Skew Binary
Remember my earlier post about balanced ternary? Well, another odd numbering system has been in the news recently. Randall Munroe just published a collection of XKCD comics. The page numbers start out like this:...
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Sudbury, the Big Nickel, and BIFs
When I lived in Canada as a child we were always taking these long road trips to see the sights. Some of the places were more interesting that others. One that I remember from...
Why I hate browser inconsistencies…
This post is going to be somewhat out of character for me – it doesn’t include anything about food. But if I can write this up and save anyone else the frustration that I’ve...
Splash @MIT (day 1)
I went to something called Splash at MIT today. Splash is a big event of MIT students teaching classes about many diverse subjects, from chocolate to quantum physics. One of the classes I took...
Robots Perform Shakespeare
There’s been a lot of concern over the years about the effect of automation on employment in various fields. There’s occasionally been some talk about this in acting because of CGI projects like Digital...
The Political Mind
I just finished reading George Lakoff’s book The Political Mind. If you’re not familiar with him, he’s a cognitive linguist at Berkeley. That means that he researches the ways in which language use reflects...
Pot Roast with Polenta
I hadn’t really planned on doing a pot roast, but the supermarket had a special on beef chuck roast and it was a cold rainy weekend, so I just had to do something. Yes,...
Steve Blank Finds Closure
Steve Blank was VP of marketing at Ardent when I was at Stellar. The two companies were rivals and then later were combined to form Stardent. He’s been telling a bunch of old stories...
