Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire
I finally got around to reading Rafe Esquith’s book Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire (my to-read pile has gotten a little deep). You’ve probably heard of Rafe. He’s a fifth grade teacher in...
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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...
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...
Maker Faire Rhode Island
There was a Maker Faire in Rhode Island last week. We visited on the final Saturday. It was a pretty fall day and everyone was out showing off the things they’d made. For example,...
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...
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...
Alan Turing and How Zebras Get Their Stripes
Gordon Brown recently apologized for the way the British government treated Alan Turing in the 50’s. In general, I don’t think much of these “government apologies”, but in this case I think that it...
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...
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...
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...
