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Consider the 3 body problem. Three masses orbiting each other in space — it can never be a stable system. Now consider every situation in your life. How much more complex it is than a simple 3 body problem. There’s never any guarantee of stability. Real life comes with no rock solid guarantees […]

Keep this under you hat for now but I’ve checked and it turns out it’s truer than we ever dared believe. /// Everything is intertwingled

Pause right there buddy. If you thought this small fridge door was a portal to another universe — you are wrong. You are wrong because the sign on the hospital fridge says “STOP” “No entry through these doors”. But the mad and the wise and the engineers we […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

Happy Zoo Year! (sorry i didn't write it sooner -- trapped in a roman, wilderness of pain, and all the children, are - in sane.... ) etc.

There was once a Brisbane band called “Cunningham” (or ‘H*A*M*S’ to their devoted followers) and they had this cool song with a catchy hook that said “I’m going through changes I have been for ages” …and that’s what I think of when I hear this cool old blues song, “changes” by Charles Bradley […]

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Hi I’m Leon. I overthink things. A trivia question in a Christmas cracker yesterday was “how many sides does a snowflake have?” I thought “I bet the answer they want is “6” even though that’s a totally wrong and weird use of the word “side” - I don’t know the right word off the top of my head […]

HO HO HO, just a friendly christmas 🎅 reminder to all the dads out there who play guitar 🎸 and whose children are receiving a lovely toy ukulele for Christmas 🎄 this year:

So far, the theory has met with 100% confirmation— Every drug designed to relieve {problem} will also list {problem} as a possible side effect. - Relieves nausea, dizziness, vomiting …. Side effects may include …. nausea, dizziness vomiting - Cures your headache …. Side effects… headache - […]

The phrase “the elephant in the room” is exclusively used in situations where there is no actual elephant in the room. If “the elephant in the room” was an elephant, it would not be an elephant in the room situation.

Humans’ll do anything, anything at all, destroy the whole world, just to avoid one moment of boredom

Listening to Seja Vogel interview with Dave Graney and Clare Moore from Seja’s podcast “HearSej” #AusMusic https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tHcQ5VPgtoxvgWIkDyePl?si=KmDEZaGFQs2BAm8chcNeJw&pi=NECsiBMYTc-Ul

Continual focus on terrible problems that are too big to solve is both depressing, and a way to shirk responsibility for doing meaningful work where you can actually make a difference. Incidentally, do some arithmetic 15/15 stars in 24 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ […]

It has been 0 days since I used Excel as a database. http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm

This anti-pattern I see again and again. Boomer who grew up before every service job enslaved you to a computer-driven script, rocks up to be served and immediately starts making small talk like you used to in order to indicate friendliness and form a bit of a bond rather than making everything […]

This walkthrough from the Excel World Champion - showing how he solved the problems in the final, is pretty amazing to behold. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mx_xhiIRpw Note that he imports a bunch of custom functions and even a *generator* of functions. Seems a bit cheaty… but also very […]

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You miss 110% of the shots you don’t take!

Beat this losers Wordle 1,642 2/6 🟨⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

People don’t want a better world, they want *less thinking*

One must consider Sisyphus buff. For Sisyphus every day is leg day.

Rajwinder Singh found guilty. 15/15 stars in 15 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://additional.today

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“NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/03/ndis-plans-computer-generated

Rereading Heart of Darkness for the nth time. (n is somewhere above 5) I suggest instead one really ought to consider performing a little mental arithmetic. 15/15 stars in 17 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://additional.today

Some people see bun.js as a self contained alternative to js. Anthropic see it as something of an excellent skynet delivery platform.

Anyone got any plans? Exciting time coming up. You got any plans over the most expensive time of year for having plans?

The soft rock of Bob Seger is not my jam, but I have to state that this line from “against the wind” is a masterclass in lyrical economy: wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then

If history has taught us anything, it is that history is boring. Do some mental arithmetic instead: 15/15 stars in 25 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://additional.today

Vale Tom Stoppard. Probably the first thing I knew him for was “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead” — (and I was lucky to see a local Brisbane production of that recently!) But here’s my favorite — “DarkSide” — Stoppard’s take on Pink Floyd’s dark side of the moon — […]

I wanna see a movie where Michael Caine (played by Michael Caine) wakes up in hospital after hitting his head. He doesn’t have amnesia, except for one thing: he’s forgotten how to do a Michael Caine accent. No one believes it’s him and he’s soon homeless and unemployed. He gets a series of […]

Alice, the sentient infoentity from a distant star who got marooned in our defunct cable TV network due to an error in astrogation wan ts remind¹ you that her tendrils are a safe space for young humans affected by your planet’s cruel attempts to deny your nonconforming adolescents a social mileu […]

[Koalas and road crossings] Lately Brisbane has been doing a much improved job of highlighting roads where Koalas are often killed. There’s signs, reduced speed limits, speed detectors, carefully designed fences allowing Koalas to climb back off the road. I support all this. One sign listed […]

You won't often hear me express sympathy for HR departments. However, here's part of the reality they now face: They're in a situation where every single employee can get wildly wrong but confident sounding answers from "AI", on extremely detailed points, and then bring that back to HR as a […]

In the Pink Floyd song “Pigs on the Wing” (track I of “Animals”, 1975) there’s a line: “Wondering which of the buggers to blame” — I know that’s the official lyric, but I’ve just been listening close and now I think he says “blade” … doesn’t make much sense but listening close I’m sure I hear a […]

Some methods of data compression are “lossy”, hence, we can expect that some methods of data compression are “gainy”

Babylonians were using Pythagoras theorem at least 1000 years before Pythagoras.

People worry AI will replace all artists and creators. To counter this, I present my best cartoon. It shows an unrecognisable Doc Brown from “Back to the future” illegibly shouting “Ears? Where we’re going we won’t need… ears!” And an unrecognisable Marty […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

Man in the shops is standing too still, staring too intently, too much weird energy, drilling laser holes with his eyes, into the bakery du jour lemon square danish 2pack reduced $2.50

Early today I was driving past a transit lane that is "T3" meaning you need at least 3 people in the car to use that lane. I generally think T2,T3 lanes are a Good Thing™️as they nudge toward "good" behaviour. But all things are dose dependent, and I think T3 is too much. It's hardly used […]

Intrepid wiki researchers have discovered that there are five different articles at my wiki that mention "Back to the Future". So I've applied a tag to them, grouping them into a category: https://wiki.secretgeek.net/Category/bttf I was shocked to see so few.

i've been reading stuff related to Joseph Campbell's "hero with a thousand faces", and it talked about the "shadow forms" of the Hero are: 1. the coward and 2. the bully. The purest form of this that leaps to mind for me is George McFly and Biff Tannen in Back to the Future. 1/N

Controversial opinion here. I don’t think that using drones to surveil people who have persecutions of delusion is a very good idea.

What is the half-life of a mystery?

Hmm. Discovery that “ light can magnetically influence matter, not just illuminate it” — Wow. After running a few back of the napkin calculations, I see this as paving the way toward LOW COST, portable, omnipresent fusion reactors, in under five years. And I’m a bit of an expert on this topic […]

Now this is better than I hoped for… This is a cutdown version of “The Beatles” aka the White Album. Just 15 tracks but every single one is *perfection*. It still makes a 45 minute album. (And sorry for using Spotify, I live in the enshittisphera, stuck with these oligopolies today) […]

We’re not going to do Christmas gifts for the extended family this year. Honestly it’s a bit of a relief. With all the new laws it’s been hard to get fruit flavored vapes for all the nieces and nephews. Hashtag bad uncle problems.

The other day I watched “Firebringer” the musical, from StarKid. This came to my attention due to a short viral clip of people singing “I don’t wanna do the work today” - The whole 2 hour musical is good, and should be referenced in ever serious academic work on anthropology. Enjoy […]

Piece by piece society optimises for its own oblivion