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Month: June 2013

Equality!

June 30, 2013Mike Schilling 22 Comments

A field, in abstract algebra, is a system where: Addition works the way you expect. Multiplication also works the way you expect. Multiplication distriutes over addition We can make this more precise.

recreational mathematics

Sunday!

June 30, 2013Jaybird 53 Comments

Taken 2: Don’t see it. Just watch Taken again. Or go watch Man on Fire. It’s not *BAD*… you’ll just turn it off and say “I wish I had just watched the first one again instead.” And then you’ll start… Continue Reading →

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Logic!

June 30, 2013Mike Schilling 26 Comments

Here, once again, is the question: Three perfect logicians, A, B, and C, sit around a circular table. There is a set of stamps, four red and four green. Each logician has had two stamps pasted on his forehead; he… Continue Reading →

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Philomathy!

June 29, 2013Mike Schilling 21 Comments

Professor Phil O’Mathy and two of his colleagues, all savants in mathematical logic, went down to the local pub. A waitress came over to their table and asked “Do you all want a beer?” “I don’t know”, replied the first… Continue Reading →

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Saturday!

June 29, 2013Jaybird 6 Comments

Magic 2014 is out and they’ve brought back splinters. The Goblin/Kobold deck for people who hate Goblins/Kobolds. (I dislike how few decks this version comes with but I haven’t played the “sealed deck” portion which, I understand, is the selling… Continue Reading →

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Live!

June 29, 2013Glyph 17 Comments

FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS! I don’t get out to see live music as often as I used to; children are wonderful, as well as exceedingly time-, energy-, and money-consuming. But live performance is where a song breathes. So we’ll do a… Continue Reading →

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Somnology!

June 28, 2013Jaybird 6 Comments

The stories continue and, this next time, Katherine will be breaking down Hob’s Leviathan and Reformed Republican will give us The Golden Boy. (If you absolutely positively have to talk about some major spoiler in comments, please rot13.) It has… Continue Reading →

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Weekend!

June 28, 2013Jaybird 50 Comments

Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already? Indeed it is. Well, I’m batchin’ it this weekend. Maribou is off galavanting with her lye-berry friends this weekend and I am Home Alone… and we specially set up last weekend so that the… Continue Reading →

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Somniloquy!

June 27, 2013Jaybird 30 Comments

Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, That, if requiring fail, he will compel.    -Henry V We’re kicking off Book 8, World’s End, with a storm a’brewin. Jason Tank will be handling… Continue Reading →

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Memory!

June 26, 2013Glyph 15 Comments

If the internet is something like the collective unconscious instantiated in electrons and pixels, then YouTube may represent our shared dreamtime; it sometimes seems like all of humanity’s memories, flights of fancy and weird rhyming synchronicities are on-tap there for… Continue Reading →

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