This is the personal homepage of P.D. Magnus, a philosopher whom I like to refer to as me. I have a separate professional homepage that links to courses, my cv, and academic papers.

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What does kleenex use to blow its nose? [permalink]

26jun2008: If you google the phrase "search", the first result is Alta Vista.

Decktetcetera [permalink]

18jun2008: I have posted a colour version of the Decktet, along with more uses for it. In the PDF of the colour deck, I suggest that it "is, perhaps, the kind of tarot deck they use in the alternate universe where Charlemagne was a badger." I am dubious about whether that is a coherent counterfactual at all, but I liked the phrase.

Someone (not me) has listed all of the Decktet games at BoardgameGeek. I hesitated to do it because of the hubris that would have been involved, but also because I couldn't figure out whether it should be one entry for the Decktet or separate entries for each game. The user who listed them opted for the latter, maximizing their payoff in geek gold.

A flight, a fish, a storm, a tree [permalink]

12jun2008: We flew out to California last weekend for Cristyn's family reunion. A distant cousin rents a place in Monterey and hosted the festivities. Here are some snapshots from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Our trip was fortuitously timed to miss most of Albany's terrible heat wave. A thunderstorm rolled in last night, cooled things off, and flipped a birch tree into my front yard. The direction of the wind meant that the tree didn't fall on anything important, although the mailbox was a near thing. A goodly part of today was spent cutting up said tree, which is now bundled up at the street for disposal.

Cristyn and I played several games of Quincunx in the airport, plus a few games with my brother-in-law over the weekend. We have played it enough to have settled on a stable version of the rules, which I've posted.

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