Tom's Blog | A blog is a terrible idea, but I have one anyway. Lots of fun short topics here. |
International Two's Day | |
Trump Wun? | Scratching my chin |
Worthless Bitcoin? | 0 <= BTC && 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. |