Here I keep things I saw, sought, lived, and thought — before they seep away.
- Is It Alpha or Is It Luck?
- Moral Hazard in Asset Management
- Branches
- Gold, the Fed, and the Tax on Inflation
- Why I Dislike Dark Mode
- Software Engineering
- Where Do Trading Profits Come From?
- Streaming Real-Time Market Data into Excel: Why RTD Beats Polling an API for Analysts
- Early Memories
- Coding Agents Grow Up
- 2025: The End of the Human Polymath
- Adobe’s Protection Racket
- Hot and cold running water? Not in Phoenix!
- Light Interaction App
- Add a tip?
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Flyby
- Venus with Crescent Moon
- Martian Eclipse (Lunar Occultation)
- Bright Planets: Venus and Mars
- Alcohol is more efficient than sugar
- 100 Free 4k UHD Background Photos
- Today’s LLM Challenge: Create a diagram
- Privacy.com to thwart subscriptions
- Inkscape vs Adobe Illustrator for Vector Graphics
- Current Best Solution for Chat-Enabled Services (March 2024)
- Two Weird Tricks for Presbyopia
- On the new default font: Aptos
- How to Cook Chicken
- Eclipse 2023
- Autumn Equinox
- Anthem
- Breakfast
- Perseid Meteors
- Father Birds: Killdeer
- Father Birds: Doves
- Yale Course Critique (A Brief History)
- Hummingbirds
- Creating Music with FL Studio
- Vultures
- Violin Accessories
- Humans Superseded
- The Truth about Collagen Peptide Supplements
- Violin Bows
- Violin fitting
- How much CO2 does a gas stove add to indoor air?
- I lost weight using two simple tricks (and you can too)
- AI Image Generators
- My war against advertising algorithms
- Supermoon Lunar Eclipse
- How much water is in the air?
- Moon and Venus
- The Immortality Key
- Why We Make Things
- Resuming Violin – Part 1
- My Verbal Degeneration
- Fighting Violin
- Pokemon Go Level 40!
- Book Review: Life at the Bottom, by Theodore Dalrymple
- Learning Violin
- Huckleberries
- Overtourism
- Summer Solstice
- Cow: Grass is always greener on the other side
- Bitcoin Bubble
- On the Primacy of Women
- The Fabulous World of Shareware
- Tax Optimization: Charitable Giving
- Check your dryer vent
- Beginning Violin
- Bubbles
- SmartWalls Are Nearing
- Shooting the Moon
- Climbing Table Mountain
- I like Pandemia
- I saw a Starlink satellite train!
- Coronavirus Birthday Protocol
- Thanks for the COVID-19 reassurance
- Cookie Currency
- Kid Search!
For the amusement of posterity, I here preserved the old website that I built in 1999 … and left here until 2020!