Blog Posts
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A renewed perspective on gift-giving, and a reminder of the value of physical possessions
I'm about half-way through reading Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police and there's a part where the protagonists are exchanging birthday gifts. A...
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Registering my own domain - Goodbye Gmail (sort of)!
I have a different randomly-generated password for every online account that matters. In the event I couldn't retrieve the password and had...
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Diffusing bombs and cyclic groups
Apologies for not using LaTex for the math notation. Haven't figured out how to do that yet. Reality television gets a bad wrap for being br...
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Cook-along for episode one of Easy-Bake Battle - coxinha!
Found a new show on Netflix called Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition. The contestants are non-pro cooks challenged with preppin...
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How fallen trees refined my understanding of entropy
Today was the first week in months that the main trail in Chadwick Lake (Newbugh, NY) wasn't caked in snow, which gave me (and mom) a chance...
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Meal-prep planning with AnyList
AnyList is sick. I use it for both logging recipes for my weekly meal-prep rotation and as a grocery shopping list. I pay $10.80 per year to...
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Using VisiData as my expense-tracking tool
I've tried budget-tracking apps and spreadsheets but none of em lasted more than a couple weeks. VisiData is the only tool that got me to st...
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The Turkish verb meaning "to hate" requires the ablative (-den/dan) case
(See here for why etmeyi has to take the accustative case.) Consider the following sentence: "I hate going to school." A simple and trivial...