Random excerpts from "Godzilla, Singular point"
Presented entirely context-free (from episode 11) but even so, hopefully demonstrates that this isn't "just another anime" or "just another monster flick" :-)…
"On Cyberspace"
Warning: From 1995 (25 years ago!) Today the term "cyberspace" sounds silly (perhaps "internet culture" comes closest) but here's a 10-min clip of Neil Postman talking about i…
Notebook requirements
Here's what I want from a paper notebook: * Tomoe River Paper (with an exception for Midori MD) * Grid (i.e. not plain pages, not lined pages) * Page numbers (a new addition) * Size (A5 or A6…
Reviving Urbit
I said I'd look into Urbit. Going through old email, it turns out I had actually mentioned this .... seven and a half years ago. I'm shocked, I have no memory of this, lol. My old blog-post…
Space, science, progress, hope
We were eating in a cafe that had a 50s-60s theme and had this front page of the LA Times from 1961 on the day Alan Shepard became the first American in space. I didn't do a good job of taking th…
On a Soundtrack coincidence and some books
I happens to be listening to the Braveheart soundtrack recently, a few days ago, and I can say I haven't heard it anywhere else, in the last two decades. Today while we were in Lahaina, near the…
System of the Sun
This is not running a very localized observation (I've noticed this both where I stay in the south bay area, and also during our recent short trip to Hawaii), but still: among the bright objects s…
"Digits of Pi"
Saw a recent post on how "digits of Pi add up to 666" and decided to investigate. These days I'm finding Mathematica super-useful for stuff like this, so: That does NOT add up. But th…
Farmer's Almanac
I don't know why I do it, exactly, but I started this five years ago and it's just "something I do" now. I buy the Farmer's Almanac for the year. It has zero practical necessit…
The state of scheme
I check out the "Scheme universe" every couple years or so, and it's a big and varied place now! I was aware of "Guile and Chicken" a decade ago. Since then: * Chez was ope…
Monthly recap (Oct 2021)
Major update * Halloween trick 'n' treating (after a lull last year) Minor updates * Weekend trip to Santa Cruz (again) * My grandfather passed away (will write more about this soon) *…
Monthly recap (Sep 2021)
Major update * Weekend trip to Santa Cruz Minor updates * Finished a (sixth) 1000-piece puzzle * Had a family "no phone day", which went well * Bunch of dental stuff * Walked to the…