Some more things to discuss eventually, taken from my offline list of random notions:
- the "Scheme Underground", a semi-disorganized effort to recruit young programmers to the Scheme dialect of LISP
- what's the proper amount of societal investment in science, engineering, art, etc.?
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark's book The Ox-Bow Incident — both excellent and depressing, a mix of pictures and lectures
- some of my old Hypercard stack projects: works of Shakespeare, Roget's Thesaurus, the World Factbook, ...
- the Optical Theorem, relating the imaginary part of the forward scattering amplitude to the total cross section of the scatterer
- the Mormon Temple near where I live, lit up at night: a public statement of belief and beauty — like some web pages?
- Instants and Interrupts: "Rule Cancer" in the fantasy-card game Magic: The Gathering — excessive growth in complexity and resultant fading of fun and playability
- how nice sometimes not to have a car radio (or other distraction), and thus get a chance to actually think once in a while
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