Make your own snowflake is probably intended to be used for names but I tried the title of the blog and made a pretty one.
Try it yourself.
Try it yourself.
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Friday, 7 November 2014
A good one with rhymes and escalation though an unsatisfying ending that might be the whole point.
Wonderful rhymes though some references may seem a little old-fashioned (read racist!) for today.
Fox in Socks and One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish and If I Ran a Zoo from above have the best rhymes. If you read them a little fast and get the rhythm it's like you are a beat poet riffing in a smokey room during a poetry slam.
I do not do that as smoking is bad for you and I am reading them to Linus, typically at bedtime.
Saturday, 27 September 2014
Excellent. Once you can teleport to space it removes all kinds of weight limits and obstacles that currently constrain our space program, then write a book about the consequences.
In some ways similar to the series of John Varley novels that starts with Red Thunder. Young protagonists get unlimited impulsive power and start a space program from there.
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Friday, 12 September 2014
Saturday, 30 August 2014
This wiring gobbledygook is a test for the control panel my son and I are building. Lots of cool lighted switches and push buttons that turn off and on other LEDs, fans and buzzers. This on is wired so the column switch and the row switch must be on to light a light.
Now I have to transfer this to a printed circuit board and solder a lot of switches and lights.
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Friday, 15 August 2014
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Monday, 4 August 2014
A Roman Catholic priest gives the right answer when asked, "How does the Rapture figure into your faith?"
(via The Slacktavist)
...Essentially all of this can be a great distraction from what believers should really be concerned about: bringing hope, mercy and compassion to human history, and participating in the struggle to transform the world and its systems toward fairness and equity for all God's children. Matthew 25 says it all: the Final Judgment will be based on how we have cared for the least among us.When I ask the kids I teach, "How can we be a good people?", "How can we love God, and show we love God?", often they answer by saying they could pray, some suggest some actions but not many. I tell them that prayer is good and also here are some actions you can perform, the Corporal Works of Mercy, which are from Matthew 25 and the parable of the Sheep and the Goats: Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, care for the sick, welcome the stranger. That's why the rapture, besides not being in scripture, also doesn't matter. We have some great suggestions for what we can do to make the world a better place, you don't even need to be Christian to think they are good ideas. I am trying to get better at them.
(via The Slacktavist)
Friday, 1 August 2014
A fortune in emeralds on the Caribbean seafloor was too much temptation for a Delaware law firm likely to be sanctioned for using the courts to attempt to legitimize what has turned out to be a hoax.
Like a bad movie plot - accusations from other treasure hunters that the find was to good to be true and analysis that showed the emeralds to be coated with modern epoxy to enhance their appearance have left questions about how much the law firm knew after the suicide of the original finder.
(via Delaware News Journal)
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Monday, 14 July 2014
There was a post on BoingBoing referencing a list of anonymous Wikipedia edits from Norwegian government IP addresses. Cory Doctorow wanted the anonymous editors and the Norwegian Givernment to go public and involve the Norwegian wikipedia community in their editing and left a touch of a suspicious tone to the request. Subsequent commenters tried to figure out whether there was an issue by randomly exploring some of the data. The original supplier of the data merely plots edits as a function of time, but didn't show more work to describe the data and see if there is a story worth telling. Plugging that data into Tableau lets us look at many variables vs. time and to look at the articles that were edited as well as the times and IP address from which they were edited. What follows is my analysis in the BoingBoing comments.
Without the appropriate data set I can only speculate, but this number of edits may even be the average number of edits for an organization of the Norwegian government's size. Also might be interesting to see the total number of edits on these titles vs. the Norwegian government edits. The poster did say that it was only the anonymous edits. The view below suggests that rather than posting at lunchtime, there are peaks at first thing in the morning and 1pm (maybe lunch is at 1?) and that editing seems to occur throughout the workday, though there are variations between years (not shown).
As to the topics, the top few that I see that possibly could be more open are the edit for Jan Egeland, and Karin Yrvin, both Labour party politicians. What is the etiquette over editing (or having staff edit) your own wikipedia article again? But then the second highest edit over these years is a template for football club odds. Other non government related edits are a quiz show QuizDan, and some organ enthusiast editing the Vox Humana topic 7 times in 2009. Titles with more than 4 edits are shown below, these 40 titles with 271 edits represent less than 20% of the 1437 total edits for all 919 titles.
There are only 35 total IP addresses, 29 from government and 6 from Parliament. On the chart below thin are Parliament and thick are government offices IPs.
I agree there is nothing nefarious going on here, but a few charts more than a plot of total edits can help to show that.
Just a few plots of variables vs. other variables to find relationships and tabulate some quantities shows more than a boring plot of amount vs. time. One could go further and classify the articles and perhaps include the total edits. It really depends on the questions you are trying to answer or the hypothesis you are investigating.
Sunday, 13 July 2014
You cannot shirk your duty. You are a Wright of the Ancient Calling, and because you have discovered or created a new technological threat to Humanity's existence you must undergo Preparation and submit to the Proctors for Examination and Assessment. They will make the final Judgement of your discovery and decide for Integration or Supression.
This is the way it must be and this is what your Heart and Intellect and your Duty to the Oath must be telling you.
This is the way it must be and this is what your Heart and Intellect and your Duty to the Oath must be telling you.
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Monday, 7 July 2014
Friday, 4 July 2014
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
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