On history and progress
From https://www.city-journal.org/lionel-trillings-warning…
Deja Vu
From an article in Wired Magazine, in 1995 - Today's Next Big Something is so wrapped in hype it's tough to see what's really going on. And as the hype solidifies into conventional wisdom…
Generally interesting links - May 2021
(not a lot this month …) * Audio recordings of Feynman's lectures are now available * A bunch of interesting alternative CLI tools * Sleep evolved before brains? * Gotta take sleeping mor…
Generally interesting links - Apr 2021
Science * The tallest natural arch in the world (taller than the Empire State Building), see the pic above. * Mathematica for Data Science Watchables * I like watching all the “Beauty of …” vid…
Watching the Hobbit
I recently finished (over a few months) reading through the illustrated version of The Hobbit with my daughter. This week the whole family watched the 1977 animated version of the Hobbit, and we love…
MLP and Star Trek
Yes, this is a serious title. While reading with Tara, I have acquired a "taste" for My Little Pony, and this has largely been due to all the references found within it. These are not for…
He-man
I did not expect to see this in a store, not in 2021. Yes, it’s good ‘ol He-Man and Battle Cat. The last time I saw this was probably the early 90s. Now I’m wondering whether I just wasn’t paying a…
On old software
George R. R. Martin, when asked by Conan O' Brien, on why he wrote on on an old PC, running MS-DOS, not connected to the internet, in Wordstar 4.0. I actually like it, it does everything I want a…
Monthly recap (Apr 2021)
Major updates * Trip to Mendocino for a week * Lots of eating and hiking Minor updates * Tara began “full days” at school * Got the first Moderna dose at CVS * Experimenting with a new Tind…
Monthly recap (Feb 2021)
Major updates * Hiking at Long ridge trail Minor updates * Uneven sleep, gotta fix that * Tara had a "zoom lego camp" for a week, which was ... not bad Watched/read/played/made *…
Switching to self-hosted Wordpress
For various reasons, I decided to ditch wordpress.com and self-host this blog. It might turn out to be a terrible idea, but I’ll stick with it for a year. Some motivations: * better control throug…
Generally interesting links - Mar 2021
Books * Damn, Douglas Adams didn't enjoy writing either 😟 (pic above) * Math in Moby-Dick * Pynchon's piece in the NYT Books section Tools and practices * In which I develop an unheal…