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The Game of Life

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.10.11

We played The Game of Life today. It was probably my first time in forty years. No one had read the directions very well, but we all "retired". Whatever that means, some kind of 20th Century thing I think. The Boy started twenty minutes late and somehow edged me by a mere $30k. And yes, that's how the game is all about: racking up cash.

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke