A spacesuit that just gets bigger and bigger and bigger after you put it on. At first you are sort of seduced by the power it gives you to act upon the actual universe, what with […]
My child is blessed to be born near the fall equinox, and so I found myself lying in the basket swing of his new swingset (a birthday present) yesterday morning, enjoying the first cool whether of […]
Typically, I write my scientific reports in Latex. A makefile orchestrates all my analysis in stages, and some steps produce latex fragments that appear in the final document. A typical step reads the previous steps’s appropriate […]
A few nights ago I dreamed that I was standing on the edge of a giant sunken waterway, some kind of vast floodwater system in which six inches or so of water flowed at a good […]
A Cafe I visit routinely on my morning commute exploded yesterday. We also took pictures of a black hole for the first time. My son used his potty for the first time. Feeling slightly overwhelmed by […]
I had a kid a year and a half ago. Because I’m a physicist, people bought me “physics for babies” books. We’ve got two: General Relativity for Babies and Quantum Mechanics for Babies. To be totally […]
I spend a fair amount of time on the Keith Burgun Games Discord, which is a community built up around Keith Burgun’s game design theory work. He’s interested, I would say, in designing so-called evergreen strategy […]
A few weeks ago I attended the Rutgers/Columbia Symposium on the Metaphysics of Quantum Field Theory. This morning in the shower a few things I’ve been thinking about snapped into place relating to that conference and […]
I’ve got an eight month old. Watching a baby come to terms with the world can teach you a lot of things. For instance, and as a kind of hors d’oevre, consider the word “shush.” To […]
When I think about whats wrong with the world, I often return to the image of a dead dog on the highway I drive to work every morning. I say dog, but it’s probably a […]