A ghost is a ghost and about as unreliable a narrator as can be imagined. Even then. Perhaps I make too much of it. The last thing I want to note is the comedy in this most tragic of tragedies. Hamlet’s “madness” is primarily verbal and he takes great delight in word games. ...
where you introduced him, and the current novel,The Puzzle Box. Mike’s a young man who suffered a traumatic brain injury in high school that led to acquired Savant Syndrome, which is a real thing, rare but real. And in Mike’s case, it manifests as making ...
This design was chosen as it was deemed the most time-efficient. Upon successful completion of each task at stations 1 through 4, teams were given a code card. The code cards consisted of a number and a code word that would be utilized for the final escape (station 5). Teams that did...
@lurker – if I am reading them correctly, you’re comments are Anti-Semitic ,and, since you have introduced them in the conversation as a response to mine ones, I feel obliged to call them out as such. In addition, and to make myself crystal clear here, I don’t think for a mo...
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a video—”2 Hours Of Squid To Relax/Study/Work To“—with 2.4 million views. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid, video ...
Now, if you write code that only has recursion via `lfix` and no other function can implicitly or explicitly invoke itself (which the paper refers to as "working in the guarded fragment), your code willnever produce a bottom. You can have whatever sorts of recursive Haskell '98 data defi...
As you form more and more words, a crossword-style grid will fill up, allowing you to finish each level and move on to progressively harder stages. While that may sound stressful, the serene backgrounds will keep you from getting frustrated. Play Word Connect – Words of Nature for free...
All this week we have been obsessed with condensation. As a consequence we now have the cleanest kitchen windows ever. EVER. I go to Paperchase and all their cards and a lot of their goods are 30% off and there’s a week to go before Christmas. I’ve never seen that before. We cr...
and I found leaving it on the phone to be a huge problem–a thousand little paper cuts all during the day that really impacted my ability to get things done. And at the end of the day, that’s what my phone is, a tool to get things done…not use the latest fad app. Except Star...
We discuss the most common confounding variables in the study of bilingualism, aging and dementia, such as group heterogeneity, migration, social factors, differences in general intelligence and the related issue of reverse causality. We describe different ways in which they can be minimised by the...