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Are you still yourself, even now?

Don — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:24:58 +0000

The Gentle Seduction.

The Things by Peter Watts

Don — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:02:58 +0000

Clarkesworld Magazine – Online Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts

I love the movie The Thing.

I love this telling of the same story from the Thing’s side just as much.

What you think you know about mortgage interest deduction is wrong

Don — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:27:01 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/magazine/305deduction.1.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Anatomy of an image processing app

Don — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:53:24 +0000

iPhone Sudoku Grab: How does it all work?

This is a pretty neat article from a fellow who wrote an iPhone app that lets you take a picture of a sudoku puzzle and then solve it, manually or automatically. It’s a neat explanation of how it works, complete with sample images and step-by-steps.

Back from the dead

Don — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:54:53 +0000

Amusing; it looks like I started the process to move this blog almost exactly a year ago.

Oh, it’s back up now. :)

Looks like the War on Christmas is heating up.

Don — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:06:14 +0000

Good ol’ Santa, keeping the kids and the baby jesus statue safe. Thank goodness he’s got his constitutionally protected firearm so he can do it!

I do wonder, however, if this is the next iteration past “bringing a knife to a gunfight.” After all, dude’s got a bomb. Is shooting him so he drops it in front of you really the most effective strategy?