collin park

The other day I received a gift while shopping at our neighborhood grocery store. It wasn't a gift from Key Market; it was a gift ...

In a previous post and its follow-up I described the process by which I decided that Spot-It! likely used 57 symbols and that it coul...

In a previous post , I mentioned some work with pencil and paper that led me to a certain formula. This post adds a some detail, and I h...

The game of “ Spot It! ” ( blueorangegames.com ) provided an entertaining mathematical and programming puzzle, which I have mostly (I...

Short version: Accident leads to astonishing discovery: Aussie shampoo cleaned up stains on our old bathtub that scrubbing never did. Detail...

So I run Thunderbird on Linux, and the other day at work I noticed thunderbird taking up way too much memory—both virtual and physical, a...

I wanted to connect to my employer's VPN, so I typed "vpnc" with the usual parameters. After entering my password (etc), my...