Of the five Platonic Solids, two pairs are “inverses” (aka “duals”), in
the sense that they transform into each other by the operation of
swapping facial centroids for vertices. If you take a Cube, place a
point in the center of each face, and create edges connecting these
points, you have described an Octahedron; conversely with the
Octahedron to the […]

This picture jumped in my face synchronistically earlier today. It bears a certain reference to an illuminatory number rant, so I thought I’d just post it here. Oh - if you’re looking at the front page you’ll need to click on something - either the title of this post or (if it exists) the “Read […]

A person of my acquaintance has shown the unfortunate habit of demonstrating ignorance, both in the sense of not knowing something and in the one of (apparently) intentionally ignoring it.
In particular, the willful ignorance of the definitions of both infinity and nothingness. He believes, as many of you do, that those two things are […]

1. Be Impeccable with your Word2. Take Nothing Personally3. Make No Assumptions4. Always Do Your Best
The basic idea behind the Four Agreements is that as we grow up from infancy, we are influenced by various others - parents, siblings, relatives, teachers, preachers, friends, acquaintances… and enemies. To the extent that we believe what they tell […]

As the saying goes, ya can’t win ‘em all… and last night the powerful 3hatmojo trivia team sure ’nuff didn’t.
Actually, if not for the complete obscurity of the last question, 3hatmojo might well have come second, but - as Saint Darrell Royal once said, “Don’t talk to me about woulda shoulda coulda, boys. What shoulda […]

It seems like everybody wants something for nothing - or at least something FROM nothing…
Just writing a blog hooks you into the mindset… okay, maybe it doesn’t hook you, but it hooked me, and I suspect it has hooked thousands of others.
It seems like lots of them are busily trying to sell shit […]

The Real Secret is open - it’s not closed, and it’s not hidden. It isn’t made a big deal of, because - I think - so many of those, most of them, who discover the secret, fall into one of two camps: either they are completely happy with their discovery and simply go their own […]

I’ve always had ideas for new (and improved?) rules and/or rules changes for all sorts of games. The Smackdown Trivia contests on Some Tuesdays at The Railroad Blues is no exception… in a previous post I mentioned a couple of potential changes for Trivia, and here’s another one.
When a challenge is issued, if the challenged […]

I’ve been working on a “new” song… it’s an old one, but I’ve never had it in my (limited) repertoire.
I remember seeing it performed live by the writer – the incredibly gifted and very beautiful Emmylou Harris – not long after she wrote it. Emmylou had joined Gram Parsons in what proved to be some […]

See what happens when you click on the wrong link? I was getting ready for some dessert - in the form of a bowl of chocolate ice cream with pecans on top… and up jumped this picture.

I’m not sure I want the ice cream any more…
You have to go to the “read more” before you […]