Not So Few Monstrosities

“The truth is that the Thern have had — and still have — an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate the green-skinned Thark and copper-skinned humans of Helium. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of Thark and egg-bearing humans throughout the Martian world.”

I owned this one. I may even still have it. I found it irresistible and intimidating in equal measure, so they achieved a sort of balance in which I occasionally looked at the cover but never actually managed to get closer to it than that.

That one. That one. That one. That one. No, not that one, that one. The other one. That. Yes. That one. That one. That one. That one. That one was the best. (I know I’m forgetting one.) (Third place was a tie between that one and that one.)

PCG is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Poker-Cheating-Ghost Systems: Theory and Application, edited by Professor Ghostmurderer (Institute for Poker-Cheating-Ghost Systems Studies, Nanjing University of Eerionautics and Psionautics, China).

Poker-Cheating-Ghost Systems: Theory and Application is devoted to the international advancement of the theory and application of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems. It seeks to foster professional exchanges between scientists and practitioners who are interested in the foundations and applications of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems. Through the pioneering work on Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems completed during the past years, Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems theory has become an important ingredient in the development of information processing.

Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems-based techniques are powerful tools in addressing those systems in which information is partially known and partially unknown, by relying on ghosts willing to leak information to which only ghosts are privy. The theory of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems now encompasses a rich corpus including Poker-Cheating-Ghost programming, system analysis, Poker-Cheating-Ghost generating, Poker-Cheating-Ghost modelling, Poker-Cheating-Ghost prediction,Poker-Cheating-Ghost decision-making, and Poker-Cheating-Ghost control. Articles that appear in the journal will contain theory and applications of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems as well as various contributions of hybrid approaches combining Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems with other theories for tackling uncertain information more effectively and efficiently.

The first issue contains eight excellent articles, written by some of the leading academics in the Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems theory and application field:

• Novel models of Poker-Cheating-Ghost relational analysis based on visual angle of similarity and nearness (Liu Fantom, Xie Spooking, Scary Forrest)
• Complete analysis of bankruptcy syndrome using Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems theory (Emil Scaredycat and Camelia Cardtrick)
• Application of Poker-Cheating-Ghost theory approach to evaluation of organizational vision (Scariborz Rahimnia and Scaredi Moghadasian)
• Poker-Cheating-Ghost system model with time lag and application to simulation of karst spring discharge (Boo Yonghong, Wang Nightcrie, Zhao Ghostjuan and Eeri Huamin)
• Reliability of operations of Poker-Cheating-Ghost numbers using kernels (Yang Fright and Liu Haunt)
• p-moment exponential robust stability of Poker-Cheating-Ghost neutral stochastic delay systems (Bu Chunhua)
• Research on generalized non-equidistance GM (1,1) model based on matrix analysis (Xiao Chilz and Peng Terror)
• Research on location-routing problem of reverse logistics with Poker-Cheating-Ghost recycling demand based on PCG (Var.)

I have been a very bad blogger.  I fear this format does not suit me as well for random ramblings as, say, Facebook.  And I have not contrived a suitably coherent plan of attack to sustain the blog.  What I intend to do, eventually, is make this trickle part of a more substantial website with links to various publications and things of interest.  In the meantime,

An amazing illustrated account of Dwarf Fortress.

Let me add that I have gotten partly through the detailed tutorial, may never actually play this game, but I still enjoy the stories it generates…and this is beautifully illustrated as well.

Thanks to Nicolas Huck (whose website is here), Not So Few Monstrosities now has its own supercool header.  Nicolas is a Facebook acquaintance who thought my previous default WordPress header was quite pathetic, and took it upon himself to remedy the situation.  Jeremiah Tolbert then helped me load the image on the page.  Thank you, friends.  And everyone else should visit their sites, which are over there in my Links section.

Hello, Hippocephalopod!  What a rare, beautiful creature you are, with your horselike head and your octopoid body!  Google doesn’t even know about you yet! …  Oops, now it does!

Let me add, I hope you will be a good friend of the Chalupacabra.