Cutting steel and other manly materials part 1 - November 5, 2007, 7:31 am
Cutting steel and other manly materials part 1 I've more or less moved in to my new place in Rochester and today will only be my third day of work at Klein Steel. The first two days were a whirl...

Application of High School Algebra - October 2, 2007, 4:07 pm
Application of High School level Algebra 2 Problem set Consider the following situation. The cartoonist refers to the fact that sound or other types of waves emanating from one focal poin...

Zumbooruck - September 25, 2007, 1:50 pm
Zumbooruck Every once in awhile a coincidence occurs that makes you wonder if Zaphod Beeblebrox didn't just engage the Heart of Gold's improbability drive. On a lazy Sunday this past s...

Randomness - September 12, 2007, 1:10 pm
Randomness I've always been curious about so called random number generators. Briefly my curiosity was transformed into virulent skepticism. I was working on a genetic algorithm and noticed some...

iPhone owners to Apple - We thought you loved us - September 7, 2007, 12:05 pm
iPhone owners to Apple - We thought you loved us Recently Apple slashed the price of its iPhone by 200 dollars. The New York Times reported that Apple fanatics felt betrayed by the way Apple hyped th...

Sin City and Arabian Nights and Days - August 30, 2007, 6:17 pm
Sin City and Arabian Nights and Days Frank Miller's Sin City and Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days I recently (finally) saw Sin City and afterwards realized that most of the "good...

Deep Fried without the Guilt - August 21, 2007, 4:40 pm
Deep Fried without the Guilt This summer some friends of mine were discussing the innumeracy of the set of objects that can be fried and in a separate conversation the unique and stunning cuisine ava...

Faster than Light - August 21, 2007, 4:13 pm
Faster than Light A recent New York Times article describes the fascinating possibility that some non-things, such as shadows, can travel faster than the speed of light. NY Times Article At lea...

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