Category: Misc

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind, Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Zero: The Zeroth Chapter of this Book   “Excuse me, isn’t that supposed to be a negative one (-1) in line 16?” Phillip “The Yeti” Frank   *****   An anxious and fresh-faced Buford Lister sat at the center of the head table.  […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind, Volume 2: The Athena Chapters Preface   Do you have any idea what a Preface is as opposed to an Introduction?  I have read thousands of books, and I must admit that I was not clear on the distinction, so I hit my favorite search engine (Google) and got […]

“Write drunk, edit sober.” Ernest Hemingway never said this. “If you are going to do a Mathematical Deep Think, it is best that you be sober…and around 22 years old.” Buford Lister (personal communication) I am not that big a fan of Ernest Hemingway or his writing.  That said, there are a couple of quotes […]

An Average Tennis Essay This post is about Rahul and his tired right arm.  One night, not long ago, he couldn’t sleep.  At around 5:00 a.m., he got up and decided to head down to the tennis courts to hit some serves.  He got all his electronic equipment together (speed gun, camera, etc.) and fired […]

How About Some Tennis Math? I have been thinking a lot about probability, especially the probabilistic nature of tennis. Why have I been on a probability kick lately? It certainly is a tricky and slippery subject, perhaps the hardest I have ever studied, and I guess I am just trying to keep on top of […]

An Average Post…(harmonic, that is) Sometimes I sits and thinks…and sometimes I just sits… A.A.Milne Sometimes I sits and thinks…and sometimes I sits and thinks about thinking… Buford Lister, personal communication I remember reading somewhere a long time ago, that what made humans unique in the animal world is that we can think about thinking.  […]

The Package This is a piece of Flash Fiction.  The topic: A person arrives home to find a package on their doorstep. Simeon Langdon felt an unnaturally cold chill as he unbuckled his radiation suit and removed his propulsion pack.  Damn, the hairs on my arms are standing on end.  Why are they doing that?  […]

A Most Curious Text I have a bunch of relatives that live down South.  Many of them live in M i crooked letter crooked letter i crooked letter crooked letter i humpback humpback i. At least that is how I was taught to spell Mississippi by my cousin Christy when she was around 5 years […]

Do Me a Solid…and Read my Post about a Platonic Solid. Something extraordinary happened a couple days ago.  I woke up and went upstairs to my library, sat down and turned on my computer; after that, I got some lunch and then went to the gym.  Nothing too exciting except for the fact that by […]