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Mental Procrastination

Friday, August 20, 2010

OK, I promise, last of these historic posts! The title was inspired by Andrew Braybook’s game diary in ZZAP!64 magazine, which you should immediately read. I wrote this 13 years ago, when I was young and stoopid… Football I went to a football game the other day with a few friends. One of them commented [...]

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Solresol

Monday, August 16, 2010

Another historic article, from the 1990′s. Of course, these days you’d just look it up in Wikepedia, but that didn’t start until 2001. Introduction My fascination with Solresol began when I recently watched “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. My PhD research is focused on Language Processing, and I found the concept of a musical [...]

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The Wall

Friday, August 6, 2010

Yes, yet another re-post of something I wrote over a decade ago. The Wall A Documentary by Jason Hutchens Title shot, ‘The Wall’. Establishing shot (outdoors, in a park somewhere or maybe near the city with views of the skyline). Pan to reveal Jas with a microphone, walking along slowly in a vaguely 60 minutes [...]

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The Marriage Problem

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Another one from the vaults. I wrote this in the late 1990′s: A society consists of equal numbers of males and females. Each female knows all the males and vice versa. Each female has a priority list of the males she would like to marry, and vice versa. The task is to marry them all [...]

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Solving Puzzles, circa 199*

Thursday, July 22, 2010

I had absolutely no sleep at all last night, which is why I spent today in a stupor, content with reading news and pottering about rather than Doing Something Challenging. This explains why I started doing some vanity searches this afternoon, digging up an old web-page of mine from the mid-1990′s. Yes, it used TABLEs [...]

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