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Here’s an imitation of a pseudomathematician’s rant about the use of the symbol 0 (zero).
Say it with me: The wheel has turned once more. 2023 feels like a zillion years ago. That’s what I get for having the brain of an old-growth redwood. According to tradition, New Year, Old Year is how I revisit the titles that I declared...
Koshary's kittens have all scurried off to explore the world save for Tiger. Curious, because he was the most avoidant out of the lot. Now all of a sudden he's become an immensely affectionate little slut. Amsterdam-based graphic...
A braid group calculation showing the inverse relationship between Milky Way and Flock of Birds.
I recently read a transcript in Paul Graham’s blog of a talk by Richard Hamming on March 1986 at Bellcore. The talk is titled “You and Your Research.” Hamming was a mathematician who in his lifetime made several field-changing...
If you have ever clicked the little ← and → arrows on a member’s site, you have used the plumbing that ties Static.Quest together. Those links are how a web ring works: every site points to the next and previous member, and visitors can...
These are always fun to do, like a reverse wish list of things you haven’t done yet but, might be tempted to do at some future point. Or, maybe not. Never have I ever: Ridden on a camel in the desert Smoked pot/ganga/weed Drunk a gin and...
English actor Jack Huston will be starring in the upcoming Treasure Island, so I thought it
Modern apocrypha are fun! You know the sort of thing – things like the Archko Volume, or the Aquarian Gospel, or any one of a hundred or a thousand similar items. They’re all modern, they’re all fake, and they all proceed by claiming a...
Sometimes I write to exorcise unpleasant emotions, and this is one of those times. What I will write about is an experience that neither Oprah nor Dr. Phil have created a catchy piece of jargon to identify. It is about the feeling of...
I am convinced of one thing.The mind is the greatest obstacle. I know this. I know this because I have lost before I started and I have quit before I’ve tried.I am not the only one who has lost this way.Not at all, but at the moment, I...
[1967]Roll up roll up for some teenbeat moody and broody garage from Holland Michigan group The New Era. This killer sunshine pop smash has got all the irresistible jangly guitars and hook laden sweetness you could want from an ace 60s...
And as the Sleep of Ages came upon them, they placed a great burden of trust upon the greatest and most loyal among their servants. Nor did the Earthbound Demons fail them. Upon the borders of their vast caverns, they raised a Vault that...
Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy. The Frankish Kingdom had a long history with lots of shifts in power. We should take a serious look at the history of the Franks,...
I never thought I'd be the sort of person who didn't look forward to their birthday. The very notion of this would have seemed laughable to my younger self. I was always excited by the prospect of growing another year older and marking...