Directed by Quentin Tarantino I need to up by Tarantino game. Directed by Stanley Kubrick Need to step up my Kubrick game, too. Directed by Mel Brooks Studio Ghibli Disney Animated These are only ones I remember well enough to rank, I saw a lot of the others long ago but don t remember them well [ ]
Sometimes in science articles, and in arguments about abiogenesis or evolution on the Internet, a writer will refer to a length of time as a cosmic, geologic, or evolutionary blink of an eye . The length of time varies, but typically the writer means something on the order of a thousand years, the subtly ironic point [ ]
I am not a fan of today s superhero movies, but even I m surprised how few I ve seen. Here s a literal complete list. All four of the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve 4 wasn t as bad as everyone says, 3 was worse than people say, and I don t remember a single thing about 2, other than [ ]
So, my hosting provider, Dreamhost, recently announced that they d be discontinuing support for WSGI. My blog had heretofore been a simple one that I wrote myself, in Python, that used WSGI as the server interface. It was fun and educating to write, and it ran reliably for years, but once they dropped support, I had [ ]
I was bored and decided to try my hand at Altoona-style pizza. It intrigues me that, on the short list of locales that can claim their own style of pizza, Altoona has become one of them. Altoona style pizza is simple: Sicilian crust, sauce, salami, sliced green bell pepper, topped by (brace for impact) American [ ]
How the Seven Deadly Sins are represented in Harry Potter. Pride = Hermione Envy = Ron Wrath = Harry Sloth = Neville Avarice = Draco Gluttony = Dudley Lust = Ginny
So, thanks to this nice little pandemic, I have a little more free than usual, and I thought it would be a good time to take in a long series. So I chose Robert Jordan s Wheel of Time. Big mistake. It actually wasn t bad as far as quarantine fodder goes. Quarantine books don t really need [ ]
Parlay is a C library for laying out out paragraphs to an in-memory buffer. This current version is 0.1. Summary Parlay does one thing. It take some text (it could be plain text or a simple markup language), lays that text out in a paragraph, and creates an RGBA image of that paragraph in memory. [ ]
Last night I had a dream, and I don t remember why but at some point in the dream I uttered the word mathish . In the dream, it occurred to me that the English suffix -ish might be descended from the same root as the Greek suffix -ικος (aka, -ic , a suffix which we borrowed into [ ]
Yeah, I spent an entire Saturday upgrading this blog to use Python 3. What a great use of my time . This includes about 5 hours I spent switching the site to use FastCGI as the entry point instead of Passenger, only to switch it right back to Passenger. (Kind of glad I did, actually, as [ ]