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The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if you replace...
Three scarce and vulnerable moths of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire landscape, the Four-spotted (Tyta luctuosa), Marsh Carpet (Gagitodes sagittata), and Silver-barred (Deltote bankiana), illustrate an important principle for...
A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML. It was a post mostly about <kbd></kbd> tags, but toward the end I said this: Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too...
"Love isn't a state of perfect caring," wrote Mister Rogers. "It is an active noun like struggle."I hate to quibble with the great man, but love and struggle are also verbs. The English language is already largely comprised of nouns,...
Original post at space • time • tech by Jake. I've been sitting on this post for weeks, but thought it was time to share now. The fragile nature of digital media has been in the news quite a bit recently, and the physical vs. digital...
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys On Sunday, Beatrix will walk out of the arena at Circus Juventas for the last time, and that thought has me up early this morning. It’s not like I did not know it before, but it’s hitting especially hard. Same.
I’m writing this to hold myself accountable as much as anything. To stop me taking the path of least resistance and to be more intentional about what I do next. I have a little breathing space so I don’t need to jump into something to...
As with previous issues, here are scores of photos and links that were left on the cutting room floor during the BLAG 09 edit. The post follows the page order of the magazine, serving as a digital companion to the print publication.Read...
I’m working on a big project around the Oscars, and it's revealing just how sparse the research landscape is on Oscar voters. For example, there is only one reliable source for the average age of Oscar voters. In 2012, the Los Angeles...
Believe it or not, doll cakes can be tricky! Observe:Stick the doll in too low, and she looks like she's being swallowed: Too high, and she's being abducted by aliens: Not to mention there's all that pesky "understanding how a doll cake...
I came across a snippet of an old Kobe Bryant interview and I felt like I had to share it: Interviewer: There's players who love to win and players who hate to lose. Which one are you? Bryant: Neither. I play to figure things out. I play...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)When I think of BENU, I think of bright colors,...
Starting the month with 100 degree days certainly is a miserable way to kick things off. On the upside, the Dungeon Dwellers RPG kickstarter arrived. Nice big box of new minis to paint and rules to read! Did I actually do any of that? A...
July was a VERY busy month. This month I ricocheted from the city of Prague to the lavender fields of Provence to the green cliffs of Ireland to a concert swelling with thousands of people in bald caps to my favorite island in Italy....
Introduction There’s one piece of audio gear I miss, it is my Technics SL-J33 turntable. I guess technically now it is considered vintage audio gear since it was produced in the 1980s. And, I would hazard a guess, that if you are used to...