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all the code, numeric results and images related to this post are at https://github.com/davidedc/Die-and-matchsticks-simulator Summary The “die and matchsticks” game is presented in Goldratt’s best-seller “The Goal” as an example of subtle unintuitive behaviours of a pretty general “chain of workers” system. As the book analyses […]

…what good is this?

If there was a book to teach me how… ah wait there it is. Be covered for when the wheels of steel get out of control. quack! Looking natural too. broken legs So you can go back roller skating on gravel in the middle of […]

juxtaposition by Sam Cheng

in the “pro” column: “maybe little monkey makes billions”.

…from the “confiscated objects” exposition in the V&A Museum of Childhood

Classy shit, bring your kids.

Let’s have a minute of composure to remember, but also, fuck, £9.99 for The Smurfs 2 ????

“perfect for a harry potter costume, received wand that was not working”

not the cropping you expected

Ngram Viewer – me so silly

look for any item, but in the wrong amazon category

Sean Lee Davies – Pro photographer – cheap camera

Gregory Crewdson vs. real life

March 2013, Various artists.

from the SIGGRAPH 2005 paper ” TextureMontage: Seamless Texturing of Arbitrary Surfaces From Multiple Images”, by Kun Zhou, Xi Wang, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum. link to paper A tiger mapped onto a lioness: …a zebra mapped onto a horse: …a leopard […]

from the SIGGRAPH 2012 paper “Single-View Hair Modeling for Portrait Manipulation”, by Menglei Chai, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, Yizhou Yu, Baining Guo, Kun Zhou. link to paper

Four. Exactly four. More information in the (published!) paper: “Human reliability analysis: A critique and review for managers”

Surfing a couple of Tumblrs, I am an expert on the topic of “the deeply absurd”. Knowledge, meet practice: I recently went to a “Lean Kanban” (it’s a project management thing) conference here in London, which turned out to be a portentous source of fantastic […]

Fair enough.

Is Stephen J. Shanabrook the secret author of the “Black Mirror” series 2 poster?