I just read Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star. I had read it in Junior High or High school, sometime in the mid-1970s, and I don’t think I’ve read it since.

Strickland, L.
Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? Math Intelligencer 46, 57–62 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9

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Purchased a paper towel holder from Amazon. The installation instructions were a wonder, but actually installing the rack wasn’t that bad.

Hercule Poirot’s associate, Captain Hastings narrates the book The Mysterious Affair At Styles.

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I got a set of non-transitive Grime dice from UK enterprise Maths Gear.

I have verified Grime dice with a monte carlo simulation, and calculated probabilities combinatorially, now I’m going to try to verify them experimentally.

Wow, so that’s where the shipping department is! I always wondered!

If you try to check in for your United return flight using the URL of your original United flight, you get the weirdest message.

I bought an iRobot i3+ Roomba with Clean Base Automatic Dirt Disposal in January of 2023.

I had to take my car for emissions testing again. I visited Air Care Colorado Fort Collins this time. It was mildly better than the Greeley location.

My laptop’s /etc/hosts file has entries like this:

fe80::46a8:42ff:fe2d:c255 monarcheno1
# eno2 - 10.0.10.1
fe80::46a8:42ff:fe2d:c256 monarcheno2
# eno4 10.0.20.1
fe80::46a8:42ff:fe2d:c258 monarcheno4
# ens5 10.0.40.1
fe80::6a05:caff:fe4a:8ac7 monarchens5