Thursday, November 09, 2023

Ensign Rod index

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Years ago, i wrote a seven part set of very short related stories. Part zero was rejected. The publisher wanted action, not set up. Part one...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

The golang tutorials

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 I started learning Google's computer language "go" (also called golang, likely due to how easy it is to search for "go...
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Monday, January 11, 2021

JOKER

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One of the things i'd like to find out from a movie review is if i'll like the movie, but if at all possible, without learning the e...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Resume

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I've never rejected anyone on the basis of their resume. First, especially my early resumes were retyped by the agency, and all sorts ...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Popups

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I've been looking for stuff on the Internet. Gasp. Using a search engine. I'm going to many, many sites i don't usually go to. A...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Steven Pinker and the Ivy League School

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I nearly didn't read this article , because i haven't read Deresiewicz’s article . And, Deresiewicz’s article doesn't sound like...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Management and The Art of War

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In Sun Tzu's The Art Of War , one of the lessons is that a good strategy involves teaching your staff good tactics, then using the good ...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Edmunds on fuel economy

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Edmunds has done a fairly complete set of tests of fuel economy in a sort of Myth Busters way. They mostly match my own results. I use cru...
Monday, February 24, 2014

technology

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I have a land line for a phone. I often get messages on my answering machine where the automated message machine gets the complete message o...
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Caffeine: last part with any luck

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Last May, my left shoulder started hurting really bad. I recognized the symptoms. I had them in 2001 , though in my right shoulder. Back the...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Engines Under Ursus, SciFi podcast review

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I've been listening to Engines Under Ursus , by Marin Brady. I've just finished the 26 episodes i had downloaded. There are at lea...
Monday, December 02, 2013

What's your biggest weakness?

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Interviewer: What is your biggest weakness? Candidate: I'm too honest. Interviewer: I don't think that's a weakness. Candidat...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Passwords

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I recommend making up a sentence. Start from a movie or book. Summarize an idea. Then maybe substitute a number for a letter. o, q => 0, ...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Fire or Ice

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The question was When is the end of the world? Robert Frost had it right. In five billion years or so, the Sun will grow into a Red Gian...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

A moving experience

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When i was in high school, one of my class mates said that he'd only been out of town once. That's when he was born. And that's ...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Something odd

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What if we discovered something odd by accident. If boys between the ages of 9 and 13 are starved (not to death, just reduced food intake), ...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Movies

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I read this bit about ants and immediately thought of how people pick movies. Movies are a great example. People see the trailers, and ei...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Google Reader Goes Away

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As you may know, Google Reader is set to disappear on July 1st. I (finally) transferred my subscriptions. It took longer than i expected, an...
Friday, June 14, 2013

How far can the Sun be seen?

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How far away from the Sun can you just barely see the Sun (using Wikipedia)? The Sun is magnitude -26.74 (from Wikipedia ). The dimmest star...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Garnet

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Never saw the web magazine The Shallot before. Of particular note is the announcement of a new programming language: Garnet . This is the v...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Eight Queens part one

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Eight Queens part one                                                                                                   Q           ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Eight Queens part zero

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How many queens can be put on a chess board where none of them are attacking any others? A chess board has eight by eight squares. A queen ...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Crimson

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It was mostly clear last night. I thought it might be fun to see if i could find R Laporis, also called Hind's Crimson Star. Though visi...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Forth for Enlightenment, part thirteen of ten, Primes too

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In part nine we had an introduction to testing if a number is prime. A function to check for primality was presented. It's short and to...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Forth for Enlightenment, part twelve of ten, Four Digit Puzzle

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This is another number based logic puzzle. It can be solved without a computer. It's not difficult. The mostly brute force coded solutio...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Forth for Enlightenment, part eleven of ten, Number Problem Nine

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Forth for Enlightenment, part eleven of ten, Number Problem Nine I came across this logic problem. It uses numbers. I was able to solve it ...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Forth for Enlightenment, part ten of ten, local variables and loop exit

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If you've been following this blog for a while, then you'll recall that i described a series of programs for a 1986 calculator, th...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

What works in education - round up at Smithsonian

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The Smithsonian has a series of articles on Finnish education. It starts by comparing Finnish education to 9/11 . Really, it came without an...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Bowling a Perfect Game

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The gang at work did a team build thing. We went to a local bowling alley to shoot the breeze, eat pizza, and bowl a few games. I'd spr...
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