Playing around with the Mandelbrot Set
What does a geek do when he’s given a little downtime during a week of conference talks and meetings? He plays with the Mandelbrot set. I’ve been getting into vector programming – the nitty-gritty...
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“The Cinema Craze” as seen in the UK circa 1917
The New Age was a weekly British magazine that covered modernist topics in the arts and society, most active in the years 1907-1922. It featured several notable contributors during that time, among them George...
On The Effects Of Ballpark Altitude On The Number Of Home Runs
The other day a friend of mine commented that he witnessed quite a few home runs during a Cubs vs. Rockies game at Coors Field in Denver. There was a total of 4 home runs,...
In which my pugs teach me about mindfulness
Sebastien Pug with his duck careen across the room, plopping down on the oversized circular dog bed at the far end. “He’s out of control!”, Sonya would say. Sebastien is 4 years old and...
The Monstir Plate – DIY Magnetic Stir Plate
I use a stir plate for growing yeast cultures for my beer brewing. Most of my recipes require only a 1.5L batch; however, there are some recipes that call for a larger quantity of...
The 2014 Ebola Outbreak – Playing with the numbers
My flight was delayed for and hour and a half getting out of Chicago tonight so I’ve started playing around with numbers, something I am wont to do when I have free time. This...
Kite Flying Sundays Afternoons
Kite Flying Sundays Afternoons The cluttered community bulletin board; Every café and coffee shop with any self respect has one. Push-pin strung business cards abound covering the range of services from Astral Projections to...
The Double-Helix Wort Chiller
I haven’t brewed in quite a while and part of the reason is that over the winter I lost my wort chiller. It wasn’t misplaced but rather I failed to sufficiently blow out all...
I’ve been racing
I ended up signing up for the Vueltas de Mountainair which was held yesterday. I teamed up with 3 other guys from Bike ‘N’ Sport, all fairly new riders. Tom Egelhoff, Oscar Nova, and...
That instant in time was really 15 seconds in the making
It may turn out that the instant you are now experiencing – really, any instant you experience – is an amalgamation of the previous 15 seconds of consciousness. This is the conclusion of a...
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