Last night at Liffey Toastmasters table topics I was invited to respond to the prompt, “Say if you can ask nature one question and get a definite answer, what would your question be?” Thematically, the evening gathering was titled “0th Law of Robotics” with a tint of discussion over trends in AI and thinking machines (Herbert). This is the flushed out version of my response for the record.
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[Photo Journal Spotlight] Frankfurt Airport Flip Card Boards
I’ve passed FRA quite a few times now but until this trip my 300mm lens was always in the checked baggage.
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[Photo Journal Spotlight] Experimental Photos of the Eiffel Tower and Its Flickering
… of various levels of sophistication. Thanks to other tourists on the evenings of 5 and 6 June 2026 for letting me stay longer than average on the axis of symmetry.
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Photographie © 2026 FWPhys · LUX. Partagée à des fins non commerciales. Les illuminations nocturnes de la Tour Eiffel sont une œuvre protégée (© SETE).
Photograph © 2026 FWPhys · LUX. Shared for non-commercial purposes. The Eiffel Tower’s nighttime illuminations are a protected work (© SETE).
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[Archive] FW’s 2013 Three-Line Love Letters
Around October 2013 Shandong Exp. High School ran a three-line love letter competition … it’s still a popular format of literature in East Asia today. The following images were my entries, recovered from a 2014 backup hard drive, which I am currently exploring before its retirement.
Over the next weeks I will attempt to remake them (alongside the English translations) with my since-evolved typographical style.
Chronologically, during the summer holiday before, I’d discovered Space Engine 0.97, and you can see it bleeding into these, and working its way to inspire an eventual physicist’s imagination.
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Rainy Road Found Prose – 15
(Well muddy is a kind of rainy-adjacent condition; and it’s not a poem but a prose this time.)
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Back in the Funfactory
On the occasion that I am turning 28, I look back at the chapter of my life when I was a player and modder of games by Synetic: The Funfactory, a small German studio that, without meaning to, taught me to be a designer of cars, a scientist, and, somehow, a resident of Germany.
(Cover screenshot: a modded “Excellence” / [unlicensed Aston Martin Vanquish with a Jaguar face] in front of the alpine observatory in Crash Time 5: Undercover. Taken in 2016)
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Yourong Frank Wang 