Author: RTNM

A Few Thoughts on Creating Lineups for NASCAR DFS I play NASCAR DFS (daily fantasy sports) on FanDuel and DraftKings.  I don’t have a gambling jones, I started playing because I was attracted to the mathematics underlying the lineup selection process.  On DraftKings, you are tasked with picking 6 drivers per lineup; on FanDuel, it […]

Give Me Some Space Redux! On 12/12/19, I posted an essay about spaces after sentences called Give Me Some Space! The other day I saw that there was a significant development in the story.  After reading about Microsoft’s decision to unilaterally “settle” the debate, I decided to update my original post. If you use Microsoft […]

Wouldn’t it be Wonderful? In April 1989, some people thought we were on the cusp of a worldwide revolution.  Energy was about to become free for anyone who wanted it.  Third world countries were going to be able to build and power infrastructure at virtually no cost.  Pollution was going to disappear.  Even nuclear power […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Five: Random Pulses of Bliss   Buford Lister lives in a one-dimensional world.  His universe is a straight line, a simple number line; everyone, by necessity, lives somewhere on the line.  There is nowhere else to go, nowhere else to be.  Consequently, all […]

Why are you Looking at me that Way? I have experienced some strange things during my nearly 58 years, and if I were to rank those experiences on some sort of Scale of the Bizarre, I would put Disjunctive Cognition near the top.  There is a very good chance you have also experienced this phenomenon […]

Medusa by The WRB Project This post is slightly different than those that have come before, this one is in multimedia form.  I wrote, directed, shot, edited, and produced the following music video.  We did everything in one take with a budget of zero. I am making a short film called Modern Day Medusas.  The […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Four: Hey There Athena Preface A Preface, seriously?  Do I really need to include a Preface in any essay, especially this one, or have I reached new heights when it comes to absurdity?  I will let out a little sigh as I tell […]

Sidd Finch, what can I say… you’ve never heard of him, have you?  What if I told you that the sports world stopped in its tracks in April 1985, and what if I told you it was because of The Mighty Sidd Finch.  Buckle up, this is one of my favorite stories. Sidd Finch, Harvard […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Three: Siskel & Ebert and Top 10 Lists about This & That and Such & Such: A Short Essay with a Relatively Long Title about a few of my Favorite Things   In their Best of 1985 show, Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert […]

A Few Choice Words The other day, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) went on television to put the smackdown on young people who are not practicing social distancing.  She made the point that “asymmetric” people are spreaders of COVID-19, the virus that is doing so much damage worldwide.  It is clear she meant to say “asymptomatic.”  […]