Monthly recap -- May 2022
Major update(s) * Parents visiting for a couple of weeks, fun times Minor update(s) * Resolved an issue with IRS (have to write about this later) * Failure: gave Tara non-gluten-free pizza, wit…
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Bird feeder getting some use.…
Egregore
I've been "on the internet" for about two-and-a-half decades now, and ... I like to think that I've seen it all. Still, these are strange times. Neologisms abound. Confusion reigns.…
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Gin and tonic with grapefruit…
A quote for many moments
“And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher” From Moby Dick…
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Avoiding conflating simplicity and size, in programming languages: arrdem.com/2022/07/0...…
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From 1997, Python presented as the "best among 5": web.archive.org/web/20040...…
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A pretty good "Scheme primer": spritely.institute/static/pa...…
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Yup, we watched it this weekend, had some weird buts but pretty enjoyable overall.…
In praise of used books
I have spoken on you of how I used to frequent a store nearby, in Mountain View (“Book Buyers“), and how they relocated away a few years ago (more recently, they shut down that location, and sold of i…