Category Archives: Personal

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

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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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The New Year Brings in Big Change

Last Wednesday I self-installed DSL so, now I am downloading with the best. The following day, prior to departing for his fact finding tour of the ATO, the Baka shipped us some truly scary hardware to work with. Currently our … Continue reading

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