Monthly Archives: May 2008

The Kids Have Been Deported to Louisiana

Saturday morning I flew down to New Orleans to drop off Ellery and Henry for a week with their grandparents (my parents) in Belle Chasse. How did it go? It went so well that people complimented their behavior when we … Continue reading

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Let There Be Light, But Not Like On The Ambulance

While Misty was at yoga this morning I installed a new light fixture in the big main bathroom. Since I’m not writing this from Anne Arundel Medical Center you may pay homage to my mad electrical skillz by showering me … Continue reading

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Sage Makes Me Happier Than Seems Reasonable

I’ve known about the Python-for-mathematics software stack SAGE for a while now, but I hadn’t played with it until today. What happened? I read Vincent Noel’s very good blog entry on replacing Matlab with Python. What I had missed about … Continue reading

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Photos from 2007 Risk Watch at Chapel Forge Elementary School

We (the Bowie VFD Auxiliary) recently came into possession of photos from the 2007 Risk Watch at Chapel Forge Elementary School in Bowie. I staffed the “Dress a Firefighter” station, with the help of Ms. Mary Locker, and I took … Continue reading

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Music Review: Donal Hinely’s “We Built a Fire” and “Giants”

Earlier today I wrote a post about the new Donal Hinely CDs that just came in the mail on Sim’s Facebook wall. I decided that they might make a worthwhile blog post, and I figure that you can’t plagiarize yourself, … Continue reading

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PyPedal Release Candidate 7 Highlights Need for Unit Testing

Many thanks to Matthieu Authier for reporting several bugs, which in turn led to more bugs. The hunt started with broken code in examples/new_amatrix.py, which led to bugs in several subroutines in pyp_nrm, which exposed some small side issues. Notably, … Continue reading

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PyPedal Release Candidate 6 Fixes Logging

I broke logging a while ago and didn’t notice it. Now it;s fixed. I’ve also modified pyp_metrics/renumber() so that it now cleans-up after itself by deleting ID map files when renumbering is complete; if you need to retain the file … Continue reading

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