The website that hosts The Libertarian Enterprise changed domains some time ago, but it took me this long to notice how it changed; one isn’t always paying attention to such things. The old domain is www.ncc-1776.com, the new is www.ncc-1776.org; what makes this worth mentioning is that, in 4/4 of the examples I’ve tried so far, an old link works with the mere change of com to org. Hardly worth mentioning, I know, unless one of you is as fog-witted as I am.

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life is “a philosophical road comic about two unemployed robots on an improvised interplanetary voyage of self discovery.” Understatedly fantastic.

In the old Bill Cosby Show, Chet Kincaid was a PE teacher who, in one memorable episode, substituted for an algebra teacher. (Come to think of it, that episode was probably my first exposure to algebra!) Does anyone remember the problem that stumped him? It was of this form: A customer buys some candy at p cents/pound and some other candy at q cents/pound; the total weight is m pounds and the total price $k; how much of each kind of candy?

I was reminded of this by a rant about the importance of algebra.

Lately the attempts to spam this blog come disproportionately as comments on posts in the spam category. Hm.

Just for laughs, I’ll approve all comments on this one.

The peaks near Lick Observatory have snow, a rarity. I can see one from home. Alas that Lick’s webcams are dead.

Pillow has a new ambition: to liberate the thick white string that crosses the space between two bookcases — i.e. my Ethernet line.

I saw a poster advertising Clorox products with a picture of a child and a caption something like Let’s hope they catch more fireflies than flu bugs. Which is a pretty farfetched thing to hope for, anywhere within a thousand miles of Clorox’s home office!