play, sleep, color

"Language is one of the best data-compression mechanisms we have. The information contained in literature, or even email, encodes our identity as human beings. The entire literary canon may be smaller than what comes out of particle accelerators or models of the human brain, but the meaning coded into words can't be measured in bytes. It's deeply compressed. Twelve words from Voltaire can hold a lifetime of experience," says Martin Wattenberg in an article you can read on Wired. 

it's really interesting and has another one of those beautiful visualizations. apparently this is the week of the cool visualizations.

my post will be compressed today because we're off to the airport. i'm putting my 7-year-old on a plane to chicago, where she will be met by her aunt and a couple of hours later, i get on a plane to oslo. i wasn't nervous when i bought her ticket a month or so ago, but i'm pretty nervous now. she, on the other hand, isn't nervous at all, only excited. she announced this morning that it would be easy peasy to spend those 7.5-8 hours on the plane, she would simply "play, sleep, color" her way through it.

it could be a life philosophy we could all learn from.