Monthly recap (Dec 2020)
Major updates * A stay-at-home end-of-year vacation * Lots of driving around or walking around locally Minor updates * A day trip to San Francisco (chocolates at Ghirardelli, having coffee ou…
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Generally interesting links - Dec 2020
Science * Old teeth These human ancestors, who roamed different patches of Eurasia roughly 1.77 million and 800,000 years ago, respectively, share a claim to fame: Their fossilized teeth harbor…
Generally interesting links - Nov 2020
Computing * On making less software * On the microprocessor to the personal computer * On how there might be a lot of efficiencies up for grabs right now * On Gopher and Gemini (i.e. as alternati…
Monthly recap (Nov 2020)
Major updates * Tara turned six !! Minor updates * Lots of social trips * Ergonomic improvements (more on this soon) * Sleep schedule has not been great * Visited Barnes and Noble (after a ye…
Monthly Recap (Oct 2020)
Major updates * Gradual “actual physical school” transition for Tara * Halloween! Minor updates * Introducing card games to Tara: War, Go Fish! * Misc maintenance * replacing hood and r…
Generally interesting links - Oct 2020
Computing * A sobering reality: “the world runs on Excel, Java 8, and Sharepoint” * A trend toward the end of open source * Something cool: Pharo and the “Glamorous Toolkit” * Next, the “programm…
Monthly Recap (Sep 2020)
Major updates * Trip to Capitola Minor updates * A new family board game: Labyrinth * Re-activated my Facebook account, mostly to follow Tara’s school account * This month went by … really qui…
Generally interesting links - Sep 2020
* A John Carmack interview from way, way back. Legendary. * Rapping on cartoon impressions (I was … very impressed!) * This month in Archaeology #1: examining the evidence of a massive bronze-age b…
Monthly Recap (Aug 2020)
Major updates * Tara began (virtual) kindergarten (!) Minor updates * Garage cleanup * Finished my fourth 1000-piece puzzle * Haircuts * Some dentist trips * Trips: Pleasanton to meet friend…
Generally interesting links - Aug 2020
* “The truth is paywalled but the lies are free” * Blast-from-the-past for RPG gaming: the newer Baldur’s Gate * Bjarne Stroustrup on various things * Reviewing a scene in Predator (there is so mu…
Monthly Recap (Jul 2020)
Major updates * Tara “graduated” from pre-school * Bunch of day trips (Rockaway beach, Sanborn county park, Waddell beach, Seascape beach) * I became a year older :-| Minor updates * Assembled…
Generally Interesting Links - July 2020
* Folks have been living in the American continents about a … couple dozen millennia … longer than you thought. * This was just so … dunno, poetic? romantic? … on “birds who never come down” * The…