like a like a like a sex machine! 1, 2, 3, 4! The agent-model of community behavior is taking shape and I feel pretty good about the whole thing, still. We have two others interested in adapting the basics for … Continue reading →

Further down the rabbit hole of complexity theory. Scale and perspective. We see natural phenomena that strike as us interesting and sophisticated, yet mindless. For instance, we see plants grow in the direction of the sun, some of them even … Continue reading →

Finally a long held question is answered: are there any planets that are not in orbit around a star, like, free floating through the galaxy, maybe even between galaxies, unattached? You know, the Obsidian Duck of planets? Indeed, there is … Continue reading →

Given some significant departures at work, things are shifting around and I’m involved in many of them. My daily schedule might be different than it has been, with some more responsibilities and things to run. It’s fine. On Sunday I … Continue reading →

Hi all, sorry for the late and inconsistent updates. It’s been a race-around week. To ponder: randomness in a system is necessary for its survival. Take a trail of ants following each other to a food source. Though the trail … Continue reading →

  More soon.

Update coming a bit later today. Busy morning. In the meantime, this will brighten your day:  

Teryx. teryx.       teryx.       Last night I spoke at a conference on sustainable peace. Small turnout, but we had a nice conversation about pedagogy in emerging fields that suffer from the theory-to-practice gap. Key point … Continue reading →

As a hater of politics and both parties supposedly running our country, I hate psychopathic religious nutjobs who think they have divine mandates more, and I’m happy that the party increasingly under the influence of such groups has handedly lost. … Continue reading →

Sorry for the missing days, time was very short. Because of the power outages around town last week I invited some coworkers to crash at my place so the apartment was very full. Two in Hollow Way Studio, one in … Continue reading →