Life

Sometime ago I heard a factoid that children had to learn more and more planets in school until we finally discovered that those things were not planets. It was probably from a CGPGrey video.

I am not talking about sci-fi as we often picture it today as anything containing space-travel, advanced technology or aliens, rather it often doesn’t feature aliens at all.

From the artwork Merlin by Earl Norem, to countless random beastiary entries in adventure books, wizards tend to have a few forms.

While they may have a mild style like so, they are often depicted in a sort of whimsical little robe, with a single bright colour, often blue, and adourned with little white stars, or in more conservative robes a singular crescent moon on their pointy hat. So, today I asked myself, what’s up with that? Where did it come from? What does it symbolize?

Quite some time ago (probably years) I had this strange urge to test out IPFS, obviously in legal ways and so I wondered what could be shared on it…

When somebody asks me for my favourite fact, I tend to pull out a very old one I heard and factchecked a long time ago:

Did you know that the World War I Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919, also dictates what Concert Pitch Germany has to tune to?

Let’s go ahead and fact check it again, this time with a paper trail… byte trail.

Literally just read Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!, it’s a great series with a great world. Surprisingly what I love basically the most out of all the characters and places is that basically every one of them will try to screw you over.

A few years back, our teacher told us that we’d be playing a game, which involved having imaginary states solve disputes. And so we were to think up these states, when I get a project, I either spend no time at all on it, or a huge ton, so I came back with a short constitution, a flag, an anthem, some cultural events, and most importantly now, a calendar.…

Let’s talk a bit about psychology, many of you might’ve heard about Synesthesia, it’s when someone has two senses somewhat connected/mixed.