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Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory We're going to get to in a long and roundabout way. First I want to talk about the game of Nim. Nim Nim is a very simple game for two players. There are some piles of beans, which are...
Fun stuff happens in this bi-state area!Much of next week and the weekend will have Comic-Con International/San Diego Comic-Con in the news. A lot of folks will be traveling there and enjoying what is (usually) the biggest...
A couple of months ago I did a post about the Guardian’s list of what it deemed to be the 100 best novels of all time. One book on that list was Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo. I’d never heard of it before, and was delighted to receive a...
Attended another sketchwalk session on Saturday. This time I was able to recognize the regulars and strike some conversations, reminding me of the benefits of a physical art community. There's nothing like seeing an artwork up close,...
Calvin Trillin, in the introduction to 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, by Alice Waters:Although I tend to prefer eating in the upstairs café at Chez Panisse rather than in the formal dining room downstairs, I find it...
Pondering arch-mages again, on the lines of 'what do you do when you get total control of reality' - previous I wrote on their goals, the status flexes of individuals beyond want. Now I have been pondering what kind of casual horrors...
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research has often served as a house organ of sorts for the “biopsychosocial” ideological brigades. That’s to be expected, given that folks like Per Fink, Michael Sharpe, and Jon Stone...
Title: Olenka Author: Budi Darma Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages: 320 In Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka...
People used to live hereI went to the beach today and noticed a bunch of weird stuff. I made a small collection of photos with the idea of "a world after humanity". Thinking about the unnaturalness of our own existence and how that...
Read the full post at - Where Do the Children Play? via eli Stark-Elster The biggest misconception about American childhood -> https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-the-children-play I was generally skeptical of the 2020’s...
Voyage of the Marigold, my StarTrek-esque game of commanding a starship on a dangerous mission, is now available on Itch.io. There are no updates to the game itself, and the...
At the Beyond Film exhibition at the Bilker Bunker
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Hello, loves! I’ve decided to commit this and refactor. Can always reset if I have to. General rule: try always to move forward. We’ll begin with some tests for what we have. What do we have? I don’t know, that was hours ago. Here’s just...
When I was in Paris, like, fifteen years ago, I happened past a glassware shop and I saw these dinner plates in the window: That is, out-of-focus night-time surveillance photos. On dinner plates. And I had a sudden vision: A… what’s this...