I think my favorite thing about Windows 7 is how it has a limit on the length of the total path name of files, which means that if you move a file from one directory to another, you randomly get an error. Excellent feature, which makes debugging build scripts very enjoyable and not at all […]

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My dreams are nothing if not inventive. Just woke up from dreaming I was at a Rocky Horror Picture Show-style viewing of Britney Spears’ 2002 masterpiece Crossroads (really of a TV-series spin-off of the movie). For some reason, this took place in Москва in Russian. This happened with my long-dead father, whose Russian had improved […]

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I may have spent too much mental capacity pondering questions for Quiz Night XL lately; as I was preparing a torus¹⁾ with cheese for a snack, I found myself pondering the fractal dimension of bread. Of course, I’m not contemplating any pleb piece of real-life bread succumbing to stupid rules of quantization, but the Platonic […]

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