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Tomato Puzzle 1 Aug 2012 | 11:15 am
Did you know that supermarket tomatoes taste bland because their growers have been selecting for uniform color? Yeah, there is a link between the gene that promotes uniformity in color and the deterio...
Extracting File Name from Named Variable in Batch File 1 May 2012 | 03:02 pm
I needed this in order to use REN, which takes a pathless file name as its second argument. Pretty easy with numeric variables or for loop variables. Here’s for loop variables: set fileNameWithPath=C:...
Fault of Our Society 13 Apr 2012 | 02:44 pm
What is all this ranting about the faults of society? I know full well that it’s easy to complain about society. Don’t all the losers complain about it, for having lost something, whether in reality o...
Moral Impasse 13 Apr 2012 | 01:55 pm
Seeing Martin Lee Anderson’s death on video really struck a cord with me. Those involved are obviously guilty of gross negligence, and they passed their exam at the trial by what amounts to an apology...
On Occupy Wall Street 30 Nov 2011 | 04:31 am
It looks like the Occupy movement is starting to fade. It’s no secret that I’ve passively supported them, not with donations or blog posts, but rather with polemics with my work colleagues. What does ...
Prolog random permutation 29 Jun 2011 | 03:21 pm
Permuting a given list comes up as a subroutine of the REVERSE game. I’ve seen a pretty crazy implementation of shuffle which involves extracting a random element from the source list and putting it i...
Prolog “sorted” predicate 29 Jun 2011 | 02:50 pm
My interest in Prolog was recently revived, after briefly courting the P vs NP problem, which, I was hoping, might be made solvable by the machine. While playing with the thing, I found a Prolog solut...
To Iceland 11 Apr 2011 | 02:38 am
Brave people of Iceland, do not let yourselves be robbed. Better to live a generation of isolation with an intact conscience that allows you to look your children in the eye than to succumb to the EU’...
Thoughts 19 Feb 2011 | 04:21 pm
Back offline from a full day at work. The philosophical thoughts swarming through my mind this morning all gone. It’s amazing how ephemeral deep thinking can be for some. Perhaps it’s the music playin...
