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Convolutor

Have you ever wondered how this stuff was made? Of course you have. That’s the sort of thing that I think about all the time. Well, Evil Mad Scientist has the answer, and it’s...

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How Cold Was It?

Nate Silver (of election night fame) has launched his new journalism site called FiveThirtyEight. One of the first articles up is about this winter’s weather. It’s called This Winter Wasn’t the Coldest, But It...

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Welcome to the new blog

Ta-Daa! I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been spending time getting the blog moved from Blogger to WordPress. Blogger was quick and easy to set up many years ago when we were...

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Stripping

Most of my car time is still being spent stripping parts off of the old Miata. Last weekend I finally got the wiring harness out. It was a total of 30 pounds of wiring!...

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Google define

Google has been rolling out a lot of new search features recently. My favorite is that if you put the word define in front of something, and then expand the card (click the big...

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Nothing but Blue Skies

I worked in the graphics hardware group at Stellar back when Tom Van Sant created his wonderful image of the entire earth with no clouds. He created it using one of our GS1000 systems....

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Fun with Maps

We’ve been having a lot of fun recently with a game called GeoGuessr. It drops you into Google Maps Streetview at a random location, and you have to guess where you are. Our best...

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Snow

We haven’t had much snow this winter, but today it looks a bit more like February should. All of the dogs in the neighborhood seemed to think it was pretty great. But some of...

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The Servant of Two Masters

Last night we went to see the Yale Rep’s wonderful production of Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters. We saw the ART production years ago with Tommy Derrah as Truffaldino. That was a lot...