Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Thursday, 18 April 2002

# 1:30 PM

man-eating snails, snail-eating men

I had a dream in which I was expected to eat live albino snails. Except the snails might eat me first. They were the normal snail size, but secreted a paralytic toxin. One of them began eating my left hand and I couldn't get it off.

There was also a scene in which I was trying to load stuff onto a truck with the assistance of a bunch of anthropomorphic lizards. The lizards kept trying to steal stuff while my back was turned; they had sabotaged the lock on the truck's cargo door. This was culturally expected and I had to keep complimenting them on their cleverness while stopping them.

educational experiments

This website documents experiments in making computers available to minimally educated children. They call it "minimally invasive education."