It's been a while! I was actually a little too busy with work straight through December, since it all caught up with me as I was developing it. Then personal stuff happened at that time, with only a little break in January before continuing until about mid-March. I spent most of March catching up, but I'm in an okay spot now where I'm at least ( Read more... )

The Witness is 77% off on Good Old Games!
I've mentioned it before. Jonathan Blow puts a lot of thought into his work, and they always come out as art pieces. I'd hang The Witness on my wall if I could. It's certainly hanging in my brain.

It looks like they've also got Bastion, Transistor, Inside, Limbo, and Risk of Rain for cheap. I recommend ( Read more... )

From Wikipedia:

The Bogardus social distance scale is a psychological testing scale created by Emory S. Bogardus to empirically measure people's willingness to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with members of diverse social groups, such as racial and ethnic groups ( Read more... )

Viral EtymologyI'm reading up on the name of the new virus. "New virus" was just about all they could decide on when scientists first found out about it. They quickly determined that it was a coronavirus, so named because it apparently resembles a crown. Coronaviruses are one of the causes of common colds, different from influenza. So they called ( Read more... )

Every time someone says 'normalized', I die a little inside. To figure out why, I spent an hour with Wiktionary searching up etymology in Latin roots and also thinking about how we use some similar words ( Read more... )

It turns out Enya's hit single "Orinoco Flow", which before today I knew as "that one where she's like 'sail away, sail away, sail away'", was released in 1988. I don't think I even heard it until sometime in the early 2000s. I'm thinking back to the music of my childhood, and it was basically all generic radio stuff. I'm kind of annoyed that we ( Read more... )

I've been keeping up with my journals from five years ago, but I've realized I'm going through a lot of memories about 2007, which was ten years ago. It was only suitable, then, that I should dig through my archives for a copy of my 2007 posts. Wow, my writing style has changed. If you'd call that a style, I mean. I don't know if I was just sort of ( Read more... )

Ooh, there's an eclipse on August 21st. It'll be visible across most of the U.S., as it cuts straight through the middle. Here in Winnipeg, it looks like we'll see a 70% cover at 12:57pm. (17:57 UTC).https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/

Hey guys, look at the new Xiaomi Mi MIX:
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