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Shakespeare Programming Language
The scary thing about this is that Measure for Measure actually compiles…
Set theory! Comics! Sex!
xkcd, obviously. I’m looking forward to a Scarygoround story featuring Zorn’s lemma.
?You?ll do, I suppose??
Once, over a decade ago, I dismayed a group of women friends who were discussing their aspirations for relationships and marriage partners by saying that what I wanted was to find someone I could more or less bear to live with and start a family with them. They assumed I was being flippant, and when [...]
Pler-tonk
Emmy Hennings, I could kiss you. With chaste and comradely enthusiasm. On days when I am feeling kind towards myself I like to think that perhaps my close friendships with men, which I reckon beyond value, have something to do with an internal resistance that I have tried to cultivate to the dynamic of objectification. Yes, exactly. [...]
You Will Never Dream
How Ballardian is this?
Tenby
A week in Tenby, one of the loveliest places in Wales.
Thunk tanks
List of think tanks in the United Kingdom Of these, the Centre for Policy Studies has probably had the most profound (and malign) impact. Certainly such bodies can make a difference; the question is, how might one make a positive difference?
On your marks, get set?
?When I think back to when I first started teaching A-level 15 years ago, I realize that my lessons were a great deal more creative and exploratory and, as a result, fostered more intelligent, original and crafted responses. In recent years my lessons have consisted solely of exam practice: training pupils to answer the question. Of [...]
Augmented sixths
I don?t know what you got in your A-levels, if you happened to take any, but I got two As and a B (English, History and Music). I?m not telling you this because I expect you to give a flying toss, but because it partly explains why the news that one in ten of those [...]
Roman Way
All roads, howsoe’er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home - Ambrose Bierce Thanks to Lawvere, the first thing I thought of on reading this was terminal objects (line 1) and elements (line 2).

This is the website of Dominic Fox, a writer, musician and working programmer living in Northampton in the UK.

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