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…
Spending time, sharing time
When you hear the phrase “lost technology”, you tend to think of something mysterious from millennia ago. However, as I discovered from “Einstein’s clocks, Poincaré’s maps”, even just a century ago,…
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Playing with “marbling paint” with my daughter…
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Ancient Amazonian lived in densely populated cities (!) www.nationalgeographic.com/history/a...…
Monthly Curations- Jun 2022
(As before, simply lifted from my tagged Micro.blog posts, and, I realize, heavily skewed this month towards specific themes) A minimalist scheme (R4RS, and fits in 4K of memory) Lisp in the browser…
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Seen at a new bookstore I found:…
“Don’t teach coding!”
(“… until you read this book)” One of a spate of really good Racket books: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Don%27t+Teach+Coding%3A+Until+You+Read+This+Book-p-9781119602637 Clear, straightforward chapte…
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Bagels, cream cheese, honey. That’s it.…
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www.zumbarcoffee.com/collabora...…
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Quote by James Clear > "Formal education is not nearly as important as an unquenchable thirst to learn."…