Ian Daniel Stewart

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  • AboutThis is the somewhat bookish blog of Ian Stewart. Not the famous mathematician, rock musician, or playwright, but the husband, father, designer, and reader of way too many books. Here you will find his musings on the whole range of his interests; from the highest of edifying heights to the basest vanities. You may find something funny in all of this.
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  • How I Became A Morning Person, Read More Books, And Learned A Language In A Year

    Sharing mostly as a reminder to myself that I can do this. From Belle Beth Cooper who did actually did all those things in that clickbait title. I came across this idea of starting small. The point is to focus on repeating the habit every day, but not worrying about how effective that habit is. […]

    Ian Stewart

    September 26, 2016
  • Getting to Know the Older Brother I Never Knew I Had

    I don’t really share many very “personal life” stories on my blog here but, sorry to spoil the ending, I think this is an exciting and surprising event worth celebrating publicly. 3 months ago, on May 14, my parents let me know I have an older brother. Like, a secret, long lost, older brother. Five […]

    Ian Stewart

    August 19, 2016
  • Seneca on faith in self-improvement 

    I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith. From Seneca’s letter on Reformation in the context of trying to improve, with Stoic advice, a “hardened” forty-year old “past handling.”

    Ian Stewart

    April 23, 2016
  • Seneca on Treacherous Goods

    Fix a limit which you will not even desire to pass, should you have the power. At last, then, away with all these treacherous goods! They look better to those who hope for them than to those who have attained them. If there were anything substantial in them, they would sooner or later satisfy you; […]

    Ian Stewart

    March 5, 2016
  • Literary Theory: Transform and roll out!

    The definition of “Authorial Intention” offered by Google (and the first result if you use “intent” as a keyword instead of “intention”) is from … THE TRANSFORMERS WIKI. The Internet is an amazing place.

    Ian Stewart

    June 23, 2015
  • The Peirce Quincuncial Projection

    In the normal aspect, Peirce’s projection presents the Northern Hemisphere in a square; the Southern Hemisphere is split into four isosceles triangles symmetrically surrounding the first one, akin to star-like projections. In effect, the whole map is a square, inspiring Peirce to call his projection quincuncial, after the arrangement of five items in a quincunx. […]

    Ian Stewart

    May 29, 2015
  • Lives of Jim: a Print and Play Board Game

    The past few days I’ve been working on a print and play board game in the evenings called Lives of Jim. It’s part of a 10-day paper game jam I’m taking part in. You can find Lives of Jim on itch.io if you want to print it out and play it. And the home for […]

    Ian Stewart

    November 9, 2014
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  • Board Game Night

    Next Friday I’ll be putting on a board game night for our neighbourhood youth group of kids around grades 4–7. Of course, I’ve started geeking out about this already. Over the past four or five months I’ve had a lot of fun playing designer board games and building a small collection of great games to […]

    Ian Stewart

    November 7, 2014
  • Arimaa: My current game obsession

    Designed to be impossible for a Deep Blue to beat the best human player but simple enough for a four year old to learn. Playable with a chess board and pieces but it’s not a chess variant. It’s Arimaa. (Pronounced a-ree-muh.) More importantly, it’s fun. Here’s how to play. There’s more at the Arimaa site […]

    Ian Stewart

    October 19, 2014
  • Using the Twenty Fifteen WordPress theme for my blog

    I bugged Takashi so much about the yellow color scheme it’d be pretty embarrassing if I didn’t use it here. I think it’s pretty sharp. And it makes me want to blog more! That’s a good theme design. https://i.cloudup.com/1KUA8BxucY.png

    Ian Stewart

    October 17, 2014
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