Cube x 5

One of the things I bought myself with my birthday Amazon gift card was a Rubik’s Professor Cube.
I bought a Rubik’s Cube soon after reading Douglas Hofstadter’s March 1981 article in Scientific American. I’ve never been all that fast at unscrambling the cube, both because my fingers don’t move that fast and because I haven’t [...]

Latest last

Oh. I just found this:
Back in May we unveiled our project to build a new version of Last.fm.Our goal was to lay the foundation for an online music experience morecompelling, accessible, and discoverable than anything that had gonebefore.
That was last July. So… not only did they not properly handle duplicate artists, same-name artists, multiple bootstrapping, [...]

Last but not best

I’ve been playing with last.fm.  It has some nice features.  It has some bad ones.
For instance, when you start using their software, it bootstraps your listening history from iTunes. Trouble is, if you use iTunes on more than one computer, it bootstraps only the first one you use it on.  I didn’t know that and [...]

Presidecade

So I was reading the LA Times endorsement of Obama which mentions he was born in the 1960s and thought, hm, if he’s elected, we’ll have skipped the 1950s.  Not that the gap couldn’t be filled in later, of course; but is it the first skipped decade for presidential births?
No. We missed the 1810s (Lincoln [...]

Is any comment necessary?

Well, it shouldn’t be, but probably is.
Unquestionably, the Chaffey Community Republican Women Federated are not representative of the Republican party. They are, however, the kind of crop you can expect to reap when you sow the seed McCain and Palin are spreading:
In San Bernardino County, a Republican women’s organization sent a monthly newsletter to its [...]

ISS muss sein

It’s entirely possible I’ve seen the International Space Station pass overhead before, and mistook it for an airplane.
Tonight, thanks to spaceweather.com, I knew when and where to look to know what I was looking at.
Sky events, good weather, personal schedules, and absence of memory lapses rarely conspire in my favor around here. (That I’ve managed [...]

Coop’n'gi

Finally we got the walls completed and the door up on the chicken coop.  That’s it for the heavy lifting.
Friday night’s karate classes were cancelled, as I found out when I got there, so I got my new gi today. Having finished my first 6 months (actually 7) and signed on for more I’m now [...]