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Category Archives: Personal
Upholstery!
I live in a dense neighborhood and not a month goes by where I don’t see an old couch, an old mattress, an old futon or an old stuff chair sitting out in the street. This bugs me. Isn’t there … Continue reading
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When Consumer Society Went Wrong
Today, I fixed my old Emerson Electric desk fan. This monster was built back in the nineteen-forties or the nineteen thirties and it really shows–solid steel everywhere and everything is designed to be taken apart and reassembled. It could probably … Continue reading
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The Penny is Garbage Money!
I hate that jar of pennies I have. I hate having to pack pennies into little rolls to take to the bank. I have a little pocket on my equipment vest just for pennies and other useless change and, I … Continue reading
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A revised list of things that I am interested in
Cartooning. I know I am too old to start a career in cartooning. Creating an compelling RPG background. Again, perhaps as 40 year-old single man, this might be highly suspect but there it is. I have the spare time–sort of. … Continue reading
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A 1000 Hours of AOL Free!
Despite the fact that AOL/TW knows they’ve saturated the US market and have got all the customers they’re gonna get here, they still keep sending out those stupid disks. Just today I got the AOL 7 disk, unsolicited, in the … Continue reading
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Factory Floor is One Year and Three Days Old
I guess I should mark this occasion: One year of using the Greymatter script. Before, Factory Floor was just a vague way of referring to the site’s root page without saying, “home page.” Before, Factory Floor was just a site … Continue reading
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Pre-Colonial, Sub-Saharan African History
A few days ago, Ms. Carlysle pointed me in the direction of some interesting historical scholarship namely, helping Steve Jackson Games to compile a GURPs source book on the pre-colonial history of the kingdoms and nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. It’s … Continue reading
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Game Theory and Philosophy
Inspired by the Dead Kennedys stuff cited below, I did some searching on things related to Jello Biafra and came across some local folks dedicated to the idea that life is a game. It’s weird how the Web thinks these … Continue reading
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More Game Theory
Some interesting game links this month: The Settlers of Catan, a game which I’ve never played, apparently has inspired this bit of mathematical analysis about avoiding agressive moves early in the game. Nature magazine published an article about game theoretical … Continue reading
One of the Few Holidays I Care About
In the same month I was born, he gave that speech. We still have a long way to go in meeting the ideals and examples, he and Malcolm proclaimed. That’s why this holiday is necessary; it reminds us of how … Continue reading
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