Short Story
“I can take him!” -last words of Ezekiel Bonesundered before fighting the Mushroom King.
Summer 2023
How can I get to Alaska without being a passenger?
Websites
I wish the Autopian would hire some people that aren’t angry all the time. Like Stef Schrader. DT and MS are both pretty good, but I generally don’t read MH, PG, or JT anymore.
Robot Arms
There is a serious lack of mid-tier robot arms in the $200 to $750 range.
Physics
You really can’t shoot a hamster out of anything. The aerodynamics are all wrong.
Beyond the Idle
Been playing The Tower. It’s an active incremental game.
Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark was a truly fantastic movie.
Goodnight Moon
Too much negativity, even in my own head, and the positive stuff is bland, I’m-not-dying statements of objective truth but I don’t feel.
I broke my last water bottle and got a new one. I’m happy about that. New shoes came in. Fit well out of the box (almost a first). Gave a student who needed it a pep talk. He seemed appreciative. Saving a ton of money by not buying junk food, but man do I want some junk. The family is well, and the nephew loves Minecraft.
The Gurgeh Perpetual Motion Machine
In honor of the Culture series, I present the Gurgeh, a true perpetual motion machine.
Originally the Gurgeh was a 1% efficient power supply. It was useful in a peculiar way but not too efficient (that 1%). So after a year of work, I improved the efficiency to 2%.
Which was better, but still not hot.
After another year of labor, I improved the efficiency to 3%, an improvement of another 1%. That’s 1% a year for two years running. Good, but it still needed improvement.
Another year of toil and research passed, and I got it to 4%! That’s 1% a year again.
Perpetual motion! At 1% a year, in 96 years it will be 100% efficient! In 97 years, it will be 101% efficient! Free energy forever! Post scarcity world!
The Gurgeh, our ticket to a real, plausible, totally not space-wizard fantasy, hard scifi, post scarcity world. You can always extrapolate from any dataset forever.
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