Chihuly at the MFA
We visited the MFA today to see the Chihuly ‘Through the Looking Glass’ exhibit with Peter. I’ve been fascinated by Dale Chihuly’s glass installations ever since seeing a program about his installation of enormous...
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Top/Bottom C++
As someone who has spent an awful lot of time wrangling really large C++ codebases, I really enjoyed John D. Cook’s recent blog post Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?. I think...
What happened to the News?
A couple of days ago after reading the Boston Globe website for news I decided to take a look at what the BBC had on the homepage of its website. There in the center...
Instant Mix
We’ve been using Google Music for a couple of weeks now. There’s a lot to like about it. We’ve got more than 50MB of music in it. The UI is responsive and easy to...
Foveon Sensors and Autochromes
You may have heard about Sigma’s newly released high-end camera called the SD1. If so, what you probably heard about was the price tag. A list price of $9,700 seems pretty high, but there’s...
Peter Diamond
Just in case you needed any more examples of how broken our government has become, Peter Diamond just withdrew his nomination to the Fed. Richard Shelby claimed he was blocking the nomination because Diamond...
Collatz Conjecture
Is this sequence familiar to you? 1, 2, 8, 3, 6, 9, 17, 4, 20, 7, 15, 10, 10, … It’s called A008908 in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. You probably encountered in...
It’s Cool ‘Cause It’s Nerdy
Today Yung Jake answers David O’Reilly, and shows us that datamoshing still has some legs. Oh, BTW, pretty much NSFW…
Memorial Day
The highlight of Memorial Day weekend around here is the annual softball game. This was the tenth year that Colleen and Phil have held it. Once again, the weather was great and everyone had...
