And now it's all this
And now it's all this
Dr. Drang
I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong
Latest Posts
Latest sunrise and earliest sunset
Here’s a fun post by Andrew Plotkin. He’s a late riser, so the shortest day of the year, which is on the solstice, means nothing to him. He’s interested in the date of the...
Solving a snaky math problem with Mathematica
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’m in the middle of a three-lecture...
Date calculations on the iPhone
Back in early 2023, I wrote about combining some of my simple command-line date commands into a single Keyboard Maestro macro. This became my go-to system for quickly getting...
I checked out Practical Approximate Analysis of Beams and Frames from the University of Illinois library a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t dug into it deeply yet, but I smiled in...
Thanksgiving is not the last Thursday of November. I mean, it is this year, and it usually is, but that’s not how it’s determined. Since 1942, Thanksgiving—the US one, not the...
NASA fact sheets—missing and found
While I was putting together my recent post on Maya calendar calculations, I tried to get some information on the Moon from a NASA website. Specifically, a page with the prosaic...
I don’t care much about monitoring the traffic here, but analyzing web logs seemed like a good way to practice using Pandas. I used some old data analysis friends, like groupby,...
Some Maya calendar calculations
Longtime readers of this blog know I’m a sucker for calendrical calculations. So I couldn’t stop myself from doing some after reading this article by Jennifer Ouellette at Ars...
I expect Fox News to make bad charts as part of its predisposition to promote right wing views. But today I saw an incredibly bad chart that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t...
Except for a short period when its original developers were unable to keep up and the app suffered badly, Castro has been my podcast player for many years. Its triage system of...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Earlier this week, John D. Cook...
Two things came together over the past few days. First was my longstanding belief that winters here in the Chicago area were snowier when I was a kid than they are now. I’m not...
The wait for new Siri continues
Yesterday, I drove to Champaign-Urbana for the Illinois men’s home basketball opener. Because I’m going to the CSO concert tonight, I stayed here overnight. When I started my...
I stopped charting Apple’s quarterly results back in 2019 and don’t intend to return to it, but after seeing the recent posts at Six Colors and TidBITS, I thought I’d try out a...
Before going out for a bike ride this morning, I checked the Weather app to see the speed and direction of the wind. On days with a decent wind, I prefer to ride out against the...