Monday, 9 November 2026

8x8 (13. 959)

level 42: the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything—see also here and here and here  

aftermath: Return of the Living Dead cast aghast at AI generated sequel that zombified their likenesses 

the only way out is through: Americans cannot simply undo Trumpism  

the ship of gold: a coin from the sunken steamer whose loss set off the first global financial panic and fuelled the American civil war—an artefact from A History of the United States in 100 Objects—see previously  

matriculation: the incoming Democrat class at the US senate 

1up: after four decades of adventures, former opponents help an elderly Mario complete a level 

red planet: the 1951 release Flight to Mars  

peridromophilataly: collecting of train-tickets and/or streetcar transfers, coined by William James Sidis—under the pseudonym Frank Folupa in his 1925 work The Animate and thee Inanimate, speculating on the origin of life through the lens of thermodynamics—whom had the highest IQ ever registered at two hundred fifty four