Games
Yesterday I played Inside, again. From the creators of Limbo.
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John Conway
A few days ago John Conway died because of complications due to the coronavirus disease.
Many thoughts come to mind related to that.
Random tabs
After not writing for a while, I feel it's kind of crazy that other people may read this.
I'm trying to come back to this blog as if it was some kind of journal. Which it isn't. It's also a way for me to take so many random things out of my system and not feel that I read and read without producing any kind of output. “What a terrible read!”, you may say. Well, yes! You are warned.
Musturbation
How should I spend my time? What must I do?
This is a question I often find asking myself. I want to change it. How about... what do I want to do?
Cargo Cult Science
“Cargo Cult Science” is the name of a speech that Feynman gave in 1974 (at Caltech's commencement address). I've always loved it because it embeds so plainly what I think is the essence of science, as opposed to pseudosciences.
Mua
Mua. It's the name I gave to my grandma when I was a kid. I used to call her “mamá”, but they corrected me, she was not my mom. Still, being a figure so close to my mom (I used to spend a lot of time with her as a baby), I tried some variants of the word until I settled down on “Mua”. My aunts and uncles seem to have enjoyed the name, and everybody started calling her so. For me, my cousins and the vast majority of people I know, she was Mua.
First communion – not for me
Some thoughts on religion and sacraments.
New (color-blinded) sights
This is just a silly thought.
There is this company called EnChroma that makes some special glasses. They filter certain frequencies of light that lie too in-between overlapping colors for certain partially color-blind people (like myself), so they can see “colors” they didn't know existed there. [Note: corrected after a friend told me that they do not change frequencies of light, which was what I wrote originally.]
There are many funny videos of the reactions of people trying them for the first time. It's kind of cute and charming, if they are true. I was eager to try them, but delayed getting some of those for a long time now. I wasn't sure why. Maybe it's kind of ok to miss something if you haven't ever been exposed to it?
But I think I know better now. I think the reason is that I don't want to just get them for myself. If there is a striking change, I'd like to appreciate it with others too, share the impressions of seeing something “for the first time” with people I care for.
I guess all experiences that are worth it are shared experiences.
So... not getting them for myself, or at least not for the moment. And crossing them out from my gtd list.
Well, end of the silly thoughts for now!