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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…
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Skip to main contentOne 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…
* An overview * Why America can’t build * On building * Building institutions * Towards a science of progress * Time to build * Fast * Managerial childhoods…
After a long time, trying out the “real paper news” experience again.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
* 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…
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…
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…
* 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…
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…