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 I take attendance by having the students answer a question (previously 2019 ). What is the most useless technology ever invented? By popula...

 I forgot to write attributions so here are some more-scrambled-than-usual quotes: "Thank you! You've been sucked into the trap alo...

WHEREAS the ongoing pandemic and various other elements of environmental, social, political, economic, and biological disaster loom large, a...

Today is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing . (Of course, at birth he was probably very bad at abstract reasoning and proofs,...

... and I'm out (previously: In which I am about to cancel my Verizon home DSL and Verizon update ). The service continued to be terrib...

I have not had home internet service since July 18th. My provider is Verizon DSL. At this point I have called, emailed, tweeted, and interac...

Dear readers, If you can read this, then an incredibly unlikely sequence of steps has succeeded. Huzzah! There is currently some sort of...

There is a homework due this morning. The single most popular post on the course message board occurred last night. 1:10am: "do we h...

My desk already had fun math puzzles, as decoration and to occupy my hands and mind while I spin my brain-wheels on research problems. To ...

Ack. Here's an article on manhood , with many not-what-I-expected statistics that women are out-earning men, adapting to new social and ...

Weirdly, blogspot.fr crashes every time I try to publish a post which includes accented characters. How is this possible? The language has...

Amazon will let vendors -- who own items -- post those items for sale at a fixed price. Ebay lets vendors post items for sale by auction, w...

How can you tell that I've been watching movies on R.'s Netflix account? One glance at this screen should explain it: That's ri...

I have become recently frustrated at the unusability of teh internet [sic]. No, I don't want your cookies or to run Flash... and as a c...

Two recent items of internews (internet+news = stories that are popular for a few hours) regarding Turing machines, my second-favorite type ...

I just got an email from iTunes informing me that, because I had purchased an album online, I was eligible for an extra song, for free! I h...

I spent the last hour getting Paradelle to play DVDs, following a series of unilluminating error messages across the vast wasteland of Ubunt...

I just watched this lecture by Lawrence Lessig .* It inspires me to do good out in the world. Maybe I should have gone to law school? I...

I've been playing around with Picasa. It's missing some features I really liked about iPhoto. I can't import my albums from iPh...

I have amassed 30,000+ pictures since I got my first digital camera six years ago. For the past few years, I have been using iPhoto to orga...