Monthly recap (September 2018)
Major updates: * Fun times in Maui! (Spent a lot of time in the pool, half of the road to Hana, small submarine tour(!), a Luau, lots of eating) Minor updates: * Spent most of a week alone with T…
General interesting links: August 2018
Last month’s bunch of interesting links: * A psychedelic temple * William Gibson on recent dystopias * Creating the dreamscapes of Ghost in the Shell * Ted Chiang (of the book behind Arrival) sha…
Monthly recap (August 2018)
Major updates: * Mostly a lot of Tara-related milestones :-) * I quit coffee for a month! (and then went back …) Minor updates: * Tara got a new bike * First board game with Tara * A day at Ha…
General interesting links: July 2018
Last month’s bunch of random stuff: * Predator as an unacknowledged masterpiece Predator * The oldest stone tools outside Africa have been found in … China! * I agree with the rhetorical questio…
Monthly recap (July 2018)
Major updates: * My parents were here for a couple of weeks, we had a mid-week trip to Monterey around 4th July, where we stayed near the beach. Good walks, good food, good fun. * Visited the Legio…
Revisiting blog post categories
I’ve been writing three monthly posts for a while now (a couple of years, maybe?): a monthly summary of what I’ve been up to, and then two sets of “interesting links”. These have been (arbitrarily, t…
Zazzle
I can’t believe I never discovered this before. I am never going to pay for quirky T-shirts or coffee mugs again, I’m just going to make my own! Zazzle.com allows you to upload an image and slap it o…
General interesting links: June 2018
Last month’s bunch of random stuff: * Musical selection for the month #1: an old song with many versions: “The Windmills of Your Mind” * Picked up an interesting graphic novel, a fictionalized acco…
Monthly recap (June 2018)
Major updates: * Re-started my “run every Sunday morning” habit, for the first time since Oct 2016 * Successfully gave up regular coffee drinking after many, many years Minor updates: * Better s…
Programming/Math/Science roundup: June 2018
Somehow, a lot of interesting stuff this month: * For Emacs enthusiasts, version 26.1 is out, with support for generators and threads * A new fundamental particle (?!) * You probably didn’t know t…
Learning about local budgets
On a weekend-stay-over in Monterey recently, I saw some poster mentioning changes in the county budget and realized I had no perspective of the "order of magnitude" of this. Looked it up, a…
On writing with pen and paper
Very quickly: I love Baron Fig notebooks, both the larger, hard-cover Confidant, and the smaller, soft-cover Vanguard. After a few years of trying different styles, I realized I vastly preferred whit…