i mean ever since the gelatos have hit town it's kinda hard to say...

Anonymous said...

and yeah appleby besides being erwin's cat, you sure are one curious cat...

SaiK said...

... made a nice read .... the poem is rather cool !!! .... google "Schrödinger's Kittens" it makes the subject even more interesting ....