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1 Month About a Thing is my attempt at 1.) writing every day for 30 days and 2.) writing about something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately for some unknowable reason. The topic is weird and interesting shit hiding in mathematics, logic, and philosophy, written by someone with an amateur’s enthusiasm, a child’s attention span, a cursory education in the field, suspect literacy, and several federal offenses! …Continue reading this entry
DETAILS: I worked at one high school my first year (Fabulously Affluent High School) and another my second year (Slightly-Less Affluent High School). Now, at the beginning of my third year, I’m back at FAHS.
I. My roulette placement awakens my inner class warrior. Not the shifty placement, I mean the high schools themselves. One morning at FAHS, while waiting for a student to arrive by the front entrance, I was watching a TV showing videos made by students. …Continue reading this entry
This started as thoughts on criticism, grew malignantly into a hyperbolic exclamation about the death of rebellion, and then deflated. Now it’s just some thoughts (and maybe prescriptions, because I can’t write without telling people what to do, apparently) regarding GRTM’s critical approach, if there could really be a consensus, or an “us”, or if there’s really any sort of unity at all. …Continue reading this entry
Dear WFM,
I recently lost my job because of the economic crisis, and my wife has since been especially cold to me. I’ve been working hard to find another one, but I think she blames me. At any rate, we haven’t had sex since then. I’m not sure what to do. Help!
–Jobless and Lonely
Well, as the World’s Fattest Man, I spend a lot of time sitting in an expensive, specially made bed to hold my 1200+ lb body, which has long since ceased to be functional. …Continue reading this entry
Webcomics are a difficult phenomenon to get into, not the least because googling “webcomics” turns up a tidal wave of poorly drawn manga and comics that can be described as “adult” solely because they feature naked people. Scraping the surface reveals some material worth showing your friends for a chuckle, but if you’re interested in comics in general, there’s a lot of life to be found online, and usually completely free. …Continue reading this entry
This text woke me up. It came from my boss, sent last week:
“Could you call the classroom and talk to Richard? He’s upset and wants to say goodbye to you. If you call now, he will be crying.”
Last week was the final week of classes at our high school. I missed all but one day of it due to a well-timed flu. …Continue reading this entry
Sheepish apologies to Borges.
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The story of Daniel Hasch’s rise from computer engineer to the wealthiest human being in history is as common as any American myth now. In fact, many of the stories regarding his early career are apocryphal at best, and destructive at worst. His success is attributed to luck bordering on divine intervention, but also, far less reputably, his development of a revolutionary program designed to make market predictions, on which he supposedly spent a significant portion of his wealth keeping hidden. …Continue reading this entry
I first heard about this weird, fairly obscure volume in Scott McCloud’s ingenious book Understanding Comics. At the time, if McCloud said it was good or used it as an example of anything, I wanted to read it, but for some reason it took me a while to get around to this one.
By all accounts, this is a weird book. …Continue reading this entry
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