Probability and Dice Wars
There's this Flash game that I play called Dice Wars. It's sort of like a stylized and abstracted version of...
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Google Contributor is an experimental system that allows you to directly financially support websites you visit. If you sign up...
Life updates
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day...
How to enjoy Terminator Genisys
I saw Terminator Genisys last night. Fortunately, Karen prepped me for it ahead of time, so I thought I'd pass...
Marvel’s upcoming diverse comics
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...
Rubik’s Cube instructions
Sometime in the late 1970s, I think, my family sublet a room in our house to a Hungarian math professor...
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
My first encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin's short YA novel Very Far Away from Anywhere Else was in college. My...
Serendipity
It's been a tense week for me, mostly due to work stuff. Today, I tried all day to get myself...
What changed my mind about marriage equality
In early 2004, I was opposed to attempts to legalize same-sex marriage. That's because I was scared of the backlash...
Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Tomorrowland
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story...
Thanks to Matt at Things tech support
I've been using the task-list-management app Things since 2009. It's far from perfect, but it's the only to-do-list software that...