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2010 366

December 2010

  1. Response to “A Mathematician’s Lament”
  2. Candies all the way down
  3. Candy button musical space
  4. Counterpoint
  5. Rainbow fugue machine
  6. Chasing rainbows
  7. Musical candy buttons, revisited
  8. Evolved virtual keyboards
  9. Candy colored musical computer keyboard
  10. Chromatic scale
  11. That one serious role
  12. Human cheese
  13. Skylark
  14. Objectivity
  15. Closing the loop
  16. Killer app
  17. Virtual reality
  18. Primary colors
  19. Better butterfly
  20. Printing a snowflake
  21. Fractal decorations
  22. Reader annotated
  23. Candy buttons musical palindrome machine
  24. The American version
  25. First birthday you’ve missed
  26. Journeys in dreams are never finished
  27. Two levels down
  28. Intermezzo
  29. Research clients
  30. Writers and readers
  31. Eccescopy, part 21
  32. No math

November 2010

  1. Eccescopy, part 20
  2. Gallows humor
  3. Eccescopy, part 19
  4. Vampires
  5. Eccescopy, part 18
  6. Something to be thankful for
  7. Eccescopy, part 17
  8. Dead today
  9. Eccescopy, part 16
  10. Cycle of broken culture
  11. Eccescopy, part 15
  12. Volcanoes
  13. Eccescopy, part 14
  14. Requiem
  15. Eccescopy, part 13
  16. Dundee
  17. Eccescopy, part 12
  18. BBC
  19. Eccescopy, part 11
  20. When you live in New York City
  21. Eccescopy, part 10
  22. Meta-art
  23. Eccescopy, part 9
  24. Writer/Director
  25. Eccescopy, part 8
  26. Dinner party
  27. Eccescopy, part 7
  28. At six
  29. Eccescopy, part 6
  30. Halloween in Greenwich Village

October 2010

  1. Eccescopy, part 5
  2. Dating advice
  3. Eccescopy, part 4
  4. Eccescopy, part 3
  5. Eccescopy, part 2
  6. Eccescopy, part 1
  7. Beyond computer screens
  8. The inverse law of New York City
  9. Song in my head
  10. Letters to Japan
  11. Is email the new TV?
  12. Two flowers
  13. The draw of the marketplace
  14. Perspective
  15. Mind share
  16. Reincarnation
  17. Attic, part 91
  18. Mentor
  19. Attic, part 90
  20. Paladino: Jews are not equal
  21. Attic, part 89
  22. Today would have been his birthday
  23. Attic, part 88
  24. Jaron’s wager
  25. Attic, part 87
  26. The hungry night
  27. Attic, part 86
  28. Make it so
  29. Attic, part 85
  30. Programming in Twitter
  31. Attic, part 84

September 2010

  1. Possibly a sound idea
  2. Attic, part 83
  3. Original thinking
  4. Attic, part 82
  5. Brain hacking
  6. Attic, part 81
  7. Automatic transmission
  8. Attic, part 80
  9. Morning and evening
  10. Attic, part 79
  11. Tomorrow’s newspaper
  12. Attic, part 78
  13. Tim Herrera, ace reporter
  14. Attic, part 77
  15. The ship
  16. Attic, part 76
  17. The nature of beauty
  18. Attic, part 75
  19. Jujitsu
  20. Attic, part 74
  21. Metaphor as a prophylactic for the id
  22. Attic, part 73
  23. Pogo was right
  24. Attic, part 72
  25. I miss you. Why do you have to be such a nightmare?
  26. Attic, part 71
  27. Obvious
  28. Attic, part 70
  29. It’s in the blood
  30. Attic, part 69

August 2010

  1. History 2
  2. Attic, part 68
  3. The world in which you were born
  4. Attic, part 67
  5. Drama Mouse
  6. Attic, part 66
  7. Animation as live theatre
  8. Attic, part 65
  9. Aunt Sylvia
  10. Attic, part 64
  11. Post mortem post
  12. Attic, part 63
  13. Artist/Scientist
  14. Attic, part 62
  15. Invasion of the borg
  16. Attic, part 61
  17. Going in circles
  18. Attic, part 60
  19. Another dimension
  20. Attic, part 59
  21. Rounding the corner
  22. Attic, part 58
  23. The tragedy of hi-tech consumerism
  24. Attic, part 57
  25. iTrust
  26. Attic, part 56
  27. Reinception
  28. Attic, part 55
  29. Through the eyes of another
  30. Attic, part 54
  31. Riding dragons

July 2010

  1. Attic, part 53
  2. When walls have eyes
  3. Attic, part 52
  4. Worlds of tomorrow
  5. Attic, part 51
  6. Sailing
  7. Attic, part 50
  8. Smith grade coffee
  9. Attic, part 49
  10. The last frontier
  11. Attic, part 48
  12. As sculpture is to photography
  13. Attic, part 47
  14. Feeling sorry
  15. Attic, part 46
  16. Pop culture forever
  17. Attic, part 45
  18. Pure thought
  19. Attic, part 44
  20. Second experiment
  21. Attic, part 43
  22. Well, this changes everything
  23. Attic, part 42
  24. Change of scenery
  25. Attic, part 41
  26. Independence day
  27. Attic, part 40
  28. Synthesis
  29. Attic, part 39
  30. The tragedy of MIDI

June 2010

  1. Attic, part 38
  2. Immortal
  3. Attic, part 37
  4. When reasonable people disagree
  5. Two at fifty
  6. Hypocrisy
  7. Paris in the evening
  8. Wagging the dog
  9. World cup
  10. G.I. Jane Eyre
  11. Father’s Day at 100
  12. Shadows of the moon
  13. Word
  14. Ageless
  15. Rejoycing
  16. Pun play
  17. Trees 3
  18. Trees 2
  19. Trees
  20. Beset
  21. Attic, part 36
  22. Two paths
  23. Attic, part 35
  24. Arnold Schoenberg and Lily Allen
  25. Attic, part 34
  26. Velocipedia
  27. Attic, part 33
  28. Gender specific wish fulfillment
  29. Attic, part 32
  30. Mountain
  31. Attic, part 31

May 2010

  1. Fake journalism
  2. Attic, part 30
  3. Elmo with broccoli
  4. Attic, part 29
  5. ten dollar computer
  6. Attic, part 28
  7. Martin Gardner
  8. Attic, part 27
  9. A few questions
  10. Attic, part 26
  11. The inconstant house
  12. Attic, part 25
  13. Interactive tragedy
  14. Subversion clock
  15. Retrospective
  16. Mix tape
  17. COW
  18. V versus Glee
  19. Comedy and tragedy
  20. Personality and the dream
  21. Movies will merge with animation
  22. Mother’s day
  23. Making movies in the future
  24. Digital makeup
  25. 12 Monkeys
  26. Shelf life
  27. Six limbs
  28. Revelation
  29. Mayday
  30. May day
  31. Attic, part 24

April 2010

  1. Gift giving
  2. Attic, part 23
  3. Conservation of misery
  4. Attic, part 22
  5. Berlin
  6. Attic, part 21
  7. Delighted
  8. Attic, part 20
  9. On faith
  10. Attic, part 19
  11. When life was simple
  12. Attic, part 18
  13. Antony Flew
  14. Attic, part 17
  15. A living moment, revisited
  16. Attic, part 16
  17. Being a button
  18. Attic, part 15
  19. People people left left.
  20. Attic, part 14
  21. This could be a novel idea.
  22. Attic, part 13
  23. Five important people
  24. Attic, part 12
  25. The iPad is paper
  26. Attic, part 11
  27. Getting to know your robot
  28. Attic, part 10
  29. Inverse forensic science
  30. Attic, part 9

March 2010

  1. Memory game, even more twisted
  2. Attic, part 8
  3. Memory game, with a twist
  4. Attic, part 7
  5. Vignetting
  6. Attic, part 6
  7. Where it all started
  8. Attic, part 5
  9. Dance Dance
  10. Attic, part 4
  11. Variety
  12. Attic, part 3
  13. Attic, part 2
  14. Attic, part 1
  15. Superheroes, revisited
  16. The power of invisibility
  17. There are questions here…
  18. Story behind the story
  19. Where’s my self-balancing iPhone?
  20. Research
  21. After the talk
  22. A New Yorker in San Francisco
  23. Without a passport
  24. Presence and telepresence
  25. Up in the air
  26. The Wizard of Oz as upgrade narrative
  27. Patterns
  28. You are not my heart
  29. Serious games
  30. Community

February 2010

  1. World of Goop
  2. Dreams
  3. Faces, continued
  4. There’s a face for that
  5. Robots in your house
  6. Expository writing
  7. Motivation
  8. The legend of Jake (complete)
  9. Delicious
  10. The legend of Jake, Canto the third. Verse 4:
  11. Liberal arts
  12. The legend of Jake, Canto the third. Verse 3:
  13. Look who’s talking
  14. The legend of Jake. Canto the third, verse 2:
  15. Peacock feathers
  16. The legend of Jake. Canto the third, verse 1:
  17. Buzz kill
  18. The legend of Jake. Canto the second, part 4:
  19. People are not cats
  20. The legend of Jake. Canto the second, verse 3:
  21. Compensation
  22. The legend of Jake. Canto the second, verse 2:
  23. Forever font, continued
  24. The legend of Jake. Canto the second, verse 1:
  25. Forever font
  26. The legend of Jake. Canto the first, verse four:
  27. Robot god
  28. The legend of Jake. Canto the first, verse three:
  29. Personality

January 2010

  1. The legend of Jake. Canto the first, verse two:
  2. The hero’s other journey
  3. The legend of Jake. Canto the first, verse one
  4. iVenti
  5. When a black cat crosses my path
  6. The gift of the rose
  7. Freedom
  8. One hundred years of Django
  9. Habeas Corporus
  10. Feed the ghosts
  11. The case of the disappearing substitution
  12. Slow motion
  13. Hatred revealed
  14. Live link
  15. Mind reading
  16. The last few days
  17. Subliminal
  18. Tragic
  19. That other life
  20. You can’t live in the future for more than five minutes
  21. Why the theatre will never die
  22. Art movement
  23. Programming without math, part 12
  24. Fool rain
  25. Oskar Schindler, Pet Detective
  26. Ministry of Truthiness
  27. When newspapers read you
  28. Wash’n’Bowl
  29. An artistic undertaking
  30. Archaeology
  31. Peer-to-peer pressure

2009 365

December 2009

  1. Detective story
  2. In memory
  3. Programming without math, part 11
  4. The gathering storm
  5. Unobtainium
  6. Picture this song
  7. Lost in Lost in Austen
  8. Programming without math, part 10
  9. A fifth of vodka
  10. In her own write
  11. When snow falls in New York
  12. Literature
  13. The nature of empowerment
  14. Guest movie review
  15. Stories, coming and going
  16. Programming without math, part 9
  17. Subways, cabs and mad pedestrians
  18. Programming without math, part 8
  19. The guest of honor was absent
  20. Programming without math, part 7
  21. Universal spam
  22. Programming without math, part 6
  23. Two preflight haiku
  24. Programming without math, part 5
  25. Hijacked
  26. Programming without math, part 4
  27. Programming without math, part 3
  28. Programming without math, part 2
  29. Programming without math
  30. Psychic progeny
  31. Sun and Moon (part 30 – conclusion)

November 2009

  1. Sun and Moon (part 29)
  2. Sun and Moon (part 28)
  3. Sun and Moon (part 27)
  4. Sun and Moon (part 26)
  5. Sun and Moon (part 25)
  6. Sun and Moon (part 24)
  7. Sun and Moon (part 23)
  8. Sun and Moon (part 22)
  9. Sun and Moon (part 21)
  10. Sun and Moon (part 20)
  11. Sun and Moon (part 19)
  12. Sun and Moon (part 18)
  13. Sun and Moon (part 17)
  14. Sun and Moon (part 16)
  15. Sun and Moon (part 15)
  16. Sun and Moon (part 14)
  17. Sun and Moon (part 13)
  18. Sun and Moon (part 12)
  19. Sun and Moon (part 11)
  20. Sun and Moon (part 10)
  21. Sun and Moon (part 9)
  22. Sun and Moon (part 8)
  23. Sun and Moon (part 7)
  24. Sun and Moon (part 6)
  25. Sun and Moon (part 5)
  26. Sun and Moon (part 4)
  27. Sun and Moon (part 3)
  28. Sun and Moon (part 2)
  29. Sun and Moon (part 1)

October 2009

  1. Democracy
  2. Wild things, part 7
  3. Wild things, part 6
  4. Wild things, part 5
  5. Wild things, part 4
  6. Wild things, part 3
  7. Wild things, part 2
  8. Wild things, part 1
  9. A Serious Movie
  10. Wrong-way Oreo
  11. Nothing’s ever truly lost
  12. Moral sanitation workers
  13. The optimists
  14. Surviving childhood
  15. The advantages of vinyl
  16. Movie logic
  17. Planck’s constant
  18. Indecisive
  19. Collaboration
  20. A line of chalk
  21. Salt and pepper
  22. Undoable
  23. Ontologist
  24. Robot kiss
  25. Hermione on the harmonium
  26. Unusual blue eyes
  27. NotMySpace.com
  28. Lens flare
  29. Curious criticism
  30. Tea ceremony 58
  31. Nostalgia
  32. Arms and the blog

September 2009

  1. Romance and truffles
  2. Reverse colonialism
  3. Out of steam
  4. Libertarian communists on Mars
  5. Tea ceremony 53
  6. Necessary terrain
  7. Thought for the day…
  8. Chord
  9. Finally cool
  10. Perfect convergence
  11. Stars
  12. Tea ceremony 26
  13. Gravity has no friends
  14. Five fingers
  15. Negative architecture
  16. What We Tweet About When We Tweet About Love
  17. Genres
  18. Novel directions
  19. Tea ceremony 59
  20. Farewell (part 2)
  21. Farewell (part 1)
  22. A dream
  23. Troy and Barack
  24. Unspeakable
  25. Stopping by the Web on a Labor Day Weekend
  26. Tea ceremony 41
  27. Cultural differences
  28. Gone
  29. Access
  30. Rio

August 2009

  1. Wisdom of the Yogi
  2. Our Dada, who art in heaven
  3. Tea ceremony 31
  4. Bank
  5. Born to be wild
  6. Train of thought
  7. Smell the coffee
  8. Punctuation
  9. Say it soft and it’s almost like praying
  10. Counting to ten
  11. Training wheels
  12. Every man a Rembrandt
  13. National anthem
  14. Huluaholics
  15. Being two
  16. Comedy is not pretty
  17. Gender roles
  18. Live music
  19. King Tut’s bicycle
  20. Love the protagonist
  21. City summer haiku
  22. Harvey 2.0
  23. Laughing typewriter
  24. Last day
  25. Accent on leaving
  26. Wow
  27. Analogy
  28. Popular music
  29. In New Orleans
  30. An economy of precognition
  31. Near perfect

July 2009

  1. Looking forward
  2. Double threats
  3. Suspicious behavior
  4. Pleased
  5. Household appliances
  6. The Needle and the Stitch (book review)
  7. Comfort food
  8. Civics lessons, continued
  9. Civics lessons
  10. Der Bingle
  11. The last Victorian
  12. Headlines
  13. Digital Bollywood
  14. Just one thing
  15. Nike
  16. In Seattle
  17. Strange loop
  18. On a lake
  19. Up a mountain
  20. Double vision
  21. On the other hand
  22. Actual humans
  23. Perfect shoes
  24. Defenestration
  25. A glass of water
  26. Arms and the dinosaur
  27. Fireworks
  28. Ghost stories
  29. Pivot day
  30. You
  31. Pain is temporary

June 2009

  1. Stonewall in the Park
  2. Z to A
  3. Y R U …
  4. X people
  5. W
  6. V
  7. U turn
  8. T Rex
  9. S curves
  10. R is for Rocket
  11. Q E D
  12. P code
  13. O O
  14. N + 1
  15. Mmmm….
  16. L Systems
  17. K – 12
  18. J
  19. I did not realize
  20. H
  21. G forces
  22. F is for Future
  23. E pluribus unum
  24. D I Y
  25. C unbound
  26. B to B
  27. Alphabets
  28. Faces and bodies in motion
  29. Momentary encounters
  30. Bittersweet

May 2009

  1. Art appreciation
  2. Rupert Brooke
  3. Perforations for postage stamps
  4. Terminated
  5. Kiss / sober / kiss
  6. Song of Eden
  7. French film
  8. At the shore
  9. Carnage
  10. Storytelling
  11. Up and down
  12. Funny, he doesn’t look Vulcan
  13. The P word
  14. Jazz talk
  15. Local restaurant
  16. Gone but not gone
  17. Ruins
  18. Vim and vigor
  19. Owning the fourth dimension
  20. Stealth ads
  21. Vending machines in Osaka
  22. Metablog
  23. Movies from the future
  24. Beam me up
  25. Coastal differences
  26. New coffee pot
  27. Shoulders back
  28. Jessica Fletcher meets Samuel Beckett
  29. Sea song
  30. Shibuya
  31. A computer game without a computer

April 2009

  1. Inside dentist jokes
  2. Yes, yes I know
  3. Talking to computers, revisited
  4. Mindfulness
  5. Talking to computers
  6. When elevators go bad
  7. Shakespeare gets a date
  8. Earth Day in New York
  9. Two movies
  10. More acrostics…
  11. Paying attention
  12. Pack mentality
  13. Sonnet at dawn
  14. Emergence
  15. Acrostics are awesome things!
  16. Hamlet versus “Hamlet”
  17. Sexy Italians
  18. Buttons on the back
  19. Why not Braille?
  20. Braille writer
  21. Foundations
  22. Music in a dream
  23. Management Attention Units
  24. Green cheese on the moon, continued
  25. Green cheese on the moon
  26. Trains and cats
  27. Antigravity 103
  28. Antigravity 102
  29. Antigravity 101
  30. The magician and the clown

March 2009

  1. Looking for Marilyn
  2. Party conversation
  3. Popular elegance
  4. Navigation
  5. A techno-wish
  6. The right taxi
  7. Cultural divide
  8. To Brooklyn or by bus?
  9. A question about science
  10. The portable cathedral
  11. Clouds from the air
  12. Future Subversive
  13. Natural allies
  14. St. Patrick’s Day, American style
  15. Watching the Watchmen
  16. Dogs and cats
  17. This is not a video
  18. Useful responses
  19. Microeconomies
  20. A searching question
  21. Saturday month
  22. Phone interview
  23. Engineering
  24. Morning coffee
  25. All my guys and dolls
  26. Why we need universal programming literacy
  27. Other architectures
  28. Taj Mahal
  29. For when you stumble
  30. Agra
  31. Time shift

February 2009

  1. First Prelude
  2. Social Darwinism
  3. Enlightened self-interest
  4. Lyric poetry
  5. Uncharted regions
  6. Lovely
  7. snark.unfair
  8. Points of light
  9. Revelation
  10. The inverse law of gee-whiz
  11. The villain of the piece
  12. I love WordPress
  13. Next
  14. VDay
  15. Harmonium
  16. Beagles
  17. Perfect theatre
  18. Dark spaces, filled with light
  19. Busted
  20. Raised comiconsciousness
  21. Comiconscious
  22. Dream logic
  23. Frogs and ducks and jellybeans
  24. Antibranding
  25. Shocking
  26. Green bicycles
  27. Why vampires?

January 2009

  1. Vampire robots in love
  2. Prejudice is a fractal
  3. Illusory memories
  4. News about news
  5. Worlds apart
  6. The pleasure of company
  7. Worlds to come
  8. Bathroom humor
  9. The posture dialectic
  10. 2 + 2 = 4
  11. Popcorn
  12. End of the line
  13. Themes for today and tomorrow
  14. Onions never cry
  15. Don’t learn…
  16. Lady not in the dark
  17. Give him the benefit of the doubt
  18. Antimetabolic
  19. Propaganda
  20. 24
  21. Democracy
  22. Mr. Rogers
  23. Somebody is watching
  24. A fellow traveller
  25. An uplifting experience
  26. Bialy
  27. Let the right one in
  28. The Numostic cycle
  29. Numostic theory
  30. Four writers
  31. Circus
  32. Scenes from the novel XIII

2008 365

December 2008

  1. Villagers with torches
  2. Benjamin Button
  3. Aesthetic flow
  4. Proustipedia
  5. Emo porn
  6. After the solstice
  7. Not infinite, but really big
  8. Making a list, checking it twice
  9. Hoverboard
  10. Flip a coin again…
  11. Flip a coin
  12. Math 202
  13. Math 201
  14. Math 102
  15. Math 101
  16. Jellybean filter
  17. White parasol
  18. Ensemble
  19. Party
  20. Unblog
  21. Birds of a feather
  22. Working R.
  23. Pataphoria
  24. Space invaders
  25. The first digital character
  26. Avatar
  27. Democracy in action
  28. Good guys
  29. My amoeba
  30. Synecdoche, explained
  31. Readers and writers

November 2008

  1. Surprised
  2. Falling expectations
  3. Thanksgiving
  4. When does argument become religion?
  5. Where the memories lie
  6. Inflection point
  7. Kindling
  8. Missionary cheese
  9. Closing the loop
  10. Washington and garlic
  11. You’ve got mail
  12. The writing on the wall
  13. On a cold day in New York
  14. Program notes
  15. Failing to learn math and science
  16. Failure is an option
  17. Everybody knows
  18. Pope Pauses
  19. My tribe
  20. Arts and crafts project
  21. Broken glass
  22. Attack by ghost
  23. California outlaws inappropriate “marriage”
  24. The wonder of it all
  25. The big picture
  26. Yay!!
  27. Black, by Popular Demand
  28. Meeting people on airplanes
  29. Motion Capture

October 2008

  1. Halloween
  2. Ask not…
  3. Circular causality
  4. When in Rome
  5. Song
  6. L’esprit d’escalier
  7. Interplanetary time
  8. Economic Immunodeficiency Virus
  9. Napkin sketches
  10. A bouquet of haiku
  11. Euphemism
  12. Monterey
  13. Casting is destiny
  14. Other elephants, other rooms
  15. Tomorrow Never Knows
  16. Qualified
  17. Joe the Plumber
  18. Holding my breath
  19. An extraordinarily instructive disappointment
  20. Epexegetically
  21. I and thou
  22. Stealing beauty
  23. My giant
  24. The path
  25. Hate mail
  26. Puzzling
  27. Aunt Tom
  28. Rulebook
  29. Adorable
  30. Strategy
  31. Making an impression
  32. The drama of it all

September 2008

  1. Like watching Gidget address the Reichstag
  2. The Poitier effect
  3. The unreliable universe
  4. Snake
  5. Prime time
  6. Free to wander
  7. Mystery
  8. The first leaf to fall
  9. And another thing
  10. Below the surface
  11. Unwritten rules
  12. Unwritten
  13. Talk to me
  14. Back to the future
  15. The Palin Doctrine
  16. Lyrical tendencies
  17. Useful stuff
  18. Webcams
  19. Getting serious
  20. Thinking outside of the box
  21. Have you ever found that
  22. Today I managed
  23. Freud conquers space and time
  24. Ray tracing
  25. Paradox
  26. Dr. Evil
  27. Power
  28. Truth or “truth”
  29. Would you do it again?
  30. Batteries

August 2008

  1. Perfect day haiku
  2. Jiu Jitsu
  3. Girl movie, boy movie
  4. Four + three
  5. Salad daze
  6. A good deal (a parable)
  7. Playing to the house
  8. Second order species
  9. Arias with a twist
  10. Circular reasoning
  11. Peripheral thinking
  12. Charisma
  13. Assymmetry
  14. Secret weapon
  15. True story
  16. All the songs ever written, and one song
  17. More servings of pi
  18. Computer graphics
  19. Spoiler alert
  20. Fifteen digit man
  21. The marriage of true minds
  22. Vacation from the large
  23. Kluge
  24. The only way
  25. Genders and agendas
  26. Science of gender, gender of science
  27. Symmetries
  28. In the woods
  29. Our haiku garden
  30. The toy from uncle

July 2008

  1. Harlequin in a porkpie hat
  2. Daily meditations
  3. You never call…
  4. One thought, and then another
  5. Looking for hobbits
  6. Another train of thought
  7. Sad day
  8. Volunteering
  9. Sideways
  10. Jokerman
  11. Satiricom
  12. My cousin Ben
  13. A member of the wedding
  14. Patterns
  15. The secret power of restaurants
  16. Face the music
  17. Brad begins
  18. Oreo oreo oreo
  19. Prisons
  20. A surprising connection
  21. No choice
  22. Off the grid?
  23. Not exactly spam
  24. Playing “Hacking the Novel”
  25. Viam universae carnis
  26. On the nature of Love
  27. Second-hand memories
  28. Independence Day
  29. Encounters at the end of the world
  30. Because a breeze might stir a rainbow
  31. Half a year on

June 2008

  1. Tall tales
  2. TRON redux
  3. Some initial impressions
  4. Crispin Glover
  5. A debate in Dublin
  6. The secret music of hands
  7. Two brothers
  8. Norvegan
  9. The house down the block
  10. Almost the same
  11. Oslo
  12. Un coup de fils
  13. Crossing oceans
  14. Travel stories
  15. Beautiful creatures
  16. Your tree is ready
  17. Utrecht
  18. And the beginning of Central Park
  19. The end of the universe
  20. Somebody needs a talking to
  21. In a flash
  22. Leonard Cohen II
  23. Leonard Cohen I
  24. Some enchanted evening
  25. At play
  26. The greatest threat
  27. Second try – reflections on a jade knife
  28. Anybody want to try their hand at this?
  29. Meritocracy
  30. All the king’s men

May 2008

  1. You could do that
  2. The last sentence is actually invisible.
  3. Human first
  4. Train of thought
  5. Not remarkable
  6. Recently, on the subway
  7. You’re innocent when you dream
  8. Under the radar
  9. Figure 1
  10. Scenes from the novel XII
  11. Mixed media
  12. Figure and ground
  13. Ted
  14. Eros
  15. First Emperor
  16. Homo hubris
  17. A question for the ages
  18. Scenes from the novel XI
  19. My puppet friends
  20. Is it you or me?
  21. Holm for Mother’s Day
  22. Gentleman’s agreements
  23. Ted’s mom
  24. Beam me up, Harry
  25. Scenes from the novel X
  26. A Mark of distinction
  27. From Dopey to Dopamine
  28. Rounding the bases
  29. Touching all the bases
  30. Make believe it came from you
  31. May day
  32. Emily’s poem

April 2008

  1. Scenes from the novel IX
  2. Spinach
  3. Anatomy of gameplay
  4. In Seattle
  5. Off the deep end
  6. A more measured approach
  7. Scenes from the novel VIII
  8. So much depends
  9. Appreciating the gesture
  10. Moments
  11. Having gone there…
  12. Should I go there?
  13. Bambi’s mom avenged
  14. Scenes from the novel VII
  15. A perfect object
  16. The Galaxy Quest Scale
  17. History, Part III
  18. History, Part II
  19. History, Part I
  20. Petrushka
  21. Scenes from the novel VI
  22. Why I like birthdays
  23. Don’t go chasing waterfalls
  24. Angelic tendencies
  25. Counterfeiters
  26. We fly in our dreams
  27. Why do we dream of flying?
  28. Scenes from the novel V
  29. But she was
  30. Individual differences

March 2008

  1. Fragile
  2. Something good
  3. The Great Neil Young Mystery
  4. Eros and Thanatos
  5. Scenes from the novel IV
  6. The unkindest cut
  7. The Great McGuffin
  8. ToM foolery
  9. I think you suspect I believe you agree with my opinion.
  10. Infelicity
  11. First day of Spring
  12. Astonished
  13. Scenes from the Novel III
  14. Sadder but wiser
  15. Time, you thief
  16. Reflections on a gift
  17. A Page turned
  18. A Page turning
  19. Seafaring
  20. Scenes from the novel II
  21. Webb sites
  22. Cure for feeling listless
  23. Prosaic
  24. List of things to do
  25. Revealing thoughts
  26. Scenes from the novel
  27. Answer, in depth
  28. On South Beach
  29. Speechless
  30. Standing on one foot
  31. Leap days

February 2008

  1. Cruising with Microsoft
  2. Yes, but why ?
  3. What is in a name?
  4. Walking around Manhattan
  5. Does universal programming even make sense?
  6. Personal Values
  7. The poem, complete
  8. A good start
  9. Storming the castle
  10. Animated enthusiasm
  11. Reflecting on a clever idea
  12. Remembrance of things past
  13. Three funerals and a wedding
  14. The Heleniad – epilogue
  15. Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  16. My cup of tea
  17. For reasons that I don’t fully understand
  18. Concernant le Heleniad
  19. Just around the corner
  20. Connection
  21. The Heleniad, canto the second, part the third
  22. Future imperfect tense
  23. Small detour
  24. Present imperfect tense
  25. Past imperfect tense
  26. Family values
  27. Fractal narratives
  28. The Heleniad, canto the second, part the second
  29. La la

January 2008

  1. Chemistry set
  2. Why did you do that in my dream?
  3. When worlds collide
  4. There was cake
  5. Wagging the dog
  6. The Heleniad, canto the second, part the first
  7. Thought for the day
  8. Most Sincerely
  9. Sincerely
  10. Learning from children
  11. I stole one day
  12. Gods and Puppets
  13. The Heleniad, part the third
  14. Upon reflection
  15. When cars fly
  16. The Trick
  17. Parthenogenic seatbelts
  18. Jane Austen’s voice
  19. Dancing about Music
  20. The Heleniad continues
  21. Trust Me
  22. Playing “Hack the Character”
  23. Mock Dinosaur Soup
  24. When everything changes
  25. Is He Dead?
  26. Today I meta teacup.
  27. The Heleniad begins
  28. Procedural Conversations
  29. The unheralded day
  30. A new year

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