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A group of school children wonder why storks don't nest in their village when they come to other towns around them, and they make changes to make their town friendly for storks again. Vintage children's book.
The Mersenne Twister (MT) is a random number generator with good statistical properties but bad cryptographic properties. In buzzwords, it’s a PRNG but not a CSPRNG. This post will show how the internal state of a MT generator can be...
A holiday in Glasgow and Edinburgh, a gig in Hereford, new UniFi WiFi, ‘Rose of Nevada’ and ‘Wake Up Dead Man’.
“I had been for the past year an editor of a new encyclopedia, and a hack who had been fired, after turning in several poor and inaccurate articles (he cribbed from older encyclopedias, and even his cribbing was mixed up, inaccurate, and...
Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 1...
The fact that many key figures of thermodynamics have had tragic lives makes good material for (dark) jokes in class. Sadi Carnot died of cholera aged 36. Boltzmann hanged himself, Lavoisier was decapitated, von Mayer was forcibly...
It’s that time of year, and this is that kind of blog, so here’s the 2026 edition of my traditional Mother’s Day greeting. Happy Mother’s Day from the baaaadest mutha of them all! Since since we’re talkin’ ’bout Shaft… The post Happy...