The Looseleaf Papers

For obnoxious reasons, I need to install Google Chrome on Linux instead of just using chromium.

Lately, the update-mime-database step of installing Debian packages has been taking way too long (on the order of three or four minutes).

Human minds have a bad habit of polishing their work until the seams are invisible. It’s akin to movie magic or stage illusions.

OpenSCAD is a wrapper around OpenCSG, a constructive solid geometry library. It works reasonably well for producing STL files from geometric primitives.

“Last Week Tonight”, comedian John Oliver’s TV show, recently discussed how the US does torture and why it doesn’t work.

I almost made this change to my about:config:

The curvature of Earth’s gravity field is approximately 8 centimeters per kilometer. This produces horizon effects even within a single large building.

From a post entitled “A Physicist Reads The Lord of the Rings”, written by a friend of mine who’s a big Tolkien fan:

Despite hitting its funding goal of $500,000 last year, development on the game is grinding to a halt, with Stephenson writing on the game’s Kickstarter page that CLANG is now an “evenings and weekends” project because the money has run out, and many developers have sought contract work …