The Crooked Castle
Movies:
“American Made” is a significantly fictionalized treatment of the story of Barry Seal, an extremely talented pilot who supplemented his income by smuggling cocaine and taking pictures for the CIA. It’s highly entertaining, though (predictably) it does not end well. We enjoyed it a great deal. Continue reading
Movies and television:
“American Assassin” is a decent by the numbers thriller. It is somewhat hampered by the fact that both the protagonist and the antagonist are very physically similar, and are essentially interchangeable in low light, high speed sequences. There are a LOT of low light, high speed sequences. We liked it well enough anyway. Continue reading
I have been aware, pretty much from the time I knew what “Standard Distribution” was, that dice don’t quite fit the curve. This is apparently because die rolls are so strongly quantized. I have long suspected that, as the number of dice rolled increases, the shape of the result curve gets squarer and squarer. Over the last week or two, in the spirit of “looking busy when I should really being doing something else”, I have done some actual research. Continue reading
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