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• On begging
  December 2011 on Earth, but it is eternal midmorning on the third layer of the Astral Plane. THOMAS OF AQUINO, NICHOLAS FLAMEL, and K'UNG FU-TZU sit at a card table, in th
• On being missed
  I recently visited Seth Godin's Web log to dig out his item about yak shaving, and while I was there I saw this recent posting about being missed . He asks the question: i
• The parable of the tricycle
  Imagine a young man nearing his 16th birthday, the day when he'll be eligible to get a driver's license. And let's imagine this is before graduated licensing was a big thi
• On problems and talking about them
  I don't ever want to care so strongly about my problems that I would - even for a moment - hesitate to accept a solution to them for fear of losing that investment. I also
• On language and the use thereof
  Hatred is not the same thing as fear, not even if they often occur at the same time to the same people. When you pretend that those two things are identical to each other,
• Wisdom of Tvtropes
  I spotted this buried deeply in an otherwise-boring discussion on tvtropes.org, and it has much wider application and deserves much wider distribution. I made a mental not
• Titanic Inquiry Project
  While looking for something else I ended up on the site of the Titanic Inquiry Project , and it's fascinating. The Titanic sank in the Spring of 1912 after colliding with
• In the matter of the lawn-pooping dare
  Expanded from a Twitter tweet, since there are important points here that won't fit in 140 characters. Our text for the day is Achewood, 2010:5:9-24 ( starts here ). Andy
• Status update
  I'm withdrawing from Facebook, and I'm probably not going to renew my paid account on Dreamwidth. This leaves Twitter as the only social-network type of site I expect to u
• Colour, social beings, and undecidability
  Okay, it's been about two months since I posted my piece about colourful bits , and I really should have posted a follow-up before now, but better late than never.  First
• What Colour are your bits?
  There's a classic adventure game called Paranoia which is set in an extremely repressive Utopian futuristic world run by The Computer, who is Your Friend.  Looking at a re

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