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Hey, it’s back on! Like as if anyone noticed. The week of no blogging has passed for the annual / well sort of annual Week of only Commenting on Other Blogs, so the posts can come flooding out. I posted Zero posts over the last week and...
Just a picture of the Lot river in the South West of France. It was taken in the small village of Vers.I love living in Japan, but I'm not going to lie, France beats it as far as the beauty of the countryside is concerned. That'
That’s a cello.
DOUG ALLYN “The Hate Tapes.” Published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 2010. Not known to have been collected or reprinted. Murph, the leading protagonist in this all-too-short short story, is the guitarist and lead singer...
I’ve been putting these 100 day updates at the bottom of my regular posts, but I think now that we are at eight habits it can stand as a post on its own.
When Below Deck Down Under ends, we're going right back to Below Deck Med, with Nathan and Joe (ugh) and Gael raising Nathan's kid "nearby" (UGH).
This morning I wrote a post about the probability that a random matrix over a finite field is invertible. If the field has q elements and the matrix has dimensions n × n then the probability is In that post I made observation that p(q,...
Okay, let’s look at a really cute physics demonstration that I found in a really unusual place and which has unexpected connections to optical physics! The demonstration in question is set up as follows: attach a string to a 1 … Continue...
Playing with image processing in Astoria park.
I have been working in an office in my basement. It’s halfway submerged underground in that there’s windows that let me see but most days I don’t see the sun...
Jacob Evans linked to the Apple Blossom post, and mentioned that he has his own Tinderbox everything bucket, called Lifebox. (Which auto-correct insists is lifeboat.) Lifebook would be a good name too, I think. But I get the Tinderbox...
Years after learning about the genre of dark academia and backing this anthology on kickstarter, the time has arrived to read this book. For my particular tastes the stories were a bit uneven. I loved some of them and others I hated....