User:Spencerk

I am a software developer from Toronto, Canada.

Ambitious failures

• Bailey–Johnson 150-metre race
• Up Series
• Ski ballet
• History of natural language processing
• The stability of the solar system
• Pop music automation
• Simulated growth of plants

Historic Ontario

• Midhurst
• Elmvale
• Victoria steamboat, John B. King Explosion
• Molsons Park

Ironic History

• No fear
• Hard Copy
• Adbusters
• Hooters#Legal_issues
• Split (gymnastics)
• If a tree falls in a forest
• Musical plagiarism
• High-G training

Criticism and existence

• Skeptical hypothesis
• Fideism
• Cool (aesthetic)
• Infant cognitive development
• postmodernism#Philosophical Movements and contributors
• Cognitive closure (philosophy)
• Argumentum ad populum
• Here is a hand
• Paradox of hedonism
• Self-immolations in protest to the Vietnam War
• Criticism of marriage
• Pessimism
• Representative realism, Primary/secondary quality distinction
• Deathbed conversion
• Meaning (existential)

I write articles about sad things in history.

Historical enthusiasm

• Balloon release
• Ceremonial ship launching
• Royal Cinema, Eglinton Theatre, Barrie Uptown Theater

Unspoken infrastructure

• Police strike
• Dump fire
• Clifford Cocks
• Water supply terrorism

Intimacy

• Staring, winking, eye contact
• hedgehog's dilemma
• Self-consciousness, self awareness
• History of masturbation

Supernatural and unlikely

• Bicameral mentality
• Slow light
• Chemical Oscillator
• David Phillips (entrepreneur)
• Psychic Staring Effect
• Recovery from blindness
• Biological timeline of radiation poisoning ‎
• Notable dreams throughout history

Iraq

• 2003 invasion of Baghdad, Damage to Baghdad
• Saddam Hussein's novels
• February 2003 Saddam Hussein interview
• Iraq Stock Exchange, Economic reform of Iraq
• Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes
• Motivations of the September 11 attacks

Boring books with nice names

• Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air
• On Divination in Sleep

Animals + meaning

• Swimming#Non-aquatic animals
• Dogs Playing Poker
• Horse diving
• Clever Hans
• Blind animals
• Seismic communication