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About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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Reading and recently read
- Essential C# 6.0 M Michaelis with E Lippert.
- Unity 5—From Zero to Proficiency (Foundations) P Felicia. An entire book for what I expected to spend two hours to lecture on.
- Programming in Lua, Fourth Edition R Ierusalimschy. Easy to read and understand, good examples.
- The biblatex Package—Programmable Bibliographies and Citations P Lehman with P Kime, A Boruvka & J Wright. Somehow it is difficult to figure out exactly what to do just from reading the manual. Reading the source is required.
- The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition J Schell. One of Randy Pausch’s students. It shows. Good stuff.
- C# Programming in Easy Steps M McGrath. Now this was a complete waste of time and money.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Trauma Queen The diary of a paramedic in Edinburgh—distilled life.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- The darling buds of May A brace of young girls contemplating the world.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Ting och Tankar Archaeologists everywhere!
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And squid. Lots of squid.
- Halfway There My students were (almost) never quite as clueless as professor Zeno's.
- Bad Science Ben Goldacre keeping science journalists honest. The pseudoscientists just don't care.
- James Randi Educational Foundation Fighting against the deluders to help the deluded.
- Piled Higher and Deeper Mike Slackenerny, that's me. Free food, anyone?
- Sinfest God, the Devil, Buddha, pot-smoking bacon-eating pigs, cool babes, …
- The Pain—When will it end? Thankfully, at least death is guaranteed.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
2 comments:
Yeah! One of my favourites is Olaus Magnus's 16th century map of Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Full of cool little details, like the wolverine squeezing between two close-set trees to get the food out of its digestive tract and become able to eat some more...
Yes! In Palazzo Vecchio in Florence there is a room with the walls covered with maps of all the world known in the late 15th Century and I spent I don't know how long there studying in particular the map of Scandinavia, musing over how some places had been important already then, and others were important then now have become back waters.
The museum book shop in the palace had a very expensive, nice-looking book about this map room, but unfortunately they had not thought of photographing the maps at sufficient resolution that you could make out any details, so I forewent buying the book.
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