Craig Maciolek

  • Pattern Recognition

    I keep getting locked out of Twitter.“Suspicious Login Blocked.”I only ever log in from one place,and two step verification.No evidence of the account being hacked.A primitive way to manage social media?Not that I am at all influential. Trying to push… Continue reading

  • An Artist’s Journey

    If you were placed in the middle of a vast desert, not able to see anything in any direction, and no knowledge of the geography to determine which direction was best to reach safety, how would you act? Everyone would… Continue reading

  • From One-Liners to Philosophy

    For a long time I had the opinion that a philosopher was nothing more than a comedian who no longer cared about getting laughs or being the center of attention. Lately I have come to see this perspective as an… Continue reading

  • Mythology

    Every now and then I like to use a graph of some sort to augment what I am writing about. Unfortunately, these graphics take me forever to make because they occur so infrequently I can never remember how I made… Continue reading

  • Children Have No Boundaries

    Sitting back and relaxing, watching a football game with a friend. I don’t care about the game, or the sport, much less either of the teams,.. but my friend is an ardent fan of one team playing. As a casual… Continue reading

  • Parasitic Industries

    A Fractal Thought Exercise Imagine a professional sports industry whose league executives decided that it was beneficial to all if they manipulated the games to be more entertaining. They would do this by having the referees call fouls, or not… Continue reading