Thursday, April 30, 2015

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Monstrous Moonshine

South St. Paul wetland
Game Night gets lost in the woods of South St. Paul

Continuing the night's discussion on the nature of reality, something about an unexpected connection between the algebraic monster group and the j-function:
Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow

Apparently much of this is the gift of the Hindu goddess Namagiri Thayar via the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan:
"While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing." 

Now if you can follow this you will probably still have trouble following the rules for this:



Which didn't stop this guy from getting his femme fatale.

Dennis and his Femme Fatale


Goes t' show what uh moon can do

CIA Man!


Who can kill a general in his bed?
Overthrow dictators if they're Red?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can find a counter-agent quick?
Especially the ones, themselves, of it?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!


Who can plan a riot in Vietnam?
Who can have the troops restore the calm?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!


Who can buy a government so cheap?
Change a cabinet without a squeak?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can get a budget that's so great?
Who will be the 51st state?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!


Who has got the secret-est Service?
The one that makes the other service nervous?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can cypher anything with zeros?
Not well known, but simply worth the heros.
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can take the sugar from its sack
Pour in LSD and put it back?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can squash republics like bananas?
Simply if they do not like their social manners?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can train guerrillas by the dozens?
Send them out to kill their untrained cousins?
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!

Who can mine the harbors Nicaragua?
Out hit all the hitmen of Chicag-ua.
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!


Who can be so overtly covert?
Sometimes even covertly overt.
Fucking-a man!
(Fucking-A! C-I-A!)

CIA Man!


Who's the agency well-known to God?
The one that copped his staff and copped his rod?
Fucking-a man! CIA Man!
Fucking-a man! CIA Man!
Fucking-a man! CIA Man!
CIA Man! CIA Man!
CIA Man! CIA Man!
CIA Man!

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Once Upon a Time in the West

I used to believe in many things, all of it! Now, I believe only in dynamite. - Duck You Sucker!
Bang!


You think you're pretty tough, don't ya, son? I never knew a gunslinger yet so tough he lived to celebrate his 35th birthday. I learned one rule about gunslingers. There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man. - Gunfight at O.K. Corral
Lawmen


Hey, sheriff, you forgot your pants. - Rio Bravo
Lawmen 2


Him not like other outlaws we chase. Him use foreign tricks. - The Lone Ranger
Outlaw

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Raymond Scott and His Quintet - Ali Baba Goes to Town - 1937 - Twilight in Turkey


Invite Your Friends

Invite Your Friends: A Board-Game Adventure
Experience the excitement of playing a board game in this incredibly accurate simulation of what it’s like to be a board-game player. First, struggle to establish an elusive Quorum of Players. Then, use your Player token to place your player’s Tokens on the board’s Board while you roll dice to gain your player Points and spend points to determine your player’s Dice Rolls. Features exquisitely detailed fractal miniatures. Winner is the winner who Wins without making the other Players decide never to play board games ever again.