Category Archives: neep-neep

oops

I had my BIOS set to boot from floppy, HD and CD, in that order, when I wanted CD before HD. No wonder stuff wouldn’t install.

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annoying website of the day

Your browser is out-of-date. You’re seeing this message because your browser won’t display my pages properly. Rather than frustrate you with a pile of junk, I’d rather tell you how to update your browser so you can come back and … 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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area code is destiny?

It has been brought to my attention that 415 is HTTP code for “Unsupported Media Type”. I guess that would include former employees of the Industry Standard.

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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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“Immigrants”

a touching tale of leaving behind the familiar for a strange new world. (August 1996)

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use the protocol, Luke!

Star Wars IV by telnet

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