Advent-of-code 2021
Using Wolfram Mathematica for this is more satisfying than it should be https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/agam.brahmawolfram/Published/AOC%202021.nb It was shockingly easy to do all this. * REPL/N…
Book store browsing
Saw these in the Amazon Books store we stumbled into for half an hour today. "The Dawn of everything" is the most interesting of this bunch, it seems like a legit re-imagining of pre-histor…
The humor in Radical Candor
(From a recent issue of the Economist)…
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…