Windows lockscreen, 6:08 AM ET, Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2023 —
"Come discover hundreds of new games
that are free to play whenever you want!"
Monday, September 4, 2023
The Dark Corner Continues: Invitation for Gamers
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
Gamers
A search for Gamers in this journal yields …
This is not unrelated to the title of a 2008
book by Jeremy Gray:
Plato's Ghost:
The Modernist Transformation
of Mathematics .
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
Bullshit Studies
The previous post dealt with a symbol of an apparently
admirable "social development environment."
For a less admirable development environment, see a film
described in a July 2014 story from Film New Europe —
"Shooting started in Bucharest on 9 June 2014. . . ."
This journal on 8-9 June 2014 —
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Friday, July 6, 2007
Friday July 6, 2007
Midnight in the Garden
of Good and Evil
continued from
Midsummer Night…
of Good and Evil
continued from
Midsummer Night…
“The voodoo priestess looked across the table at her wealthy client, a man on trial for murder: ‘Now, you know how dead time works. Dead time lasts for one hour– from half an hour before midnight to half an hour after midnight. The half-hour before midnight is for doin’ good. The half-hour after midnight is for doin’ evil….'”
— Glenna Whitley, “Voodoo Justice,”
The New York Times, March 20, 1994
In Other Game News:
“In June, bloggers speculated that the Xbox 360 return problem was getting so severe that the company was running out of ‘coffins,’ or special return-shipping boxes Microsoft provides to gamers with dead consoles. ‘We’ll make sure we have plenty of boxes to go back and forth,’ Bach said in an interview.”
The picture of
“Coxeter Exhuming Geometry”
suggests the following
illustration, based
in part on
Plato’s poem to Aster:
“Coxeter Exhuming Geometry”
suggests the following
illustration, based
in part on
Plato’s poem to Aster:
Related material:
and
The proportions of
the above rectangle
may suggest to some
a coffin; they are
meant to suggest
a monolith.
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