g’nōō-bûr

I really try to keep my mental dalliances under control. I have a million projects I’d like to work on but I realize I have priorities. Then, something hits your fancy and you do some math in your head while in a traffic queue. And then, even though the thought is complete, […]

Synergy: mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct efforts.

Here is the source file.

“What is our community, and how might that community be reconciled with our freedom? How far do our obligations reach? How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?”

There are wireless mice & keyboards, printers, and now there are even wireless USB hubs. Go ahead and buy them. But don’t count on me to smile when you ask me to fix them. Again and again. For 4 hours at a time.
The surest way to make something not work all […]

Particle Physics Rap:

The doodle of a physicist (regarding the energy problem, a physicist’s doodle is better than a layman’s in depth analysis) trying to find the maximums and minimums of possibilities in a problem. The problem is Sustainable Energy. The book is full of bad news, given our huge energy consumption.
To sum up, […]

I just got an 8inch 500Mhz Celeron Fujitsu Stylistic LT C500 tablet and GPS antenna. They’re for my newly acquired travel/family car/truck, a 2006 “first-gen” Scion xB. The tablet fits perfectly in the unusually-laid out dash. Figured it would be funner to use a full x86 PC for GPS and MP3s than […]

My Ubuntu experience keeps getting better.
This month, I finally moved my main dual-core AMD64 machine to Ubuntu, because I realized I was going to want to buy 4GB or more of RAM. (The currently prevalent RAM, DDR2 is so cheap it makes it more worth upgrading your whole rig than buying more of the old […]

“Intellectual property” is a silly euphemism. Maybe if we were honest about what it is, then society would more readily be able to make it better? Just an idea.

OK, you might say I have too much time on my hands. Really, though, there is an odd symmetry to the map. Look at the highways. And I hadn’t played with the GIMP in a while. (The colors, of course, do not actually correspond to geographical team affiliation.)