Just to clarify: Gargamel was interested in smurfs because he wanted to eat them?

Spent an hour today trying to confirm the difference between the blue and white Tapcon concrete fasteners and the answer is that the blue ones are blue and the white ones are white.

This is exhausting.

scientificamerican.com/article/extrov…

We're far enough away from the pandemic that distance learning technologies popularized during COVID have taken on new meaning.

I wrote about Columbia's use of 'moving classes online' in response to campus protests as a kind of pedagogy theater.

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Some personal news.

Spargelmotion

Gonna start tripping the toilet from now on.

Tapping is a kind of clicking.

Garfield is not a cat who likes lasagne, but a cat composed of it.

e•World

This was demoralizing.

Sing, O muse, of the image map

Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine is finally coming out this June with MIT Press!

tinyurl.com/2k746crt

Will Wright: “I learned more about the history and practice of simulation from this book than I ever knew.”