Category Archives: me!me!me!

we’ve all got knives; it’s 1183

For once in my life someone gives me a nickname, and then in the next breath gives it to someone else. Good grief. Craig, it’s all yours, I didn’t like it anyway. Speaking of shivs, though, I wonder how Steve … Continue reading

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four puzzled people

This month’s most puzzling search: “8 day clock gear train” (4 hits). 2004 Oct 19: I guess it was attracted mostly by Travis’s Lego item.

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do you remember the night

I dreamt I was listening to Tom Lehrer sing one of his standards, with an extra verse I had not heard before. Of course it was (seemed) brilliant, and of course I could not remember a word of it come … Continue reading

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my pet programming project

Over several years now I have worked sporadically to catalog hypothetical fullerenes — i.e. convex closed surfaces built of pentagons and hexagons. Last year I tossed out my old work in C to start over in Python, whose list primitive … Continue reading

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lexicon lust

Saturday at Moe’s I found a recent reprint of the great Monier-Williams dictionary of Sanskrit (1899) for $35, about a quarter of what I had expected to pay someday for it. Whee. I find, by the way, that Indian printing … Continue reading

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Daylight Saving Week

Thursday was the first time, since I started getting up in the dark, that the sky was clear enough that I might see a sunrise. Well, sorta: I was in motion when I first saw the sun that day – … Continue reading

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an impossible soap-film

Did a spot of programming today: a crude script to translate Surface Evolver output into PoV-Ray input. Took me maybe an hour. Python r00lz.

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