My mom sent along the photo at right as one in a collection of absurdities.  It nicely illustrates the paradox that many before me have poin...

Via my mom: George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the pho...

Often there's more to learn from failure than from success .  I've learned more than many have ...

Jonathan Edwards has an interesting post about the importance – the primacy, really – of attitude in programming.  The basic message is th...

From an excellent piece by Peggy Noonan, who seems to be seeing clearly once again: But Mr. Obama was supposed to be competent.

Walking the dogs at 3:30 am again, but this morning the moon is a bit higher in the sky, and much brighter than yesterday.  My walk was in t...

Lord Monckton (a well-known advocate for AGW skepticism) represented the “pro” side in a debate for this motion put before the Oxford Union ...

Interesting piece over at Watts Up With That? ...

But it just may be a different reason than you imagined ...

Out at 3:30 am to walk the dogs, and there was a nearly full moon hanging just above the horizon to our southwest.  It cast enough light for...

My friends hear me say that corruption pervades our politics, and many of them react by giving knowing looks “I knew that guy was crazy!” o...

Yesterday morning was a desert morning to remember.  Despite being almost June, the temperature was 34°F when I went out for my 3:30 am walk...

For years now, skeptics of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) have been pointing out the abundant evidence for a linkage between solar outpu...

Matt Might has a nice brief introduction to some of the more popular “advanced” programming languages .  Several of these look quite interes...

Interesting piece on the value (or not) of unit testing – from, of all places, MSDN .

Running on 5/22/10 (they took first place on each run):

The situation on the Korean peninsula looks very precarious to me (and to many other observers ).  There's the classic, oft-repeated pol...

Fascinating set of avalanche diagrams for various hash functions .  Like many analysis techniques, these take advantage of our perceptual sy...

Copernicus (1473-1543) was the astronomer who challenged the Roman Catholic Church's dogma of Earth-centricity (by demonstrating that th...

If I had to choose one person who was most responsible for my continuing interest in mathematics, it would be Martin Gardner (through his Sc...