Now that wordpress has good support for tags and a decent tag cloud widget, I can’t figure out what the point of categories is. I googled and everyone is very adamant that they are different things in a “no, no, … Continue reading →

I think I blogged before about how I am going to have a wall of heroes ifnwhen I get my own study ifnwhen we get our nice house. I started planning this about twenty years ago. I am gonna have … Continue reading →

I go through phases with drinking. Not just beer and wine but tea and coffee too. I’ll go three years drinking only black coffee and then, suddenly, I can’t stand it and I switch to tea. My current routine is … Continue reading →

Last year, we bought Lego Mindstorms with vague ideas of entering the First Lego League tournament but i was put off when I saw videos of previous competitions. The standard approach is to build a robot with pluggable arms that … Continue reading →

NYT has a nice piece about the absurdity of the campaign trail. People are asking the candidates about all kinds of shit like whether to get rid of the penny and the dollar bill and trying to make them eat … Continue reading →