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## A Website Is More Than a Collection of Pages For a long time, I thought of my website as a place where I published things. That was true, but it was not the whole truth. The site had also become a record of my life: what I had...
Article from Dan Mercer that’s an obvious must-link from this blog. His opener sets the stage: In her book Attention Span, UC Irvine informatics professor Gloria Mark describes a study in which her team shut off email for a group of...
This week is the end of the Yoseka Stationery Fest in Brooklyn and, for many of us, counting down the hours and days until the two largest pen shows in the US — the DC Supershow and the SF Pen Show. As we prepare for the upcoming shows,...
The “Ennui sur Blasé” metro map in The French Dispatch (dir. Wes Anderson, 2021) resembles an NST variant (particularly the “lignes” map displayed in various exhibitions). ▲ The French Dispatch (dir. Wes Anderson, 2021) ▲ The French...
The US unemployment rate was 4.2% in June, which is low by historical levels. Nonetheless, lot of workers, and perhaps expecially young workers right out of college, are experiencing the US economy as a situation where it’s hard to get a...
There were a wide variety of orchid enthusiasts at the Hilo Orchid Show!
Tags: #backpacking #walking #nature #sketches Lost Coast, CA. July 2021.Miles and miles of mountains that fall into the sea, and just a narrow shelf at the edge that is sometimes submerged by the tide. This was a short notice trip, Tony...
photo cred: my dadWe can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are being rewarded for doing the wrong thing. This has become the go-to diagnosis for every problem, from climate change to political polarization to...
[Christ, what assholes.] Thanks to the New York Times for alerting me to something more odious than a yacht: a yacht with a snow room. As the changing climate wreaks havoc on the four seasons, some people with means are fashioning their...
33554432px the maximum value for a CSS length in a layout context. #randomCSSfacts Bramus on Masto
I went to Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve. A rare example of a new nature reserve being retrofitted into suburbia Melbourne. It was previously a golf-course that shut down due to (from what I can tell) not being financially viable anymore....
I have a new app out, VerusCite. With the recent rise in popularity of GenAI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, this has also come along with academics writing slop articles. One of the ways to check that slop is via looking at the articles...
A few days ago I wrote a post on counting rooted trees. That post looked at the sequence c(n) which counts the number of rooted trees with n nodes. Here one node is distinguished as the root, but the nodes below the root are not...
Iris does some really nice things for unifying catalogs, but IMO this key feature is nearly worth the price of admission all by itself.
This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post. I’m now in my third term of music theory. Back in the first term, I created a handy reference sheet for major and minor scales. I just added a new ref sheet for what’s called applied (or secondary)...