Playing Sudoku
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…
A simple Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
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…
Journalling flow
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…
The Highlight Zone
One of my favorite shows for Tara is Peg Cat. There is a glut of “kid-oriented shows”, and this is very refreshing. The “drawing quality” is similar to Pete the Cat (crayon-cartoon-ish), with grid…
On building
* An overview * Why America can’t build * On building * Building institutions * Towards a science of progress * Time to build * Fast * Managerial childhoods…
Back to reading newspapers
After a long time, trying out the “real paper news” experience again.…
My daughter’s first horror movie :-|
We recently finished all three seasons of the “new” 2002-2006 Scooby Doo series1, and while browsing Netflix, we came across a full-length Scooby Doo movie. Great. In the spirit of watching a “family…
A collection of notes on nature and order
I found these notes I’d copy-pasted from somewhere from about five years ago. I decided to track down their sources, as best I could. From “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” By Richard P.…
On “effects” in moving images
See this opening for Vertigo and then realize this: However, what if CGI in films went back even further, to 1957 1958? I heard about this possibility through a video presented by John Hess on some…
Monthly Recap (May 2020)
Major updates * Tara got the hang of biking (or at least balancing) … and also had her first big fall from it Minor updates * Sidewalk chalk coloring * Played more Catan * Doodling * Watched…
Generally interesting links- May 2020
* A possible compact fusion reacxtor ? * I can’t get enough of good articles on Fungi * A game to play if you second-guess the Fed * On Neil Postman, America, Trump; looking back at Amusing Oursel…