One of the modes of Jamie Zawinski's xscreensaver just displayed something incomprehensible.

puni shment

What's a puni? What's a shment?
Fairy tales, they're important teachings to remember.

The better to confound you, my dear.

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This has been there a long time.


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Little daughter took the challenge and seems to have internalized something like 120 digits of pi. When I pulled out Abramowitz and Stegun she remarked that seeing pi in there had been one of her motivators. This led me to point out the paucity of decimal digits actually provided in the old books of tables, and how rapidly a 30-year old HP ( Read more... )

Early January the bucks still have antlers, itchy, old, fragile (or even bloody stumps), and graze with bucks. Late January and into February the antlers are gone and the bucks and does and fawns graze together. Late February the rich greens trigger the next set of antlers to start bulging and the sexes separate again ( Read more... )

Trelane: I don't know if I like your tone. It's most challenging. That's what you're doing, challenging me ( Read more... )

chocolate

Sure, the movie is titled Thor, and he gets the action, but as soon as the voice of Anthony Hopkins started giving the backstory in the opening narration it was obvious who was commanding the situations.

Could anyone else have done better in that role?

Now I wish to rent Beowulf to get another taste of the sagas.

Little daughter's final elementary science project sits complete, awaiting the fair as the sun next sets. It's not really science per se. It's much more engineering than testing any hypothesis, unless that hypothesis is mine and the topic is her. The core of the project is an Arduino. The work involved breadboarding circuits where I made one ( Read more... )

Our new Russian overlords really do include the Russian overlord.