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July Film Roundup 1 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Oh man. As promised last month, July was an epic month of moviewatching, and I decided to try a little epic experiment with this roundup, inspired by the "The Balcony is Closed" game on No More Whoppe...
Loaded Dice 2013 Update 30 Jul 2013 | 01:41 am
I fetched the BoardGameGeek data again, a yearly tradition, and put up another Loaded Dice update. A few highlights: The number of games released each year is holding steady at about 3200. Rating i...
Apo11o ll 21 Jul 2013 | 06:55 am
To celebrate the anniversary of the first moon landing, I packaged up a project I came up with a while back: Apo11o ll, a generative piece that performs Queneau assembly on the Apollo 11 transcripts (...
Reunion 17 Jul 2013 | 09:34 pm
I got a misdirected flyer in the mail inviting Leon Richardson to a high school reunion. Class of 1983. I was not yet in kindergarten in 1983, so I thought I might go and drop hints about the youth se...
Billy Collins, Stand-Up Comic (Bonus: How To Write Poetry) 11 Jul 2013 | 07:02 pm
For reasons that need not concern us, I recently gave some advice on writing poetry. I don't know anything about poetry, but I was able to derive the most basic advice from first principles: "read a w...
Mashteroids 9 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
As my birthday present to you, I present Mashteroids, Queneau assemblies of the IAU citations for minor planets. This showed up briefly on NYCB two years ago, but I've expanded the dataset, improved t...
June Film Roundup 1 Jul 2013 | 06:06 pm
I guess the theme of June was mixing fact and fiction? I dunno why I feel the need to come up with a theme for all the random movies I watched in a month. This thing is long enough as it is. Here you ...
The Interesting Parts 28 Jun 2013 | 11:55 pm
I've wanted to write this post for a long time, so long that the main guy I'm writing about, Iain M. Banks, announced that he had cancer and then died of the cancer. That doesn't really affect what I'...
Sycorax Transcends Your Puny Version Numbers 27 Jun 2013 | 07:37 pm
Last night I'd finally had enough with all of my Twitter bots not working due to sending POST requests to a resource that was 401 Gone. The one I really need to keep going is Frances Daily, and that o...
May Film Roundup 1 Jun 2013 | 07:06 pm
Lots of travel in May, so not many movies this month either. But I do have heterodox opinions for you. Read on! Fahrenheit 451 (1966): Or, "From Truffaut to True Friend." Because I figured out why th...
