Lucy is lying on the couch. I reach down and grab her nose, showing her my thumb poking through the first two fingers of a fist: "I've got your nose." She looks at me

As my wife is sleeping, I open up her head and look inside. It's a mess. There are half-finished thoughts laying around all over the place- some discarded, some set aside, disparate ideas are thrown together,

I am coming home from work. A wrinkled old lady sits with a small basket of apples on the side of the road amidst a pile of empty and bundled cardboard boxes. She is selling the apples, the

I am walking to work along a back street. I wear a sharp checked shirt under a V-necked sweater, and a dark jacket. I am wearing earphones connected to the rock-box in my pocket. I strike quite a

Movie theatres in Korea are expensive enough, but some of them have this neat thing where they show movies early in the morning for about 5 bucks. I am up early, and I think that perhaps I can

I have just eaten breakfast, and am sitting in my little glass box working on a survey on the complexity of CSP. My mother-in-law comes in and asks: MIL: Would you like to eat? Me: No thank-you. I&

I Skype God. Me: Hey God. God: Hey Mark, good to hear from you. Me: You too. How's the weather in Prague these days. God: Nice and hot. I'm not in Prague right now

I go for a run. It's another long one, 16 km, and I stop for a quick toilet at kilo 14. Unfortunately, there is no toilet paper, and the bit I brought along in my pocket