I don’t have any business commenting about the recent Supreme Court decision. I can appeal to the old adage, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” But the envisioned worse-case scenarios might be at an apocalyptic Judgement Day where the Courts, […]
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Today, the Israelis rescued four hostages from captivity in Gaza. This is not what this blog posting is about. The New York Times headline reads “Israel’s Military Says It Rescued Four Hostages.” This is poorly written and shows clear bias. It can be termed propaganda. It is simpler to write […]
The conjunction of two broods of cicadas is going on now. It is called a super-brood. One brood has a 13 year cycle, and the other brood has a 17 year cycle. Using maxima, one can calculate the number of years for this conjunction with the least common multiple function. […]
I write this blog entry on Tuesday April 9, 2024. It is the day after the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024. Today, a software CD that I ordered arrived. The envelope was marked “Fragile: Handle with Care”. Inside, I found a shattered disk, shattered in plastic shards. I ordered […]
SOLAR ECLIPSE APRIL 8, 2024 (45388.500000) 19.000000 -91.207250,36.622630 ELEVEN POINT STATE PARk MOON UT=19.000000 POSITION AZ 206.066919 (206.100000) EL 58.527943 (58.500000) REF USNO
I took the winter off from playing. As the season has warmed, I have returned to the Gateway Arch and I am playing my guitar. There were many fire engines called in response to smoke reported at the top of the Arch. Here scratched on the sideway a few blocks […]
July 9, 1868. Section 3: “No person shall…hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,…,who having previously taken an oath,…, as an officer of the United States,…, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid […]
It’s as easy as 123. Quick reminders. Solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024 Unix epoch end Tuesday, January 19, 2038. 03:14:07 UTC 2038-01-19
Maxima 5.41.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.12 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) is(1200>70*7); (%o1) true