Generally interesting links - Jul 2021
History * Stone age art “in a new light” Concave stone lamps filled with animal fat, on the other hand, are smokeless and can offer more than an hour of focused, candlelike light. Science * “Wh…
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Generally interesting links - Jun 2021
Science(-Fiction) * The intelligent Forest * (itself an excerpt from “Finding the Mother Tree”) * Birds might be seeing the magnetic field * Engrossing and calming video of the death of a Cili…
Monthly recap (Jun 2021)
Major updates * A trip to Muir Woods Minor updates * Got a covid test (negative!) * Dealing with some ants and cockroaches at home * Patio work at home (tiling) * Got some cards for Father…
Monthly recap (May 2021)
Major updates * Not a lot, this month just flew by! Minor updates * Some gardening attempts at home * A "terrarium activity" at work; got a hardy plant in the bowl to show for it * W…
Generally interesting links - Apr 2021
Science * The tallest natural arch in the world (taller than the Empire State Building), see the pic above. * Mathematica for Data Science Watchables * I like watching all the “Beauty of …” vid…
Monthly recap (Apr 2021)
Major updates * Trip to Mendocino for a week * Lots of eating and hiking Minor updates * Tara began “full days” at school * Got the first Moderna dose at CVS * Experimenting with a new Tind…
Monthly recap (Feb 2021)
Major updates * Hiking at Long ridge trail Minor updates * Uneven sleep, gotta fix that * Tara had a "zoom lego camp" for a week, which was ... not bad Watched/read/played/made *…
Generally interesting links - Mar 2021
Books * Damn, Douglas Adams didn't enjoy writing either 😟 (pic above) * Math in Moby-Dick * Pynchon's piece in the NYT Books section Tools and practices * In which I develop an unheal…
Monthly recap (Mar 2021)
Major updates * Weekend trip to Carmel Minor updates * Got a haircut after a long time, lol * Trying out Fastmail as an email provider Watched/read/played/made * Re-started reading Against…
Generally interesting links - Feb 2021
(A short list this time) * On the “insane biology of the Octopus” (there’s always an Octopus link here, right?) * Somewhat extremist (in a minimalist sense) take on how to write for the web to outl…
Monthly Recap (Jan 2021)
Major updates * Well, a new year and a new adventure for me at Sigma Computing (bit more on that soon) Minor updates * Played a bunch with silly-but-fun air-pump "rockets" * Switched…
Generally Interesting Links - Jan 2021
Science * The Greenland crater (this is old though, before the discovery of the second one) * I had no idea about the Neolithic bottleneck * On “Mycelial Connections” While it’s true that humans…