On Saturday the 28th of December, I participated with some friends and family in an online quiz. A local organisation arranged a quiz for local teams. All teams got a care package and tuned in to a specific YouTube channel at the right time. As always, the objective of the quiz is to get as … Read more
Last week, I was thinking about the fact that language is basically just a permutation of a set of characters. The way that we use these characters, gives meaning and concept to the figures. That’s where the monkeys and typewriter conundrum comes from. If you give it enough time, theoretically, all books will be written. … Read more
Hello, dear weird, funky, creative, smart and wonderful person. In the last few weeks I’ve been working behind the scenes on the next steps for this book. But sometimes, before you can go forward, you have to go back. Due to a laptop issue, I lost my base Excel file with all the counted characters. … Read more
Hello to my fellow imgurians. To celebrate our hobbies, I made a little post about it here: Enjoy. For those that don’t know what I’m talking about. Imgur is a community platform that revolves around sharing images. (mostly memes and pets). Like most of it’s userbase, I got there through reddit. The community is a … Read more
Why do I keep collecting letters?
A few years ago, my mother had a brain aneurysm, which left her partially handicapped. It had a few effects physically, but the main effect is cognitive. Where she used to have 5 synonyms for a word, now, only two are left. This is extremely frustrating of course, because she knows what she wants to … Read more
While we were in the communal library a while ago, my lovely wife suggested that the book could have a place here. So, a little apprehensive I went to the librarian and explained in a minute or two what the book was about. The curious look on her face told me more than even a … Read more
I’m happy to announce a new version of the rearranged book. It’s the same content as v1.1 but the content in mirrored. Thanks to my wife for inspiring this version. For the moment it’s not yet on sale, but you can download complete content here. So let’s analyse this for a second. As usual, this … Read more
In the context of communication, there are a lot of factors. The most simple equation is the following: Effective communications = {sender x message x receiver} / context A significant part of the context is language. You can see it as the codec that we use to convey or ideas to others. So when you … Read more