Wireless Spectrum Allocation: The Invisible Puzzle https://tedium.co/2017/05/11/wireless-spectrum-allocation-challenges/

We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us

This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-this-simple-philosophical-puzzle-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-know-something

Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/oliver-stone-deconstructs-putin-an-evil-genius-who-made-history-or-a-shrewd-but-small-minded-apparatchik-writ-large/?curator=MediaREDEF

A puzzle has been solved. Dormant connections light up, sparks fly, the mixture touches off. A new world blooms into being explosively.

While we puzzle together Earth’s fake history and struggle with the Fermi paradox, they watch from afar and howl with inaudible laughter.

The joy of reading Hemingway
Recently, Kent had the misfortune of picking “ A Moveable Feast”, by Ernest Hemingway, for a school assignment. I know I am not the right person1 to judge anyone’s writing style, I am simply recollecting the comments Kent has made while reading the book.

So far, other than finding the book boring — mind it, he is barely 13 — he is puzzled at the use of French terms that he … ⌘ Read more

That 3:00AM call
Comment posted on Larry David: On the Red Phone

“It’s 3AM and your children are sleeping. But the phone is ringing. It’s your mortgage lender, calling to let you know that you are 180 days late on your payment for that crazy mortgage you agreed to. It doesn’t matter, because your phone was disconnected a long time ago. But no worries, Hillary Clinton is working late, at some desk somewhere, doing a Sudoku puzzle … ⌘ Read more

Women of color?
That term, women of color, emphasized by me below has always puzzled me. Aren’t all women and, as a matter of fact, all of us “of color”? What kind of silly (avoiding the use of a stronger word) terminology is that? And, why aren’t those “people of goodwill” asking for the same treatment to be given to rappers, comedians, writers, etc? Utterly stupid.

CBS chairman, Leslie Moonves – “Those who have spoken with us the last few days represent people of goodwill from all segments … ⌘ Read more

Is there any difference?
Is has always amazed me how people or groups of people self segregate, while voicing their concerns about discrimination and inequality.

Some websites have come across lately that really puzzle me. To show a couple, Black Engineer and The Black Collegian. Why? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Are engineers different because of their ethnic background, or because of their field of knowledge? Shouldn’t all Coll … ⌘ Read more