I wrote a Python program. No vibe coding. No AI. Just me, an idea, the keyboard, a couple of hours of coding as time allowed, and finally about an hour’s worth of debugging. In the autumn of 1999, I reread The Lord of the Rings and, for the first time, really studied the Appendices. AppendixContinue reading “A Return to the Shire”
Monthly Archives: July 2026
Maps in the Sky
This afternoon I took my trash over to the dumpsters, looked up in the sky… …and thought, “Those two clouds look like the Falkland Islands!” And they do!
The Strange Case of the Absent Pencil
Yesterday I found myself dwelling on a strange memory from seventh grade. I didn’t do homework for about two weeks because — and this is going to sound dumb — I had no pencils. And I either didn’t know how to or didn’t want to ask my parents to get pencils for me. It actuallyContinue reading “The Strange Case of the Absent Pencil”