Thoughts on Wordpress and Medium
I had tried out Medium earlier, perhaps three years ago. At the time, I found it redundant for what I had started doing, which is sharing the curated monthly links. Wordpress was a better fit for that…
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Some thoughts on notes, with DevonThink
I should write about my opinions on “artisanal software” separately, but I have mentioned some of the tools I use, and DevonThink is pretty central to a lot of ways I “augment myself”. So, here’s a s…
So much beauty in the world
https://youtu.be/Qssvnjj5Moo Realized it’s been two decades since I first saw this scene.…
MLP: Collecting the anomalies
I realized, after writing my earlier post, that merely talking about this doesn't quite convey my point, so (as I read through these with my daughter) I'll take a few pics when I remember, of…
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…
A triangular sand pyramid
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…
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.…