I came across an article by Brian Kernighan. The article is about a piece of C code written by Rob Pike, apparently for a book Pike and Kernighan wrote together, The Practice of Programming.

Spider vision
Morehouse, Nathan
Current Biology, Volume 30, Issue 17, R975 - R980

This is a great article, and it only has 6 pages.

An investigation into the origins of the famous fortune cookie saying All progress occurs because people dare to be different led me to a dead end, and I missed these important points.

Stanislaw Lem wrote Imaginary Magnitude, a highly imaginative book.

I was recently presented with a fairly puzzling ad image.

I got a fortune cookie slip of paper (twice!) that read:

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

I got a set of non-transitive Grime dice from UK enterprise Maths Gear.

I use Arch Linux, a simple, lightweight Linux distribution. You should, too. It’s not hard.

One of the things Arch users do is update, regularly. I find that weekly updates are adequate. Running sudo pacman -Syu every 7 to 10 days keeps problems away.

What happens when pacman updates fail, or updated package downloads get really slow?

I looked in the systemd journals on my Qotom fanless server. I saw something reporting a Postgres database problem.

I got an interesting letter in the US Postal mail.