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Context (FYI, this is the sort of thing that’s re-hashed over and over again …) Some words mean many things — and while not quite as versatile as God or Fuck, Note is surely high on the list. There…
I remember it was about sixteen years ago now, that someone introduced1 me to the spaghetti western genre. This is how I came across the “dynamic duo“ of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. I had watch…
A could of random selections from the backmatter of the graphic novel omnibus "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"…
I’ve watched the original Bladerunner1 (many times) and the new one2 (once), but I hadn’t read the original novel3 (“Do androids dream of electric sheep?”) ever, despite repeatedly resolving to, and b…
Apparently there was a massive Twitter hack1 yesterday, and some folks clearly made a bunch of money2 off it too. I didn’t notice this, though I do spend several minutes a day on Twitter. I guess it’…
Major updates * A few interesting excursions (picnic in Lexington reservoir and Loch Lomond, an afternoon at Greyhound Rock Beach. * Trips to parks (Tara playing, farewell to a close friend, some s…
* The latest (and probably the last 😕) sequel to The Trip is out * File this under “labor of love”: Dune, the “novel cut” * A thorough review of spacecrafts in science fiction * An overview of Fu…
Context As hinted at in the first post, I found Abhinav’s posts to be a great source material for learning and (over this weekend) recreation :-) I picked the second post, where the pruning process…
Doing the Sudoku solver made me want to play some myself. I ended up getting this app. It’s fun, the ads don’t bother me, it has levels (easy, medium, difficult, hard, and ... evil), and keeps track…
Context I found this excellent blog post by Abhinav Sarkar that lays out, step-by-step, writing a simple Sudoku solver in Haskell, and … it seemed a good idea to translate it, step-by-corresponding-s…
I’ve been doing this for perhaps four years now, so … it’s something I can write about. Here’s a rough outline: * I use Day One1 * Every day, I write one entry on what happened that day * Optional…