Guys, I hate to say this, but I have a confession. After decades of being a staunch Perl and Ruby zealot, I confess that I… I… I love Python. A year ago, I started my current job at a research lab where Python is the lingua franca next to C. It’s just what the actual …
Author Archives: Shawn
Cold Chopped Veggie Salad
Tonight’s chopped raw veggie salad experiment: SUCCESS. It’s bright, crunchy, and has a touch of heat. Can’t wait until it chills overnight! 1 cucumber, chopped 2 tomatoes, chopped 1 red onion, chopped 1/2 bunch of fresh parsley, finely chopped 1 tsp dried dillweed 1/2 tsp dried oregano 1/2 tsp dried cilantro 1/2 tsp crushed red …
Produce, Express, Vegetate
No real news to post, but it’s a new month and the last night of a holiday weekend, so here’s me at the keyboard. Didn’t really do that much over the weekend, and that’s exactly what I needed. Well, that’s kinda a fib, but whatever. Actually went out a few times and sat among the …
Dumber Faster
Y’know how a quarter-wave stub of coax feedline has interesting properties? Like, if you attach one end to an antenna analyzer and left the other end open at 1/4λ down, then the open circuit looks like a short on the analyzer; zero Ohms resistance. And if you short the end, it looks like an open; …
Tomorrow’s Naïveté, Abroad
Once upon a time, three months ago, I was reading a Rick Steves’ European travel book from 2012 and having predictive visions of what Europe would be like once I finally got there. And I forgot those memories until just now. And damn, they are quaint memories of the future. They just don’t jive with …