Haven't been here in quite a while, just too much else to look at. A certain web site with the initial fb has stopped working for me, and I mean that in the literal sense.

I'm just checking to see if this thing is still on, I guess. I may have things to say someday.

I had my first sighting of a spotted towhee on the UW campus this week. I was walking parallel to the south face of the law school when I heard it call, a sound I'd never heard on campus before. Being the dork I am, I almost always have my small binoculars on me, and this day was no exception. I'm glad I had them, as they made it possible for me to ( Read more... )

While approaching the quad from Red Square yesterday, I heard gulls screeching more raucously than usual. I looked to spy numerous gulls, and, to my thrill, 3 bald eagles and at least two hawks, possibly Cooper's but I suspect juvenile Red Tailed, all soaring low over UW. Before I got across the quad they had all left, and the seagulls were more ( Read more... )

"While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can’t put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him ( Read more... )

I criticize myself for wasting time, money, energy, space. But mine is nothing compared to the time, money, energy, and space, her own and others, wasted by Orly Taitz.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DESOLINA!!! YEEEEEAAAHHHHH!!!!! YAAAHHHHHH!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!

From a piece of paper that fell out of my closet today:

"Loading a block into the cache

After data is [sic] read from main memory, putting a copy of that data into the cache is straightforward.
- The lowest k bits of the address specify a cache block.
- The upper (m-k) address bits are stored in the block's tag field ( Read more... )

Ann Coulter's jaw has been wired shut.

Ann Coulter's jaw has been WIRED SHUT.

ANN COULTER'S jaw has been wired shut.

ANN. COULTER'S. JAW. has been WIRED. SHUT.

ANN.

COULTER'S.

JAW.

HAS.

BEEN.

WIRED.

SHUT.

I can't stop smiling. And chuckling. And laughing.

Part of the making of a good day is: standing in front of the class one is about to interpret, then looking at one's team and, seeing that they have a small Ziploc sealable container with apple slices in it, remembering that there is, at home, most of a sour cream apple pie with a delicious nutty-cookie crust ( Read more... )

After all the kerfuffle about Obama's former church and pastor, I wonder if there will be any, I said any, mainstream press exposure of Palin's church, which is explicitly dominionist and affiliated with "Joel's Army" (that I just learned about through the right reverend P.Z. Myers ( Read more... )