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raising calvin
I grew up on a steady diet of Calvin & Hobbes. The still-famous cartoon strip by Bill Watterson was a fixture in our local newspaper during the entirety of my teenage existence, one of the sole reasons I read the paper that I delivered door to door, clipping out my favourite strips and then later
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pi dayrectory
Oh, remember back in 2023 when my attempt to run a web server from a raspberry pi computer in my basement got hacked and some turd of a botscam hacker tried to hold my data hostage for a few thousands of dollars in bitcoin? Yeah, but I do. I tell people that there was nothing
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pi day
May fifth is definitely not pi day, that annual nerdy celebration of a happy mathematical confluence between the calendar and one of the worlds favourite pastries, pie. Normally the geeky among us celebrate with an extra helping of dessert on March fourteenth: three fourteen. Three one four. May fifth is, however, something of an anniversary
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photo phails
There was a time when I would have proclaimed myself a real photographer. I didn’t just have the right equipment, but I knew what I was doing, took thousands of photos, and even sold some pics. Not only would I likely need to wipe the dust off my SLR right now, I’m not even sure
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from high altitude.
Anyone in search of an example of modern evolutionary pressure look no further than the common fly. Back in the city, like up high in the mountains, flies are ubiquitous. But unlike the mountains, the cities are filled streets, buildings, parks and coffee shops full of people. City flies need to be smart and fast.