A very New York thing happened today: my friend won a lottery for front-row seats for the Tony-winning Broadway show “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” The play was brilliant, and I enjoyed myself thoroughly with laughs, gasps, and tears. But wait, there’s more! Continue reading Curious Incident
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Sports Spectating
I follow two sports: NBA basketball and pro Super Smash Bros Melee.
Growing up, I was blindly anti-sports. How people could get so invested in their region’s sports team, enough to spend hundreds of dollars for seats and enough riot when they lose and parade when they win? It’s just a sport! You idolize men who spend their livelihoods throwing a bouncy spherical thing through an elevated hoop! Continue reading Sports Spectating
Mock Magic Personal Statement
Preface: while reading my friend’s personal statement about gaming, I thought back to applying to college 8 years ago and thinking about writing an essay about playing Magic the Gathering. I decided against it because gaming still has this weird stigma of being a fringe hobby and a waste of time, but back in January 2016, when solidly 25, I wrote a personal statement as if I were still 17. Continue reading Mock Magic Personal Statement
Things I have more of than spoons
After having lived on my own and mostly cooking for myself for 3+ years and accumulating many pots and pans and spatulas and baking pans, I still only have one spoon. I got my spoon in Taiwan in 2007 (yay AID!). It has a bird on it.
And here’s a list of things I have more of than spoons: Continue reading Things I have more of than spoons
The Life of a Photon
Chapter 1 – Chaos
Our hero’s tale begins with fusion. A collision between two atoms. An explosion. An event so violent that when the atoms meet, they converge and spew forth a fanfare of energy. This energy swirls around wildly before it begins to divide and coalesce into quanta. Each quantum is simultaneously both unique and identical to every other, and from one of them, our hero is created. A photon. Continue reading The Life of a Photon
How to win Set
To find sets in Set,
- use your naturally powerful visual pattern recognition to scan the board holistically
- If one feature is very common, systematically analyze only that subset
- continue analysis when sets are being removed and cards are being dealt
- anticipate useful cards or categories before they are dealt
- analyze new boards starting from fresh cards
- develop a method for finding difficult sets on nearly deadlocked boards
Hello world!
‘sup.