First, I should apologize. The seventh MLP puzzle I was promising hasn't been finished, and it won't be finished for some time yet. But I do have something to show today.

Alexandre Muñiz posted some combinatorial musings on the World Cup recently, and I had a stab at the main posed problem. Figured out some shortcuts, but it's quite combinatorially ( Read more... )

One of the things I've distracted myself with recently is FiMFiction.net. I don't consider myself a brony, despite how much I follow the fandom, because I don't actually watch the show. It took me a while to call myself furry, but that doesn't have nearly such a clear cut-off.
Anyway, I want to tangent off that. One of the fics I saw was "Spike's ( Read more... )

I've been getting back to reading proper paper books lately. I'm reading some Borges that I picked up from the library while I was looking for Asprin. (I was looking for "MYTH Inc. Link," but I'm hopeful "Dragons Wild" will be a good read.) I picked up this book, "Ficciones," first because it stood out as being small and battered, and second ( Read more... )

Last week, my brother bought Fallout: New Vegas for his Xbox. I saw him playing it while I was rushing into the house to get a list, so I didn't sit and watch. And thus it was only several hours later that I remembered he had sold his Xbox several months ago. Bit of fridge logic there. (The simple, correct explanation is he got a new one.)
What ( Read more... )

Well, look at that! It seems that with this post, I will hit triple digits. To celebrate this, I've decided to change my journal's theme.

Hmm, I have terrible taste in style, don't I?

Anyway, I've also added a tag cloud, which should make navigation much easier, and changed the blurb to something less timid.

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It occurred to me on playing Pwong that a sufficiently hampered processor might be able to simulate quantum tunneling. Consider: a physical computer can only simulate a small proportion of the known universe's 10^33 particles, and then at a fraction of the pace. Pwong sometimes has twenty or more particles onscreen moving at a nice clip, including ( Read more... )

There's a recent abstract shooter called Sixty that takes exactly one minute to play-- at least, one minute each time. I'm addicted to it, partly because it's difficult to get a non-insult ranking, and partly because a list of rankings-- this list of rankings-- doesn't appear anywhere on The Web According to Google. So as part of a writing-for- ( Read more... )

If you're specifically looking for Nucleus, it's probably two entries below. It's annoying, but I'll have to keep redirecting (nonexistent) visitors until Ed edits his entry. (Since I don't want to edit this later, I'll allow that this might have happened.)
I don't generally play video games except for fighters (Super Smash Bros.), and it's not ( Read more... )

If you're looking for Nucleus, it's in the entry chronologically previous to this, which makes it the one below this nine times out of ten. I asked Ed to change the link on his site, but I guess he hasn't checked his mail yet. For now, I'll talk about TV and puzzles in about that order.
I haven't been keeping up with Heroes and Chuck, partly because ( Read more... )

I turned 21 yesterday, and it was a good birthday. I had a nice dinner with family and friends, and I got just about everything I asked for. I guess that's a good reason for an update.

Now, the third Jay is Games game design competition had some interesting "replay" games, and I got addicted to Gimme Friction Baby, getting a high score of 22. But I ( Read more... )