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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Field Day
I went to SBARA‘s station at Lake Elizabeth in Fremont around 1200 UTC and spent about half an hour ttrying to make phone contacts on 20m. I only made two contacts. The signal quality was terrible, apparently due to too … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Radio
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Field Day irony
Today is Field Day, part of the purpose of which is to practice amateur radio communications by methods that would be used in emergencies, when normal power sources and communications systems might be unavailable. Today at home I’ve experienced two … Continue reading
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George Carlin, 12 May 1937 — 22 Jun 2008
Who else but George Carlin could have gotten the “seven dirty words” shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits into a Supreme Court decision? Carlin truly was a Man for the Millenium.
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It’s 3 AM. Do you know what your computer is doing?
Some years ago, a cryptographer proposed a “Chinese Lottery” in which some consumer good such as televisions sold in a particular country (e.g., China) would have an embedded chip that would be used by the government for brute-force cryptanalysis. The … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Cryptography
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Petition to End Women’s Suffrage
I wish I could say that I was surprised at how many female students at Padua Academy were willing to sign a petition to end women’s suffrage. The issue seems to be controversial at UVM. Personally, I’m in favor of … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom and liberty, School & Education
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GTK+ printing
I’m just starting to learn about printing in GTK+. The documentation provides a good API reference, but is a bit intimidating, and I didn’t find much in the way of sample code. There’s a sample called “printedit” in libegg, but … Continue reading
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Urgent care that isn’t
I needed some relatively minor medical care, and wanted to get it done today rather than wait for an appointment to see a doctor. It wasn’t serious enough to require a trip to the emergency room, so I drove to … Continue reading
Posted in Customer satisfaction, Health
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Nonpareil status
I’m still making progress towards a new release on Nonpareil. Sometimes it seems like the more work I do, the more I find that needs to be done.
Posted in Calculators, Nonpareil
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R.I.P. George A. Michael, Father of Supercomputing, 16 February 1926 — 5 June 2008
I first met George Michael at a conference, and on several occasions we had interesting discussions about various computers including the DEC PDP-1. He had been in poor health for several years, and passed away last Thursday. Some of his … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, In memoriam
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Katsiki Yiouvetsi and The Fall
Two friends and I went out to dinner and a movie in Palo Alto tonight. We had a wonderful dinner at Evvia; I had the Katsiki Yiouvetsi, which is a goat casserole braised with pearl onions, artichokes, and feta cheese. … Continue reading
Posted in Comestibles, Film
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