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Copied From Facebook: My Painting Dream
Advertisements I had a remarkable dream last night, the kind I have only every so often and enjoy writing down and, yes, sharing. It was fairly realistic and was close enough to real life that it was just that much more immersive. I was as I am now, age and all, and I had somehow […]
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Hairy Math Stuff (my number study, April 2022)
Advertisements Let positive integer m = p*q where p, q are prime numbers and p is not equal to q. Let s be the smallest positive integer such that s^2 > m, and let r be the difference between them so that: m = s^2 – r. Consider x^2 – r to be a quadratic […]
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In Defense of “Unscientific” Thinking and In Challenge of a Probabilistic Universe
Advertisements Reality has surprises in store for Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Independents. It will baffle and astound atheists, agnostics, and devout fundamentalists of all faiths. Strangenesses of particular existence will lead males, females, blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, Creole Haitian mulattoes, and even Irishmen to take what they thought they knew and cry in despair because […]
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A Long-Awaited Post (at the very least, I made it wait a while)
Advertisements Frater Atzo on Speeding The rate of speed at which I travel on the highway is a matter of personal attentiveness and practice. I don’t ask or expect anybody else to do it, or to buy into it. But essentially, I stick to the posted speed limit like glue. If on a major highway, […]
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Fuck it. We’ll Never Get It Right. I’ll Never Get It Right.
Advertisements It’s a bit of a downer, philosophically. Now, mind you, my mood isn’t really down. For reasons probably easily guessed, I woke up this morning in a state of ebullience that has pretty much lasted all day. And the work week has been wondrously productive. My boss and coworkers couldn’t be happier. But then […]
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Self, No-Self, Viral Ideas, and the Melding Plague
Advertisements Award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds wrote at least two novels about a distant possible future, “Revelation Space” and “Chasm City,” in which he describes, among the elements of his novels’ universe, a disease called the Melding Plague. A strange mixture of biology, cybernetics, chemistry and software, it is a viral disease that infects […]
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You need us! AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT!
Advertisements Some of the people on my LiveJournal flist might remember me posting there about ads run on WTOP by some organization of the petroleum lobby, advising us not to let our legislators take us “back to the seventies” with “outdated” plans to increase taxes on oil and natural gas companies. I challenged the claim […]
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Faith, Magick, What God Wants, and Nothingness
Advertisements Why should I ask God for what I want? Okay, okay, Jesus did so, in at least one case, but that was a literally life-or-death situation. It’s instinctual to say “Pleeeeease?” when facing a command from Heavenly Central to walk into the arms of the Reaper. No, really, I’m wondering about this. If I’m […]
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Initial Feeling-Outy-Type Thingy
Advertisements Hello, WordPress blog world. It’s just me. Some of you might know who I am from elsewhere. To the rest of you, Peace.
JCSBimp's Hexagonal Orthogonal
BEWARE: There Be Fearfful Symmetries Here!
