Category Archives: technology

the trouble with imported cars

Amara Graps writes: “Not being a blogger, myself, I’m seeing if the bloggers I know want to pick up this story I wrote.” What happened to Bush’s Cadillac 1? As recorded by a viewer of the motorcade and posted to … Continue reading

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still dangerous

I took Dad to the target range today. I hadn’t shot in three years, nor he in seven. He, using my .22, was pleased enough with his shooting to take his target home. With my .40, I did better than … Continue reading

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do me no favors

Argh. In the newest version of Firefox, Gmail puts its content in popups, and I can’t find a way to turn off that behavior. Later: It only did that once, the first time I loaded Gmail after updating Firefox.

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Finagle’s Law

I hoped to have some new math pictures for you (or at least for me) today, but my attempts to install a code library that I need have come to nothing. The makefile invokes gcc with options that version 3.3 … Continue reading

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long-awaited

Jamie Zawinski has ported his gorgeous screensaver collection to MacOS. My favorites are Demon, a colorful cellular automaton; CloudLife, a fuzzy variant of Conway’s Life; Substrate, whose randomly growing arcs suggest the street plan of an old city; Galaxy, a … Continue reading

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what do you want to create today?

It’s unlikely that you need me to tell you that 3d printing (aka rapid prototyping, aka stereolithography) can do wonderful things. Now Fab@Home seeks to bring the technology to the hobbyist. (Thanks to the muted horn for the link.)

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recycling

Having made the plunge and ordered Knuth’s third edition, what should I do with the volumes I bought twenty-odd years ago?

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