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chivalry

Sean’s become more and more interested in fencing ever since he took a few classes with Piedmont Park and Rec last summer. He’s now an enthusiastic student of Maestro Harold Hayes at the Pacific Fencing Club in Alameda. I enjoy going after work to admire Maestro Hayes’ teaching style, imagining how it might translate to… Continue reading →

searchin’ searchin’ for ma bay bee

I was a fan of Amazon’s A9 search engine, until they silently switched from Google to Micro$oft (greased palm no doubt). Still, it’s amazing how different search tools find and present infomation (rather than searching three times in Google, try two other engines). Some engines use “clustering” or hierachical key word nodes, while others allow… Continue reading →

music to the heart

Heard a song entitled “Why I Do These Foolish Things” by the Magicians (Villa Records, 1964), a local Bay Area band, which strongly brought back the same exotic attraction I experienced when listening to the Miracles “Who’s Loving You” (the B-side of “Shop Around”) back in high school (or was it 8th grade). I listened… Continue reading →

snail (friend of boy’s surface)

Christopher and I were discussing the intersection of surface topology (we both preferred the left as puffier) and inflationary cosmology (based on the recent results from WMAP). CR felt this further undermined the “universe as white hole” approach, comparing it to nested russian dolls. I suggested it was more like Boy’s surface, which got us… Continue reading →