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Beautiful Retro Rebuild — Windows↓ Linux↑ Dec 2024
It was, originally, a Windows 7 machine. Bought in 2010.
Yesterday, I wiped the disk and installed 2024 Linux Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS.
It’s now a 500GB Linux machine with a DVD drive, SmartCard slot
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Universal Dropdowns in Excel Dec 2024
Plotly Insights Nov 2024
I have built a few Plotly charts and have learned a few tricks along the way.
Reading the docs will get you part of the way there but trial and error is required to go all the way.
App C2 AISC Bolt Capacity using Dash/PythonAnywhere Nov 2024
Gehry+ Oct 2024
- Interview with Gehry (2016)
- Neighbors got really pissed off
- Bedroom in Frank Gehry’s house
- Adelaide Residence
- Corrugated cardboard side chair
- Invigorating scene
- Building the inspiring space
- Best of Frank Gehry slideshow
- Frank Gehry talks with Julian Rose
- A beautiful review of Gehry’s works
- Just pick one
- Philip Johnson Residence
- Farnsworth House
Interval Filter using PyXLL Oct 2024
I built a set of functions demonstrating dynamic filtering and sorting using Excel and PyXLL. The functions determine whether a value is within a numeric interval (closed, open, or any combination).
A video illustrates the performance.
One million filters
Ohtani’s Batting Average Sep 2024
LIGO Anniversary Sep 2024
PyXLL PySide2 CTP ActiveX Sep 2024
I built a full PySide2 menu that allows the selection and presentation of AISC steel properties and the calculation of ASCE wind loads.
Nuclear Threat Aug 2024
What is the perimeter? Jul 2024
Solzhenitsyn Jul 2024
Ruth Fertel Jul 2024
Susan Kare Jun 2024
A short history of “software as a service” June 2024
Recent Updates Jun 2024
Debt in the USA May 2024
Executive Orders May 2024
My Father May 2024
Let’s Cut the Crap Apr 2024
Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth April 2024
100 Prisoner Problems Mar 2024
GeoGebra app Feb 2024
Reflection on Billiards and Math Feb 2024
This inscribed triangle is a periodic billiard trajectory called the Fagnano orbit, named for Giovanni Fagnano, who in 1775 showed that this triangle has the smallest perimeter of all inscribed triangles.
John Smeaton — "Father of Civil Engineering" Feb 2024
AISC Bolt Shear Capacity — Minimum Dimensions Feb 2024
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Short Takes
My Dash apps
My GeoGebra app
What is the most general equation for the area of a triangle?
The Wait calculation
The incessant obsolescence postulate (IOP)
Barnard’s Star and the 'Wait Equation'
IOP counterargument
The amazing arbelos
Barnard’s Star and the 'Wait Equation'
IOP counterargument
Japanese temple geometry
★ Sister Celine — a beautiful life
★ John Lienhard IV on Ingenuity
★ Charles Stutzenbaker, Field Biologist
Neal Stephenson on the OS
A few quotations
Tyler TX weather • 🌡 Steve Fitzgerald
Tyler TX weather • 3-day history
Tyler TX weather • calendar month
Tyler TX weather • graph month
East Texas weather • TAMU
★ All of the water in the world
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