Category Archives: me!me!me!

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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I feel my pain

My temp job is at a lawfirm that defends insurers in Workers Comp. (They seem surprisingly honest about Trying to Do the Right Thing.) Typing all these letters about cumulative trauma and tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome . . . makes my … Continue reading

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the clock has new numbers

You may be hearing less from me in the next few weeks. Got a temp job that involves getting up at hours previously unknown to civilized man, at least this one.

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