Where I write for the sake of writing. No promise of quality. Here is an attempt at interpreting thesis 60 of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.
read moreThe celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embedding the image of a possible role. Being a …
Let us begin with a simplified version of the Mayan writing system. That is, we will encode English phonetically with the glyphs that represent sounds in Maya. We won’t have all the sounds, but oh-well!
Use the included syllabary to construct words from the associated sounds. Syllables in Maya …
read moreTo stave off the miserable Pittsburgh winter I started collecting plants and lights.
One strategy I used was to start a small Hydroponic garden of lettuce. I followed the guide on Hydroponics Indoors almost exactly. I found the website very helpful, and when I emailed the owner a clarifying question …
read moreToday, while reading a paper on Mayan Ball Courts, I came across the phrase Yax Hal Witz, or "First True Mountain." I immediately opened a tab to find the mountain. Or to find if it even existed.
If you search the phrase you end up at an article from the …
read moreDesirability of textiles from quality to humanity
read moreWhen possible I try to pay with cash. Here's why
As always, I am writing these entries in order to solidify and formulate my opinions. I may end up reversing opinions of what I write. I hope that by writing this out I may have a better understanding then the general mutterings which pass through my brain on occasion. Let …
read moreAboard a bus departing the Cancun airport I notice a small stepped-pyramid adjacent to the on-ramp of the high-way. It stands the height of a single story, too close to the roadway to have been constructed afterwards, but oddly prominent. Is this pyramid a lesser, forgotten Tulum or Chitzen Itza …
read moreHere is a list of things to keep in mind for the next time you use an ATM.
In July 2016, State Street Bank reached a $382 million settlement with DOJ for rigging foreign currency exchanges.
In June 2014, the French bank BNP Paribas was ordered to pay $8.9 …
This summer I deployed star charts in hopes of gaining skills and acquiring better habits. The star charts started on the 13th of July and ended whenever I realized they were no longer working. In this post I will try to identify why.
This qualitative review of my progress will …
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