Out of the Blue

Author: theazureshadow

  • Off to Amsterdam

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    It\’s my turn to visit Nathan. That\’s about a week in Amsterdam, starting in two hours when I begin the six-mile walk to the airport. Then up, across the Channel, and down into Schliphol where Nathan should be waiting. Lots of pictures when I return.

  • Symmetric Graph

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    xkcd is great today, but most of you probably won\’t understand. I wouldn\’t either, except my combinatorics teacher last year told us stories about Paul Erdos. (Look at the hover text on the comic image.) Paul Erdos was a mathematician famous for being prolific. He wrote (according to Wikipedia) over 1,500 articles with 511 individual…

  • Geek Fail, cross-platform style

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    Just remember this, kids: No matter what magical drivers you have installed, Windows doesn\’t REALLY understand Linux file systems. They may be civil to one another, might even share some good times, but at the heart of it, they\’re incompatible. Especially when it comes to symbolism. Those symbolic links will confuse Windows every time. I…

  • LiveJournal Crossposting

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    I\’ve been using WordPress to host my blog out of the blue for a while now. I post both to my blog and to LiveJournal (because community is good stuff). Today I discovered a plugin that does the cross-posting automatically. Hooray for laziness enablers! There was a slight edit necessary to get it to work…

  • New and Improved Book Tracker

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    Tonight I\’ve been working on my book tracker. I changed the database to have a table for authors, a table for books, and a table for readings (and a table to connect authors to books, but you probably don\’t care to know that). This means I have a lot more power to generate statistics about…

  • What does it all mean?

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    I just randomly picked up The Great Gatsby. I hadn\’t read it, and thought I ought to. But as I was reading, I came across the term \”football\” and failed to think of American football; I came across the term \”East\” and thought of Asia, rather than the East coast. I\’ve been substituting them for…

  • Destiny coming on a bit strong?

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    Tomorrow I take Sarah to Heathrow Airport to see her off. I read Neil Gaiman\’s journal today and noticed that he was in the UK for Eastercon, a science fiction convention. For kicks, I looked at the convention\’s web site. It is this weekend. At a hotel 1.6 miles from Heathrow airport (I could walk…

  • \”Shouldn\’t\’ve Been in There, Should You?\”

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    On the way back from Norwich a few days ago, Sarah and I climbed the cast-iron fence that encircled a cemetary. It was a singularly pleasant place with lush green grass and a large avenue of regal trees down the center. We sat on a bench and ate fudge we had bought at the market.…

  • Announcement

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    Sarah is here and it is wonderful. I may not post much over the next two weeks.

  • Satellite imagery

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    Where was this photo taken? What might live there? Do you want to visit? (I certainly do.) (Click for a larger version. And don\’t bother with metadata. It has been stripped by Photoshop.)