Geeky Friday Fun: Chocolate Chips Are Distributed Poisson
Lynne Kiesling Did you know that the numerical distribution of chocolate chips in commercially baked cookies is Poisson?
Miscellany
Project Kill Day
Lynne Kiesling Thoughts today on productivity instead of economics, energy, technology … I am in the middle of a run of about 5 Project-Kill Days trying to get the albatross of a book manuscript off of the to-do list. Project-Kill Day is a great idea for me, as my biggest personal foible is my inability …
What Will Futurists Do in the Future?
Michael Giberson The Economist observes that our present is not quite like some futurists of the past had projected, and provides advice to new futurists seeking to improve on the past. Among other things, they recommend “think small”: “The best what-lies-ahead book of 1982 was Megatrends, by John Naisbitt, which prophesied the future of humanity. …
Happy New Year!
Lynne Kiesling Happy New Year from KPLandia!
Girly Geek Chic
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a fun new find on my radar screen: Inkling Magazine (on the hunch that science rocks), and its associated blog Inky Circus. Great, amusing, witty, girly geek chic. In particular check out the entry on their She’s Such A Geek Photo Contest. See, it’s cool to be a girly geek …
T.C. Boyle’s “I Dated Jane Austen”
Lynne Kiesling A delightful little holiday diversion: T.C. Boyle’s short story I Dated Jane Austen is available to read at his website, complete with woodcut comic illustrations.
How Do We Know the Laws of Physics Will Persist?
Lynne Kiesling I’m not going to go off on a Schroedinger’s cat tangent or anything, but there’s a really neat article in today’s New York Times about the laws of physics. In a nutshell, here’s the dilemma: how do we know that the laws of physics are true? Can we prove their truth in an …
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Another Technical Comment
Lynne Kiesling The RSS feeds seem to be … sticky. I had a couple of them come through successfully late this morning, but the past couple of posts have not shown up, and it’s been more than an hour. What gives?
House Renovation: Have We Got Concrete?
Lynne Kiesling Over the past several years, some kind readers have inquired after the state of our home. Here’s the backstory: three years ago we bought a neglected 1924 Craftsman home in Chicago. We did some preliminary work (air conditioning, plaster, refinished wood), but then spent three years living in the place and working with …
Technical Update
Lynne Kiesling I think that I’ve just updated the RSS 2.0 template to send full posts out on the RSS feed. Testing, testing … I’ve also updated the RSS 1.0 template, and I’ve reset Feedburner so that it uses the RSS 2.0 feed. Anything you think I’m missing? Please let me know. It’s interesting; when …