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The magic of dreaming and the power of imitation
Two episodes describe the magic that happens when you get inspired by something and rush to work on an imitation process—on something that you want to go after. Such episodes may change your life. In my case, there are two episodes plus one. Also, an homage to John Conway, mathemagician, RIP. Continue reading
Creation and meaning and House of Cards
[No spoilers ahead] One episode of the new season of House of Cards has some Tibetan monks make a beautiful colored-sand mandala in the White House. Like all good mandalas (and puzzles, by the way) a mandala -as a pure … Continue reading
Magic of the Internets
Tonight, another little example of the daily magic the Webs have accustomed us, almost to our taking it for granted. A few days ago, I was happily (and a bit boringly) watching episode 5.2 of Mad Men. The closing credits … Continue reading
Nordic TV Noirs
After quite a while –certainly of laziness due mostly to Twitter– this blog regains consciousness, at last. True, this happens while my arts of teaching are again awakened from the two classes I’m teaching –please, go check Computing Fundamentals, Inf103 … Continue reading