Generally Interesting Links - July 2020
* Folks have been living in the American continents about a … couple dozen millennia … longer than you thought. * This was just so … dunno, poetic? romantic? … on “birds who never come down” * The…
On the appealing strangeness of My Little Pony
I’ll confess I had no impression about “My little pony” (I’ll abbreviate as “MLP” to save keystrokes) until about a year ago, when I first sat down with my daughter and watched the first episode1 of “…
Cave generation
I came across this brief overview1 of generating ASCII representations of dungeons, and decided to take a stab at a Scala version of the same. The basic idea is (1) generate some random walls, and th…
Notebook rollover time
My Cafe Note B6 Slim from Nanami Paper filled up (second in a row!), and I recently switched to a different, larger notebook — the Seven Seas “MicroDot” A5 — from the same company (and so, the same p…
On note-taking, the meaning of notes, and what I use
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…
Ennio Morricone
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…
Random note: 198432
A could of random selections from the backmatter of the graphic novel omnibus "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"…
Of Androids and 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…
Using Twitter the right way (!)
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’…
Monthly Recap (Jun 2020)
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…
Generally Interesting Links- June 2020
* 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…
Optimized Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
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…