Worried about my MacBook
My MacBook has done a fair bit of random crashing today. I’ve had it since 2013, and I’ve had problems with it before, so it wouldn’t be surprising if something […]
2018
Happy birthday Pat
Today would have been my brother Patrick’s 45th birthday. I’ve written a quick birthday post about him here almost every year, usually with a photo. This year’s photo is a […]
Learning Statistics
I’m starting to read a book on statistics, and this is from the beginning of the chapter on probability: If you are reading this book as part of a course […]
Day One outage
It might be time to stop using Day One. I last blogged about Day One in 2016, when they had released a new version and switched to their own proprietary […]
two funny Batman comics
A couple of recent Batman-related comics: Uncle Batman’s Vengeance Juice from Diesel Sweeties (also coffee-related, so covering my two main interests in life) Robins from SMBC (not coffee-related, but still […]
Digg is probably done
I just found out that Digg has been bought by a company named “BuySellAds.” So… that doesn’t sound good. The previous owner, Betaworks, used it as a kind of “curated” […]
Learning Azure
I have a project going at work that might (or might not) eventually have something to do with Azure. So I’m using this as an excuse to finally learn a […]
Democracy and Facebook and other depressing news
I’ve mentioned here before that The Interpreter is probably the best email newsletter I get from the NY Times. I’ve been catching up a bit with my “read/review” email folder […]
How to use a Stopwatch in C# incorrectly
Here’s something I did wrong this week. And, after realizing I’d done it wrong, I remembered that I’d made the same exact mistake in the past. So I’m going to […]
Kindle Paperwhite
I finally broke down and bought a Kindle Paperwhite this week. When I bought it, it was on sale for $40 off, for Prime members. (It looks like that deal […]