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Do enjoy some reading pleasure before the weekend commences. Does Computer Science Need Computers?, by Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible, by Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine The Restaurant Is...
Last week, the library informed me that my hold on an ice cream maker attachment for my mixer was ready for pick-up from their Library of Things. I have literally no recollection of placing a hold on an ice cream maker. But when life...
We have a brand-new child-financial situation to deal with: what to do, financially, about an adult child who is working full-time and living at home. I will start by telling you what we did about children’s income when the children were...
Charles Bukowski noted that "Only boring people get bored.” It entered popular consciousness when Betty Draper stole the line on Mad Men. It's worth considering the mechanism behind this. I think it reflects a flipped perspective; a...
I stumbled across the dc command, after mistyping cd. It’s a math tool. It’s pretty esoteric in my opinion, but you can switch bases, which means you can do something like convert from a hex color to rgb, albeit digit-by-digit. For...
The Kinks - BBC Sessions 1964-1972 [A Prof Stoned Comp]If your kink is Kinks rarities, well, this one is for you! Prof. Stoned recently unleashed a fairly massive, absolutely crucial overhaul of the band’s BBC sessions from 1964 through...
The Kinks - BBC Sessions 1964-1972 [A Prof Stoned Comp]If your kink is Kinks rarities, well, this one is for you! Prof. Stoned recently unleashed a fairly massive, absolutely crucial overhaul of the band’s BBC sessions from 1964 through...
“There goes the last great American dynastyWho knows, if she never showed up, what could've been …” I’ve become something of a Swifty these last few years, having discovered the singer songwriter during lockdown. And I have to say my...
Poesiola a scopo di archiviazione, non fateci l'abitudine
I have never seen real-time rendering like this in a game. This is what 13 years, "unlimited" money, and Rockstar's developers can do.1 Goodness gracious. I love the clear Die Hard and Heat vibes. The minutia and groundedness reminds me...
Humor, honesty, and kindness. Those are the character traits I value most in my fellow human beings. Funny, honest, and kind. That's how I, and those who knew him, would describe my dad. Today marks three years since he passed away. Even...
I have seen all kinds or people in all kinds of ways, both sick and deceived and lost, searching, waiting, and hoping that somehow the answers to their questions will either come to light or be left elsewhere and unobjectionable.I have...
Matt Moring of Steeger Books posted on Facebook this morning that Will Murray died earlier this week. Will was 73. I’m in shock. Will had been a staple of pulpdom since at least the early 1970s. His was one of the first names I saw among...
I have posted about a few literary societies here and felt a post on several of these would be a good idea. By “literary society,” I mean a group of fans of a particular author or character who have come together in an organization that...
I was rather surprised by this statue in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. The work, made in 1873 by Howard Roberts, a native of Philadelphia, seems an odd way to represent Hypatia of Alexandria, the fifth-century Neoplatonist...