From my notes (wording may be imprecise or elliptical ( Read more... )

Read many interesting things this morning, rather than getting up and doing anything.

So I commend these links to you, so you too can waste large amounts of time reading interesting things on the internet.

( lengthy Mindful Link Propogation )

2D Goggles: The Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
by Sydney Padua
"So Historically Accurate, it's Almost a Documentary!"

Collected here for Your Convenience

Lovelace: Origins parts 1&2

Model Sheets, etc.
Brunel, Wolverine of the Early Victorians
Babbage, Mad Genius with a Difference
Ada Lovelace, the Byronic Woman

Lovelace and Babbage vs. the ( Read more... )

Just watched The Man from Earth. It was really good. Low budget, but who needs a budget when your movie is almost a bunch of people talking in a cabin living room. Just good writing, good directing, and good acting, and it had those ( Read more... )

I've been fascinated in recent years watching dynasties move through European history, the Habsburgs chief among them ( Read more... )

I happened to check my feed set that includes Language Log today (i don't check it often), and I happened to go back far enough to find lots of interesting things.

I really like the line: "Strunk and White's brainless little pamphlet of 19th-century grammar nonsense".

Not that that offered any new insight.

There was also a graphviz-produced* ( Read more... )

And that's it.

The first african american president and the first president to speak to a new generation.

I was standing at the refrigerator looking at the ketchup bottle, when suddenly I thought, "Ha! I bet the Etruscan 'K' is backwards! That would be awesome!". And I checked, and it was. And it was awesome ( Read more... )

First day of class was somewhat mixed, but good ( Read more... )

on the bus ride over to SJ today, my iPod played one of my more patriotic songs, "At Home with the Exiles". I'm going to post the lyrics to that, and the other particularly patriotic song i have that comes to mind, "Jefferson and Liberty ( Read more... )