Sigh. I ordered a spiffy new toy on the morning of Friday the 10th; I was told it would be...
In 1654, one Friedrich von Logau wrote something in German that Longfellow (sometime in the 1800s) translated into English as:...
Spent much of the weekend working on cleaning apartment in preparation for workshop meeting on Sunday afternoon. Got a lot...
Yesterday was Kam's birthday; spent the day hanging out with her. We went to an early-afternoon showing of Attack of...
They're growing purple carrots—which turns out to be the color carrots used to be before the Dutch turned them orange...
Using a high voltage capacitor bank to apply a current of over 1 million amperes to a quarter, causing the...
Cute article in the Crypto-Gram crypto/security newsletter about a Japanese cryptographer who's developed a way to cheaply and easily create...
I've been reading Eric Shanower's comic book Age of Bronze, as collected into A Thousand Ships, the first of several...
Interesting article in The Atlantic, "The Royal We," talks about a mathematical/statistical approach to genealogy which has some interesting and...
Watched O. No, not The Story of O, just O. Mary Anne and I saw a preview for it on...
I've come to find databases indispensable for all kinds of things. Unfortunately, over the past couple days I've encountered one...
Sarah just returned the latest issues of Strangers in Paradise, which she'd borrowed to read. Her returning them got me...