Counting The Days of Blogging
This post markss halfway through the year, and nine and a half years of blogging every day! (That’s more than a century in “blog years” : – ) )
I intend to keep going to round out the ten years. Can’t stop now, can I!
A Solar Anniversary
This solstice marked the first anniversary of my solar panels, which were energized on 21 June 2022. The reports shows that over the first year, our small array generated enough to displace over 2.5 Mwh of consumption, which the web app reckons saved about 2 tons of Carbon emissions. (This is something like 1 / 2 billionth of global emissions.)
The Dave Barry Tribute “Great Names For A Band”
As always, I collect great names for a band. These phrases are real terms from real technical articles—I am not making them up!
“Insect Ears”
“Fluent Pomposity”
“Catastrophic forgetting”
“Model collapse”
“End Effectors”
Books
As always, each week I reviewed books I read. This quarter covered 4 non-fiction, 16 fiction books.
Fiction
Give Unto Others by Donna Leon
So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
Confidence by Rafael Frumkin
Hopeland by Ian McDonald
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Sea Change by Gina Chung
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Someone in Time: Tales of Time Crossed Romance edited by Jonathan Strahan
Swamp Story by Dave Barry
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Season of Skulls by Charles Stross
Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
Non-Fiction
The Wandering Mind by Jamie Kreiner
The Status Revolution by Chuck Thompson
People of the Ecotone By Robert Michael Morrissey
On the Origin of Time by Thomas Hertog
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