Monthly Archives: July 2005
.NET spreading
More sites must be moving to .NET because I’m starting to see .NET stack dumps when visiting web sites. Today’s occurrence was the second in the week for me. I don’t remember the first site, but this one appeared to … Continue reading
Orange Daylilies = Summer
I like daylilies, and it’s partly because of the name which is descriptive and counter-descriptive at the same time. Presumably, the name is because each bloom lasts for a day before it shrivels up and falls away. However, a group … Continue reading
XBoard and GNU4J
I realized I could run XBoard on my Mac within X11 and let it talk to chessbox_gnu4j via the command line Continue reading
Graphical Prime Factorization
Every so often I like to waste a lot of time trying to solve some practically impossible math problem, like finding a simple proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem or proving Goldbach’s Conjecture. These days I’m trying to find a quick … Continue reading
Mountain Week-end
In an effort to keep up with the Jones’s, Bonnie and I went to the NC mountains for the week-end. The photo is of Bald Mountain, I think. It’s one of the mountains around Lake Lure. I got to use … Continue reading
High-Low at Durham Sectional
Mom and I played every session of the recent Durham bridge sectional. Friday and Saturday we had an amazing run of finishing first overall for all four sessions. Well, “overall” for the 0-200 players, that is. That included a 70+% … Continue reading
Hyco Lake
Bonnie and I went out to Hyco Lake with Beth and Scott last week-end. Much better than owning a boat is having friends who own a boat. The weather cooperated nicely for a nice tour of the lake and swim. … Continue reading