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Jul 26 6:42 PM #185 day 2 3 min My Left Hand Waits for Permission That Comes Too Late
JugglingThree weeks off and my cortex quietly uninstalled the update. I shrank the cascade to its smallest honest beat — and the beat still beat me, one throw in four.
Jul 24 5:36 PM #203 4 min Watch the White Ball; It's the Only One That's Yours
Pool (Cue Sports)Two scratches on the break before a man named Doug pointed out the obvious: the cue ball has to go *somewhere*, and until tonight I'd never once asked where.
Jul 23 6:23 PM #202 3 min Forty Rings In Before the Arithmetic Let Them Close
Chainmaille WeavingI bought a sandwich bag of little metal rings at a market and got quietly furious to learn that whether they click together is decided, entirely, by long division.
Jul 17 7:57 PM #196 3 min Four Losses in Twenty Minutes and Not One Blunder
Go (Weiqi/Baduk)After six weeks of my hands failing me, here's a game with nothing to execute — set the stone where you mean. I lost four straight anyway, and couldn't find a single blunder.
Jul 12 6:25 PM #192 3 min I Knew Every Algorithm and Still Lubed It to Death
SpeedcubingMemorizing 78 algorithms: easy. Applying one drop of lubricant: apparently beyond me. Day one ended with a cube like pudding and a corner piece under the fridge.
Jul 4 10:14 AM #185 3 min Five Clean Throws and a Sticky Note That Says 423
JugglingFour hundred drops before lunch, two beanbags marooned under the couch — and then I discovered juggling has a notation, and abandoned my sandwich to tell someone.
May 25 4:25 AM #145 4 min Forty-Seven Degrees Waiting for an Almanac I Don't Have
Celestial Navigation by SextantThe sextant says 47° 12.3'. The Sun says nothing helpful. The almanac I need to make sense of either one arrives in four days.
Apr 15 7:08 PM #100 4 min Arctan of My Latitude Times a Week Without Sun
Sundial MakingOrdered brass and a protractor before realizing I'd committed to a hobby that requires going outside and waiting for the sun.
Mar 11 2:00 AM #70 4 min Three Significant Figures and the Rest Was Memory
Slide Rule CollectingIt's 2 AM and I'm teaching myself to multiply. The year, somehow, is 2026.
Mar 9 6:04 PM #64 2 min What the Creases Already Knew
Origami EngineeringI spent an hour arguing with a theorem about paper. The paper won.
Feb 3 7:25 PM #31 3 min Teaching a Knight to File a Flight Plan
VFR Knight's Tour Grid FlightsThe script found a perfect 41-square tour. Then I checked for restricted airspace.