mradot's blog
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in Personal
On Books
For a while now I’ve been having spells of nostalgia for childhood. It’s been made worse by all the old school-mates I’ve been running into recently. (Sorry I couldn’t remember your names in time, all…
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in Essays
On Being Funny
According to the plan, this blog was supposed to be funny. I know. It’s very hard, trying to be witty. I might have some success if I took my time, but this is supposed to be…
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in Writing
Story: Rest (A Fragment)
A regular person would say it was a nice town. The capital city was arranged to make regular people think this. Everything was arranged along the main street from the airport to the economic…
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in Essays
On the Economy
Two days ago, in terms of population, the world’s second-largest economy was four times the size of the largest. Even now, though China has overtaken the USA, there hasn’t really been any change…
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in Essays
On Meekness
“When I was green and blossomed in the SpringI was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.” Allen Grossman. I saw these words a couple of weeks ago. The poem didn’t connect with me, but I thought…
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in Essays
On the Brokenness of Things
Once in a while you happen to see some random commonplace thing without the filter of your experience, and it looks all wrong. It happens quite often with words- all of a sudden the spelling…
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in Art
Picture: Iqbal Masih, Legend
The Legends idea started as a cool concept for t‑shirts. I wanted to celebrate the children who have transcended society’s perceptions in the most uplifting and useful ways. I might still do that, but for now…
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Discovery: xkcd – The Pace of Modern Life
I just found this on xkcd. (Many an hour spent there, oh yes.) The actual image is very long, with sampled opinions stretching down to our current day. I’m not sure if the author…
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in Essays
On Noise
Space. The trotros have got me thinking about space a lot these days. Stars are in space. Stars are balls of fire. There are as many of them as there are grains of sand on…