| Tom's Blog | A blog is a terrible idea, but I have one anyway. Lots of fun short topics here. |
| Woggle | On the South Asian gesture pair |
| Pabrai | Genius |
| Love by Men | An Elephant in the Room |
| A reason for AI | Maybe |
| Taj Mahal Magic | The magical-perception inducing optical illusions of the Taj Mahal. |
| Politics and Emotional Regulation | Because people would kill or die for their self-concept. |
| CPAP Head Slap | a testimonial |
| Grief | logical decomposition of the stages of grief |
| The BFM | Benefax Flows Model: a generalization of Economics |
| Mean Thoughts | The Pythagorean meas: Arithmetic, Geometric, and Harmonic, and when to use them. |
| Trolling | The logic and evolution of a new class of speech acts |
| Art vs Life | Paul Klee; Bad Art; and Wholeness |
| Nepal notes | on Identity and Motivation |
| International Two's Day | The significance and aesthetics of that other number: 2 |
| Trump Wun? | Scratching my chin |
| Worthless Bitcoin? | 0 ≤ BTC but USD < BTC |
| Do better, Snopes | Self-serving hack work is not what I hoped to find. |
| It's Over, or, Zombie Russian Roulette | A funny/sick model of Covid ending, and ending sooner than expected |
| Covid and Other Costs and Benefits | Because there are costs, including lives lost not from Covid but from the shutdown |
| F your Feelings? | Even those who reject (their own, and your) feelings have feelings |
| On Hair | The original falsification |
| Mask Message: You're Welcome! | It's not about self-protection, it's about protecting others. |
| "IED" vs "Mine" | "IED" is racist, xenophobic, stupid, and wrong -- or am I wrong? |
| The Linguistic Pragmatics of "Black Lives Matter" | A little linguistics goes a long way, getting us all on the same page. |
| House Color Scheme Tester | Play with colors and combinations to find what you like |
| Watch your pronouns | Grumpy Tom says Mind your We's and They's |
| Scrolling spectrograph announcement | This is the funnest thing in phonetics. Watch real time sound analysis scroll across the screen. |
| Presentation | How should this site organize itself for you? |
| Gravity is BS | Announcing Quantum Local Gravity |
| Sweet Accounting | Korean double entry 500 years before the West;
Wikipedia still hasn't explained Dr and Cr properly. |
| Gravity is BS | Addenda announcement: Objections confounded |
| The Iron Rule | Asking where you would use the Iron Rule |
| Burn-the-herd-immunity | A cynical, extreme, wrong view of Covid. |
| PC? | It's not PC but cursing is a sign of intimacy with the listener. |
| Fat or Fit? | When Snuggly beats Anorexic |
| How are we doing? | From Roman democracy, we have come a long way. |
| EQ-test the police! | Cop = Social worker plus gun, not
soldier plus rules of engagement. The character you
hire for will be the character of your cop community.
So let's stop hiring emotional retards. |
| Gut cassette. | An invention to study the microbiome. |
| Identity | An argument against all identities, not just in politics. |
| Starting a web log, 20 years late. | Every day is the same day, today. So why would anyone
care what you said relative to just one of them? Yet, sclerotic with self-importance, we do. |
