How many MacOS experts read this?
When I launch Grapher, I get a Warning:
Font Conflict
Several characters (Greek letters, e.g.) cannot be displayed correctly because of a conflict between the installed fonts. If you are using MathType, please make sure that version 5.0a or higher is installed.
Font Book’s function “Resolve Duplicates” does not help. Any suggestions?
Chris Bliss interprets the Abbey Road suite . . in juggling. It’s awesome. (bigger version, 27MB)
See also the Chris Bliss Diss, in which Jason Garfield does a very similar routine with five balls to Bliss’s three (and some added tricks). Garfield’s friend writes:
Watch the video, and understand: THIS is great juggling. That Bliss guy may put on a good act, but he is not a good juggler. There is a huge difference.
I’m not sensitive to what makes it great juggling, so what I see is that Bliss gives a better show. Garfield’s performance fits the music less well, I think.
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.