Dirtside's Journal: Godel, Escher, Bach

It's late and I'm lazy, so here's a plug for an excellent science-math-music-art-everything book: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. It's a brilliant book, touching on numerous concepts. Very, very geek-oriented.

On a totally different topic, I do like the theory that the reason that executive types tend to be such dolts is that the ties they wear cut off the blood flow to their brains.