Spring Cleaning
Inspired a bit by Marie Kondo, perhaps, I’ve been doing some spring cleaning this weekend. I haven’t actually watched her Netflix show or read her book, but it’s hard not […]
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New Year’s Day 2019
It’s 7am on New Year’s Day, and I don’t have anything big planned today, so I might as well get started on my traditional New Year’s Day blog post. I’ve […]
Illegitimi non carborundum
Here’s an oddball digression for a rainy Sunday morning: Somehow or other, the phrase “don’t let the bastards get you down” came into my head this morning. I vaguely remember […]
The Great American Read results
The Great American Read PBS series wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, with To Kill A Mockingbird as the number one book on the list. Here’s a link to […]
Remembering Harlan Ellison
Following up on Thursday’s post, here are links to a few remembrances of Ellison by some of his friends and colleagues: Mark Evanier Leonard Maltin John Scalzi Peter David Cory […]
Harlan Ellison, RIP
I was sad to hear of Harlan Ellison’s passing today. Here’s an obituary from the AP (via the NYT) and another one from the Chicago Tribune. (I haven’t seen an […]
Library Book Sale
I went to the Somerville Library Book Sale after work today and picked up a few things. It was a pretty good deal: four Rick Geary books and two lemon […]
The Great American Read
I enjoyed watching The Great American Read launch special on PBS a couple of weeks ago. The idea is to present a list of 100 (fiction) books as American’s most-loved […]
Library book sale
My local library is having a book sale soon, so I’m spending some time this morning gathering up some dusty old paperbacks to get rid of. This turned into more […]
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 […]