Experiments, observations, and ideas: tech tools, AI, books, media, daily systems
I found myself listening to this recently: From the description: This is the ambient electromagnetic signal of our Sun and Neptune which have been combined with each other and then deepened and smoo…
Discovered the PythonTurtle library, reminded me of LOGO a long time ago (!) A sample session: $ bpython bpython version 0.18 on top of Python 3.7.6 /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7 >>>…
Major updates * Gradual “actual physical school” transition for Tara * Halloween! Minor updates * Introducing card games to Tara: War, Go Fish! * Misc maintenance * replacing hood and r…
Computing * A sobering reality: “the world runs on Excel, Java 8, and Sharepoint” * A trend toward the end of open source * Something cool: Pharo and the “Glamorous Toolkit” * Next, the “programm…
I tried out Airtable for a year, for a simple personal spreadsheet that I’ve been keeping for a few years now. It’s slick, and quick to enter data, but in the end I’ve decided to go back to Numbers.…
Context In my previous post I talked about how the realm of what was possible expanded when we got a better, faster computer … but it took a whole other leap with the first “on-line” experiences. Q…
I decided to take pictures of the beginnings of three books at home. The first is from Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. The second is from Maps of Meaning: The Architectu…
Youtube is always goiong to be superior to Spotify just because ... it has more stuff. The downside is that it's hard to know wtf is real any more, when searching for something. The upside is th…
Apps on our smartphones get a bad rap for wasting our time, and deservedly. It's true that most are either harmful or neutral, or a distraction, or a minor convenience. One set of apps that are…
Major updates * Trip to Capitola Minor updates * A new family board game: Labyrinth * Re-activated my Facebook account, mostly to follow Tara’s school account * This month went by … really qui…
* A John Carmack interview from way, way back. Legendary. * Rapping on cartoon impressions (I was … very impressed!) * This month in Archaeology #1: examining the evidence of a massive bronze-age b…
We recently watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — and I realized the movie is already twenty years old! I thought I’d read the book with my daughter, now that we’ve seen the movie, and I th…