dan's blog
This is my web log, where I write stuff.
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Shakespeare quote
Saturday, April 23, 2022
the worship of revenge
Saturday, December 25, 2021
chess axioms
when attacked on the wing, open the center.
a flank attack is best met by a reaction in the center.
the longer it takes to win, the more difficult it is to win.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Should I participate in social media?
Should I participate in social media? Should I engage with it, spend my time on it, pay attention to it? What is it? The gibbering of millions of chimps, extorting me with their dumb ideas. Now I am one of these chimps as well, begging for attention, spewing forth nonsense, unwelcome and unasked, unto an apathetic non-audience of imaginary people. Yet here I am, and here it is, a collection of half-wit words, tapped carefully on a keyboard, a non-message, a scream into the void. Here I am! Here I am! Look at me! Aging, stupid, making no progress, unheard, unseen! Should I participate in social media?
Of course. And here I am. This thing unposted will be cut. It will then be pasted! To multiple platforms! A platform, like the trapeze platform. I am ready to do my tricks. Now can I say something outlandish? Something controversial and new? Of course not. For if an infinity of monkeys on an infinity of typewriters can accidentally reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare word-for-word, then with the Internet, everything has been said, whether it should have been said or no.
These are the words that I have typed. If you are reading this, I have participated in social media. Should I participate in social media?
This was a writing exercise. Should I participate in social media?
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Shakes gonna Shake
Saturday, December 04, 2021
In Hamlet, Shakespeare accidentally described the Internet
In Hamlet, Act 4 Scene 5, a GENTLEMAN describes Ophelia’s madness to the Queen.
One might also imagine he describes the Internet:
"... speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;
Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures
yield them,
Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily."
Saturday, November 20, 2021
book quotes
About Me

- dan
- I am the author of 5 books: Android Down, Firewood for Cannibals, The Cubicles of Madness, Robot Stories, and most recently, Various Meats and Cheeses. I live and write in Michigan. My website is at danmanning.com