Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bridge Games for DOS: A Look Back
Way before more than 70% of computers in the world were powered by Windows, the default option was DOS. This might give away my age, but I have plenty of great childhood memories of the operating system: Getting to know command line programming, firing up either Pac-Man or Tetris – and then subsequently developing nightmares…
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A perfect Yarborough
Yarborough: A hand containing no card higher than a nine. Harold was bored. All evening he got terrible cards, he did not get to declare a single hand. His lovely partner tried to cheer him up: “Unlucky in cards means Lucky in love”, she said with an encouraging smile. Harold didn’t find that comforting. He was…
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Agatha Christie’s Bridge Game
Agatha Christie was born as Clarissa Agatha Miller, and having taken her first husband Archibald’s surname, she completed her first detective novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” in 1916. It was only published four years afterwards after six rejections, introducing Detective Poirot in the second chapter. Before this, Christie was a nurse – and little…
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