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My #YesAllMen Pledge

patrickwonders May 29, 2014 22:00

I have been reading through #yesALLwomen threads and #notALLmen crap. I've been trying to think of what best I can contribute to move the ball forward. Here's my first step.
#YesAllMen Pledge

I recognize that misogyny is pervasive in our society. I recognize that circumstances and privilege make it hard for me to see all of the ways misogyny ( Read more... )

Books I Read in 2013...

patrickwonders Jan 02, 2014 17:49

I've read a great deal more since I've bought a NOOK GlowLight than I ever have before. Here's what I read in 2013.

Fiction:

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Guardian by Jack Campbell
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

One thing about my wife....

patrickwonders Dec 17, 2013 13:24

There are many, many things to love about my wife eyelid. One that I'm not sure I've ever mentioned to her before is this....

eyelid has an amazing aptitude for grokking stories and the characters in them. When I read a book, I tend to float along letting the characters do what they do and letting the story go where it goes. Even with just a few seconds of ( Read more... )

Here's how I've been baking bread lately.

patrickwonders Dec 15, 2013 19:18

At 10AM the day before, mix 150g of King Arthur Bread (or All-Purpose) Flour and 150g of water with the tiniest, tiniest sprinkle of Rapid Rise (Bread Machine) Yeast. I use a steel bowl and then invert a slightly larger steel bowl over it to keep it from drying out much ( Read more... )

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Applicable Proofs...

patrickwonders May 17, 2013 22:04

We both know it's been forever since I posted on LJ. This one's too long for Twitter and doesn't mesh well with my mostly-Lisp blog. 'Nuff said.

I've started reading The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible by Lance ( Read more... )

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Adventures in Upstate Ohio with Apple Maps as Your Guide

patrickwonders Dec 22, 2012 21:58

Suppose that you're travelling with four kids in the car. It's getting to be time for lunch and you want to exercise the kids a bit. Ohio has very nice rest areas, but you think a mall would be a better fit. So, you search Apple Maps for a mall.

You've just passed the I-90/I-75 interchange. You don't want to go ( Read more... )

Null Intersection Hypothesis?

patrickwonders Dec 02, 2012 16:21

Here's the situation. You're in an all-day meeting at work. It comes time to order the pizza for lunch. A quick survey of the 20 people present reveals that four of you are vegetarian. Obviously, since 20% of the people are vegetarian, 20% of the pizzas should be meat-free.

Of course, this fails to take into account the fact that some non- ( Read more... )

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Units of Measure

patrickwonders Jul 19, 2012 07:59

In a radio news story about the on-going drought, some water company representative said that last month's water usage (in whatever area he was talking about... I don't remember... it doesn't matter here...) was 300 million gallons.

We have many, many commonly used subdivisions of gallons:

1/4th of a gallon is a quart
1/2 of a quart is a pint
1/2 of a ( Read more... )

My Small Apartment -- No-stalgia

patrickwonders Sep 10, 2011 22:54

I woke up this morning feeling very nostalgic for an apartment in which I used to live. It was a really small apartment. I lived there for awhile with eyelid and before that with _xis. I have very distinct memories of this place. All of these memories are very happy. This morning's memory was being there with eyelid.

This is the apartment layout.