Author: Mike Garrity

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What is Time?

Specifically, what is time in parallel programming? Have you heard about Rich Hickey’s talk at JVMSummit. It’s worth checking out. It is pretty thought provoking and I think it’s getting close to some issues...

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WGBH buys WCRB

This is probably only of local interest, but … The state of classical music radio has been going downhill in Boston in recent years. We used to have a number of good choices. WBOQ...

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Argiope Aurantia

Here’s another picture from our garden. This one might not be as popular as some of our earlier ones (link, link) though. This is Argiope Aurantia, or the Black and Yellow Garden Spider. She...

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Kinds of Pauses

We were discussing the different kinds of pauses in spoken English tonight.  Books about rhetoric will tell you that there are grammatical pauses and rhetorical pauses. A grammatical pause indicates the logical relationships between...

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Paul Newman

We were remiss not to mention Paul Newman in our posts about Lime Rock. You may know him as an actor, but he was also a race car driver. A serious driver too, not...

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Gigagalaxy Zoom

The European Southern Observatory has a neat, high-res, zoomable image of the entire night sky up on their website. It’s a total of about 800 million pixels. Once you go to their website, click...

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Opposition Effect

Have you ever looked at your shadow on the ground and noticed a bright spot around the shadow of your head? It’s not an illusion and it certainly doesn’t involve anything supernatural. It’s called...

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Lime Rock 2009 – The Races

My previous Lime Rock post was primarily about the cars we saw at Sunday in the Park. The cars are nice, but the whole point of the Vintage Festival is the races. Lime Rock...

What Do All Of These Buttons Do? 0

What Do All Of These Buttons Do?

We’ve had a number of visitors to the blog who don’t know the purpose of the various icons that are scattered around the page. I’m going to take a minute here to try and...