About

A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination; and now his head was full of nothing but enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, complaints, amours, torments, and abundance of stuff and impossibilities. -The History of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, edited by J.W. Clark & illustrated by Gustave Doré

Disorderly Notions is the blog you are currently reading, published pseudonymously under the nom de plume Vivienne del Toboso in the quixotic hope of at least briefly stymieing Internet weirdos and/or malicious fae who seek the author's True Name.

Likely topics of interest include:

Science (general)
Philosophy (general)
Science (extremely specific)
Art (pretentious)
Science (inadvisable)
Gaming (tabletop)
Science (mad)
Magic (stage)
Science (bad)
Philosophy (odious & obscure)
Science (dangerous to know)
Magic (occult)
Science (sufficiently advanced)
Magic (sufficiently analyzed)
The interconnection and interpenetration of all of the above as Indra's Net ensnares the mind and beguiles the spirit
Miscellaneous nerd crap

A note on tone and moderation: there are many places on the Internet which are committed to free speech as a terminal value, to being a stall or square within the marketplace of ideas.

This is not one of them. This space is intended to be something more akin to a porch on which one may sit with friends in the evening light and talk until the night, though young no longer, is aging gracefully.

Consequently, if you give me an offputting vibe, I will press two buttons to make a weird guy go away.

If those terms are acceptable, then pull up a chair and pour yourself a drink^[1]; stay a while and listen to That One Autistic Friend tell you all about her bullshit.

Welcome to Disorderly Notions.
Come freely, go safely, and leave a little of the happiness you bring.

I favor Earl Grey with cream like London fog and a dash of lavender, but if you want something stronger, I shan't judge. ↩︎