The hardest logic puzzle I’ve encountered seems to be lost. At least I can find no reference to it online, so I’ve taken the liberties (or perhaps you view it as an injustice if you are the original author) to rewrite the problem here.
Tale of the Diseased MonksOne Sunday evening after working in the fields, [...]
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Mike Ladd’s Negrophilia - a review
Here’s an album I’ve been listening to a lot lately even though it’s over a year old. Some would call Mike Ladd a rapper. And so, I feel a little bashful about my first music review being a rap CD. Truth is there is some rapping on this CD, but don’t let that scare you [...]
jammed in too tight
So, I’m in this band, Concentric. I began it about 5 years ago as an outlet for my “songwriting.” Yes, the quotes around songwriting are intentional. When you write instrumental music, you sometimes feel that you’re not really writing music even though it may be more complex than vocal music. When are you done? Has [...]
graph - an overused word
This week I’ve been working on a first year report on a grant I have, to represent mechanical systems with graphs – part of the report has to be fairly well-simplifed as it may be seen by a US senator. So, I’ve been thinking about how well understood the concept of a graph is. Do [...]
finding the right energy
I want to take a simplified view of energy today. First off, why do we need energy?A. lighting: the original use of energy - old folks still refer to energy companies as the light company. People want to see when it’s dark - to read, to work more, to see what went bump in the [...]
why epicycle?
Putting the “epi-“ on the word “cycle” refers to the rotation of something upon something else. Remember that spirograph you had as a kid? Those fun little doodles are often the result of making a round piece rotate upon or within some other shape. So, this is a rather nice word, epicycle. It has some [...]
Math, Science, Design, and Repair
I’ve been taking an extended weekend to spend time with my parents andgrandmother who are visiting from up north. Most conversations revolvearound what we will see or saw in our day. But some of the mostrewarding conversations are with my dad talking about mechanical things.My dad has the world’s best mechanical intuition and can fix [...]
environmentally-friendly lawnmowing
It’s that time of year again (at least in this southern region) to fire up the lawnmower and make for a presentable abode. The recent Wired article on transgenic lawns is as captivating as any Wired article. I find it to essentially be a rebuttal to some NYTimes cover story that they reference. In short, [...]
plane ride to Paris
I had a dream last night that my wife and I were flying to Paris. Soundsgreat, but in the dream we never leave the airport. Itwas one of those anxious dreams where you never accomplish the menialtasks of, in this case, boarding an airplane. In the dream I havetrouble with the TSA people, which isn’t [...]
sticking with monopolies vs. antiestablishmentarianism
I’ve been interested in starting a blog for months now. When I happened upon Yahoo!’s new 360 approach earlier this week. I decided to jump in. After messing around with 360, I soon became dissatisified with it – no custom url’s, and the typical cartoon-y Yahoo! look and feel. My dissatification was compounded by the [...]
