Category Archives: Jack Handy

Please consider three quotes: Adam Smith: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard of their own interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity, … Continue reading →

Editorial note: If you’re wondering about the Minesweeper project, an update is coming on Friday. We’re in the implementation phase, so I’m going to do a single large update to the project then, instead of doing two smaller ones today … Continue reading →

Ebert’s gone and shot his mouth off again, opining that “no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium [of video games] as an art form”. He repeats his statement that: “No one in or out … Continue reading →

A few days ago, Seth Godin wrote this piece, in which he discusses a proposed “soda tax” in New York: If I worked at Pepsi, I’d be actively lobbying for the obesity sweet soda tax (a penny an ounce) being … Continue reading →

Berkeley in the Sixties The Big Sleep Camille Chungking Express Ed Wood Enigma The Fall High Noon The Killing The Last Days of Disco Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Mulholland Dr. Mulholland Falls Othello Richard III Russian Ark The Shining Sunset … Continue reading →

If you like Calcudoku puzzles (i.e. Sudoku plus math), you might enjoy Patrick Min’s site. It’s updated with new puzzles regularly, and includes some interesting variants, such as multicell division and subtraction, modulo operators, 10×10 and larger puzzles. Incidentally, my … Continue reading →

Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” is a really good movie. It’s easy to overlook: It’s a period piece, leisurely paced, and the titular protagonist is feckless at best. The more I look at it, however, the more I like it. For … Continue reading →

Ultimately, who you are is determined not by what you might do, or what you’d like to do, or what you would do in some hypothetical; it’s determined by what you do in the situations life actually throws your way. … Continue reading →

When you want to find out something about a subject, you’re generally in search of exactly one of the two different types of resources: Explanations, which describe the subject for an audience that is assumed to be unfamiliar with the … Continue reading →