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Emptying the kitchen cupboard for the electricians' arrival, I found a black mug I had lost track of a long time ago. I smiled. It still looks brand new, even though it's 22 years old. Never used, always carefully kept, it has preserved...
Can you imagine kids flying out the door after school, going to a field or playground and put together a pick-game? Probably not. But I know some of you readers did this as kids. But today, it seems almost fantastical It is by now a...
A very crunchy, very useful supplement for D20. Like, Minions, Arms & Armor suffers from a price tag just a little too high for its content. Review Originally Published March 13th, 2002 CONTENT Arms & Armor is Bastion Press’ second D20...
In a post about possible corruption in the government and finance sector, Paul Campos points to a news article entitled, “Howard Lutnick gives top Cantor Fitzgerald jobs to his sons Brandon and Kyle,” that features an adorable photo of...
It has been a while since I have sat down and wrote a blog post that is not directly related to programming or self-hosting. If I look back to 2023 I used to write about all sorts of different topics. I was reading the post 📦 Don't put...
Long-time reader Chris P. pointed me to this informative blog post by the Energy Institute at Haas (link) that compares different ways to plot time-series data with clear seasonality. The "canonical" plot for this data set is a column...
Three years ago, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) started formal programming for Love Data Week with workshops and panels to highight the critical role data play in teaching, research, and careers. Penn State and the other...
https://dominicroye.github.io/blog/spain-temperature-normals-openmeteo/ The author goes through his many choices for building the above chart, and gives the code and shows how they gathered the data for it. Thoughtful and thorough.
Life has been a little hectic lately. I've been spending most of my time finding someone to take over my apartment, packing, and getting ready for my move back to the Boston area. I'm excited to start my new job, and even more excited to...
On a gorgeous morning, it would seem incongruous to read the news about last night’s elections were it not for the incessant begging of crow fledglings up in the woods, two of them, competing to see who can sound the most pitiable.
This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I help readers understand complex issues within the world of film. Today’s article includes a bonus report for paying subscribers, titled “Predicting Movie Hits” (download link at...
I predicted what was going to happen the whole time, and I was happy to be right about most of it. Great to see Dustin Hoffman. I liked Leo Woodall, but there was this low-grade smirk on his face too much of the time. Anyway, thumbs up.
“No one has yet determined what the body can do.” (Spinoza) While it has always been thus, today more than ever, higher education consists of helping students find out what their bodies can do. We can, perhaps, limit this learning to...
Cliff Robertson and Sandra Dee in Gidget (1959) Vitals Cliff Robertson as Burt “The Big Kahuna” Vail, beach bum and Korean War Veteran Malibu, California, Summer 1959 Film: Gidget Release Date: April 10, 1959 Director: Paul Wendkos...