Analyze the Data not the Drivel is a mouthful. This blog needs a short symbolic name. For sometime I have used ADND myself but that's to close to ADHD for comfort. However if we treat ADND as a simple algebraic expression it becomes: $latex ad^2n $ This is better but still not cool! If we … Continue reading Fun with Farsi Text in LaTeX
Category: Diary
My Colon’s Merry Christmas
I have just returned from my second colonoscopy. For all you indestructible young'ins out there a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that basically entails stuffing a camera up your butthole to look for evil-doers. Thankfully you're knocked out during the procedure and when you come to you remember about as much as alien anal probe … Continue reading My Colon’s Merry Christmas
Tipping with Bitcoins
For the last two days my elderly laptop has struggled with the bitcoin-qt client while it downloaded and checked the entire Bitcoin block chain. This is one of the fascinating things about this "currency." Its entire global transaction history is public. It occurred to me that the Bitcoin economy is now large enough to verify basic macro … Continue reading Tipping with Bitcoins
Minnie’s Pictures
Minnie E. Raver 1881-1977 While going through my late mother’s pictures I came across a box of my great-grandmother Minnie’s old photographs. When my great-grandmother died in 1977 my grandmother Hazel took her pictures and stuffed them in her Hoarder’s level junk filled basement.1 After Hazel’s death my mother recovered Minnie’s pictures from Hazel’s hoard and … Continue reading Minnie’s Pictures
Yellowstone and Me
My wife in front of the Roosevelt Gate that marks the northern entrance to Yellowstone. The road to Mammoth Hot Springs and the Lamar valley are open during the winter. Most of the park is snowed under. I have moved so often that I am no longer from anywhere, but if asked, one place, Livingston Montana, … Continue reading Yellowstone and Me
Too Busy to Blog
Blogging is like going to the gym. You tell yourself you're going to do it everyday and then you don't. The last two months have been all about my mother's death and work. Any remaining hours were siphoned off by my other hobbies: photography and reading. Yeah I count reading as a hobby. If we're … Continue reading Too Busy to Blog
More Photographic Waybacking
There are three things I like about funerals: meeting old friends and relatives, unlimited quantities of food and browsing old photographs. A few weeks ago my sister and sister-in-law went through my mother’s closets and found a stash of old photographs that had eluded my frequent attempts to catalog and archive family pictures. I have a … Continue reading More Photographic Waybacking
Evelyn’s Eulogy
Last Saturday, May 11, 2013, I attended my mother's funeral and gave this short eulogy. I will start with an apology. I hope to make it through this without crying. There is a reason husbands, sons and daughters are not encouraged to give eulogies; we don’t always make it through them. Never-the-less I am going … Continue reading Evelyn’s Eulogy
Now for a Nursing Home
Yesterday my mother left the Bozeman Deaconess hospital and went to a nursing home. The week before she fell on the way to a radiation appointment. The fall was serious enough to put her back in the hospital. The poor woman has been in and out of hospitals for six months. She has terminal brain cancer and … Continue reading Now for a Nursing Home
At the Palliative Care Ward
Visiting hospitals is almost as tiring as staying in them. For the last few days my siblings and I have taken turns spending the night with our mother in the Bozeman Deaconess's palliative care ward. She is terminally ill and doesn't want to be alone. Keeping her company is about the only thing we can … Continue reading At the Palliative Care Ward
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 