Category: Personal
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Rita Gardner Has Been Saved
Advertisements Okay, get ready for a strange, silly, pop-culture-addict, time-traveler-wannabe adventure. Look at this. I LITERALLY WAS JUST THINKING ALONG THESE WEIRD LINES, AND I GOT TO WATCH IT GET LITERALLY WEIRDER, AS IF ON COMMAND. My command. And that’s scary, and I don’t know what to do about it right now except to blog…
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Some Rituals Take Generations to Perform…
Advertisements … and hypnotize millions of human beings (who consider themselves God-fearing).
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A New Resistbot Political Petition, by Me
Advertisements Please click this link if you would like to see and sign my latest petition, “We the People: Outvoted!” to Federal elected officials. Also you can text “” to 50409 to sign it. Also please consider donating to Resistbot. They are not a tax-deductible organization, since they do grassroots lobbying on our behalf, but…
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Integer Factorization: The Gauntlet
Advertisements [userpic:jcsbimp] gets a feeling of determination, nay, almost a feeling of finality [userpic:jcsbimp] thinks of the past year and all he has learned, all the concepts he has developed in this mathematical study: the Ceiling Square, the Remainder, the characteristic polynomial, the Beehive Plot and the Bee Line, the Zone Grid and the Remainder…
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I Am Probably Not the First to Say This, But…
Advertisements Sometimes the mathematics takes me there. Sometimes, I have to get out and push.
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Art Piece Available: “MoonBright”
Advertisements A digitally-processed photograph I took of the bright moon above our forest last night, which I call “MoonBright”, can be yours from Fine Art America. They sell canvas, fine art, and standard prints of “MoonBright,” as well as numerous pieces like pillows and tote bags. Select the kind and size you want from the…
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And now, a message from the odd positive integers, my grandson Keegan, and myself.
Advertisements Part I: I decided simply to graph the values of the (Adjusted) Ceiling Square and its remainder for all of the odd positive non-prime integers I’ve put in my 3D graph so far (1 through 441). The result jumped out at me with its near-symmetry of dots, which appear in the graph below. But…
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Assorted Incorrect Thoughts
Advertisements “You see, I learned something today. Throughout this whole ordeal, we’ve all wanted to show things that we weren’t allowed to show. But it wasn’t because of some magic goo. It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. That’s obviously the only true power. If there’s anything we’ve all learned,…