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Keeping Myself Busy

Diane wrote 1 week ago: The only way for me to keep myself from thinking too much is keeping myself busy. I’ve been tr … more →

Tags: Life, Career, Personal

OpenID:I Still Don't Get It

Diane wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been reading Kristina’s blog last night, and been thinking of unifying my online pe … more →

Of Patience and Programmer Jokes

Diane wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been going through a lot lately, and I believe there’s only one lesson I need to le … more →

Tags: Life, Humor

WRT-54GL at decent prices.

iqag wrote 1 month ago: While we’re on an OpenWRT kick, let me mention that Amazon has the guaranteed flashable WRT-54 … more →

Tags: Gadgets, Interweb, Linux and free software, Security and Privacy

Yay Technology!

tattooedlibgal wrote 1 month ago: I’m kind of a geek, I admit it. Until recently, I was the head geek at my branch.  (My Distric … more →

Tags: Library Technology, Online summer reading, technology

About that iPod Touch...8 comments

Robert wrote 8 months ago: …I got one. The story left off with me giving up trying to justify spending $399 for the 32 G … more →

Tags: technology, Apple, iPod, ipod touch

Some programmer needs to make this a reality2 comments

Robert wrote 9 months ago: From the always-inventive xkcd: … more →

Tags: technology, Social Software, xkcd, Humor, Funny, Virus, YouTube, Comments

It's official: They're prime1 comment

Robert wrote 10 months ago: The numbers believed to be the 45th and 46th Mersenne primes have been proven to be prime. The 45th … more →

Tags: Crypto, Math, mathematics, mersenne, mersenne prime, Prime, Prime Numbers

Estimating the digits in a Mersenne prime -- for dummies5 comments

Robert wrote 10 months ago: At the end of this post, I made a totally naive guess that the recently discovered candidate to be t … more →

Tags: Math, Crypto, Number Theory, mersenne, mersenne prime, Excel

Lifetime reading list for geeks2 comments

Robert wrote 11 months ago: Here’s a list of 50 Books Every Geek Should Read from InsideTech. I thought this list might go … more →

Tags: Books, Math, technology, Geek, Neal Stephenson, Reading

How big is 10 to the 20th? 2 comments

Robert wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a great illustration from George Gamow’s classic book One Two Three… Infini … more →

Tags: Math, Science, Graphics, gamow, numbers, visualization

Show and tell9 comments

Robert wrote 1 year ago: Today, my 4-year old (who goes by “L” here) is “Student of the Day” at her M … more →

Tags: Teaching, life in academia, Early education, Humor, Math, Montessori, Preschool, Professor

(Super-)Powers of 26 comments

Robert wrote 1 year ago: Driving in to work this morning, I suddenly felt my vision go blurry to the point where I literally … more →

Tags: Math, Personal, Number Theory, Geek, nerd, Superhero, binary

12 Brain Hacks from Wired

iqag wrote 1 year ago: Wired today offers up 12 (broad categories) of hacks to improve IQ and mental performance, and a few … more →

Tags: Education

Tom Lehrer enters eighty-first year2 comments

iqag wrote 1 year ago: Google officially and belatedly commemorated Tom Lehrer’s 80th birthday. I think this may be t … more →

Tags: Cultural Stuff, Education

ZYGO SCRABBLE CLUBS

iqag wrote 1 year ago: Nifty: ZYGO SCRABBLE is a charitable society, established for propagation of the game of Scrabble in … more →

Tags: Parenting, South Asia, Education

Jericho cancelled (again)3 comments

Robert wrote 1 year ago: Jericho, which might be the only TV show this blog has ever highlighted, has been cancelled — … more →

Tags: Science Fiction, Jericho, CBS

Thanks, Gary Gygax4 comments

Robert wrote 1 year ago: Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has died at age 69: Gygax and Dave Arneson developed … more →

Tags: Personal, Dungeons and Dragons, D&D, Gary Gygax, Role Playing games

Jericho returns6 comments

Robert wrote 1 year ago: Just a programming/public service announcement: Jericho, the only television show I really actually … more →

Tags: Personal, Jericho, TV


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