Monthly Archives: January 2005

remember the Future?

how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004. I wonder what the big wheel is for.

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nature itself

Yesterday we took a spin in the exuberantly wooded Santa Cruz Mountains. Bright winter sunshine with patches of rain made for a superb light. On the way home near sunset, I saw my first sun pillar.

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linky goodness

Mike Ruff: open carry as propaganda Will Wilkinson: Remitting Disaster Arimaa, “the first game that was designed intentionally to be difficult for computers to play.” James D. Miller: The Depolarizing Power of the Blogosphere Once More With Hobbits: filk of … Continue reading

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interruption of service

Today’s excuse for inactivity is that my monitor is on the fritz. At first I thought it was a previously unseen mode of a screensaver that looks like bad TV reception: the blue channel suddenly covered the whole screen with … Continue reading

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magic

Last week I put some bellflowers under the orange tree on my porch — and it hasn’t rained since. Update: The rain returned on January 25.

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hypothetical Netflix algorithm

I don’t know how Netflix decides what to send to whom. Here’s how I might do it: Process the incoming mail: update each title’s availability data and each customer’s Demand (subscription quota minus discs out). (X) For each customer, put … Continue reading

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does it mean anything?

In Fractured Fairy Tales: The Three Little Piggs (1960 Oct 09), the wolf when first seen is reading Gay Boy magazine.

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