Archive for May 2019

The Story Of The Grumpy Fish

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Once upon a time, there was a fish who hated the sea. Everywhere he looked, all he SAW was sea. He did not like the sea, but it is all that he saw. The fish saw the sea, and said,… Read more…

Deaths In The Halls Of “Higher” Education

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The old maxim, “Know your enemy”, falls flat when the act of learning casts suspicion on the student. I studied Japanese and Arabic, two cultural groups with low prestige that come under suspicion by cons in the US, and found… Read more…

The Devil Is In The Details

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Up late, burning the midnight oil, and running math calculations on my smartphone while comparing the website character profiles to the in-game stat sheets. Forum Post Original Post: 2 hours ago (Edited) Blizzard Character Stat Sheet My season 16 necromancer,… Read more…

Movie Science: Avengers: Endgame

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Spoiler warning: When the heroes in Avengers: Endgame time travel, they shrink and move really fast. This is possible with Pim Particles, which I don’t know anything about, but the time travel part is right on the nose. The shrinkage… Read more…

The Inescapability of Escape

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The road is living, cobbled from death, and animated. It has always been older than the oldest memory I have. It feeds on travelers, upon their confinement within the mazes of its form, and grows. Transit, and all of its… Read more…

A Comment On Comments

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We are currently using Disqus to provide comments on our site. In the spirit of openness, here’s what Disqus has to say about the comment systems data collection systems: ” We strive to make the Disqus experience as personalized and… Read more…