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…
Combining the two kinds of curated monthly posts
For a long time now1 I’ve put together a bunch of links that I’ve found interesting, and done this every month. In the beginning, I had two separate blogs (I can’t reconstruct the rationale behind th…
Oh captain my captain, or a look back at John Keating
At some point, Robin Williams will be forgotten, but not today. There are numerous movies of his which have influenced me a lot, and it would take too long to mention them, especially since my list wo…
Monthly Curations: May 2020
* How Google ruined the internet :-) * On malleable programming environments * ACM made a bunch of good stuff free for a while * Inspiring story on how the Crafting interpreters book was completed…
Random note: 437943
I realized the only reason this is Wordpress is that (1) it allowed me to import older material from an old Tumblr, and (2) I'm still in the "write-somewhere-then-export-to-Wordpress" mo…