On the space dog
From an article in the New Yorker reminiscing about Laika: But the story of Laika had a dark lie at its core.a space coffin turned shooting star…
Monthly recap (October 2017)
Some ups and downs this month … leaving out some things. One surprisingly good movie I saw this month was “Never let me go”, based on a book by the recent Nobel-prize winner, Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s alr…
Adventures with exhaust fans
This might be downright trivial for a lot of people, but it was an ”Achievement Unlocked” moment for me. There was a Nutone exhaust fan in our bathroom that was really loud, as in louder than any sou…
Sci/Math/Prog Summary: October 2017
Interesting stuff from the past month: * I feel the old “static typing vs dynamic typing” debate has gotten more nuanced recently with ‘spec’ and ‘schema’ in Clojure (i.e. better, fine-grained, runt…
On Robot Overlords
Extract from a recent New Yorker story, "Welcoming our new robot overlords" beep-beep-whooshA decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers—those who remain—ass…
Where can I get these alphabet blocks? :-(
I had bought some blocks a couple of years ago (too early!) and now that Tara’s going to be three, dusted them off to really use them for alphabets instead of just "blocks for a tower". Of…
Media Summary: September 2017
 Some interesting links for the month: * This right here is just … one of those things I can’t believe I hadn’t seen yet: a “breaking the fourth wall” sketch on Saturday Night Live about “The last…
Monthly recap (September 2017)
(nothing much happened this month) Minor updates: * Went to Barnes and Noble with Tara for the first time (fun!) * Zume pizza party with our ex-neighbors * Meeting some friends * Kick-started jo…
The bug count also rises
This is amazingly funny, so I just had to reproduce it. Highlighted my favorite bits ... enjoy! Many days he stood for a long time and watched the rain and the shuttles and drank his double-tall moch…
Sci/Math/Prog Summary: September 2017
Fun stuff from the past month … * Blast from the past: a “Unix logo contest”, twenty years ago, that was in turn celebration thirty years of Unix. * A “less massive” black hole right next to the su…
Media Summary: August 2017
Some interesting links for this month: * To start with, a great clip from Moby Dick (the 1956 movie with Gregory Peck) * A story with a self-descriptive headline: “When Silicon Valley Took Over Jou…
Monthly recap (August 2017)
Highlight: Went for a 5K run. Very slow, and a sore afterwards, but the first run of any sort after a year. Minor updates: * Tara’s daycare was closed for three days, and we went to Happy Hollows…