Ceci n’est pas une pipe: a July 4th reflection
typed for your pleasure on 4 July 2009, at 11.00 amSdtrk: ‘Buggy whip flings’ by The Hafler trio
When you see the above photo, what do you believe you’re looking at? A flag, right? But if you consider for a moment, you’re not seeing a flag, you’re looking at a flag of a flag — a flag with an image of the flag of the United States on it. Furthermore, you’re actually staring at a picture of a flag of a flag, not the flag of a flag itself. And to add a final layer, the above image isn’t even the original one I took with my phone; it’s a screenshot that I made when I was cropping and resizing it. So in essence, this is a picture of a picture of a flag of a flag.
Literal interpretation meets limited recursion. Whoever came up with the series of ‘YO DAWG I HERD U LIKE‘ Xzibit jokes has this to thank
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July 6th, 2009 at 2.39 pm
Plato would be proud. Weirdo.
July 7th, 2009 at 1.43 pm
Weirdo? Who, me or Plato?
And are you referring to the Greek philosopher, or to the actress who played Kimberly Drummond on ‘Diff’rent strokes’? Gotta be specific, here.