Or at least that’s how I explain the odd pattern of phone calls I’ve been receiving recently, where people fail to leave messages even though I didn’t answer the calls. Some of them have been local, and I am guessing they are wrong numbers. But in the past few weeks I’ve received a series of phone calls from the same number in the 940 area code. It’s a bit spooky, since the caller hasn’t left a message. If you read my blog, understand that I will not<\/b> answer a phone call from that number. If you want to contact me, leave a message or e-mail me! And please be aware that lots of people view repeated phone calls as a type of stalking behavior. In my case, I am not concerned for my safety, but I do not have any social obligation to answer all phone calls. That’s what voicemail is for…<\/p>\n
In related news, someone commented on a post recently in a way that obviously uses the post as an excuse to tout an organization. It’s a nonprofit, but since it looks like the organization hired a media firm to write comments on the same topic across multiple blogs, I’m treating it as comment spam. Zap!<\/p>\n
Finally, my daughter has decided to read Leonard Susskind’s The Black Hole War<\/i> after discovering that it has an Escher drawing as a key metaphor towards the end of the book. She’s upset with the pollywog-and-rocks illustration early on, partly because she’s disappointed that a physicist could have such a poor understanding of biology. (You’ll have to read the book to understand.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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