Posts tagged recycling

• Influences: Cronopios and Famas

  Books have accompanied me for all my life, or at least for as long as I can remember. However, my…
  20 Oct, '17

• This time is Calvino

  This happens relatively frequently: I am talking with someone else that doesn’t know me well and, at some point of…
  16 Oct, '17

• On point of view

  Often times we experience mental paralysis: we can only see a problem, a situation or a person from a single…
  21 May, '12

• My approach to presentations

  I give a fair number of presentations per year, some to university students (in classes from 6 to 90 students),…
  21 May, '12

• Publon: my simple publication Python script

  After using PmWiki (PHP wiki software) for nearly five years to maintain my web site I was a bit tired…
  21 May, '10

• Preamble to the instructions on how to wind a watch

  皿 Think of this: when they present you with a watch, they are gifting you with a tiny flowering hell, a…
  7 Apr, '10

• The library of babel by Jorge Luis Borges

  By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters… The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV
  3 Apr, '10

• Rituals

  I start every morning making coffee. For a long time the routine included putting ground coffee in a very small…
  31 Jan, '10

• Back to Python

  I started using Python way back at the end of 1996 or early 1997. I was working in my PhD,…
  7 Oct, '06

• Geotagging memory lane

  Google Maps continues to include some higher resolution images (if not maps) for some parts of the planet. I was…
  6 Apr, '06

• Idea fishing, idea growing

  This month I started working for the School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, where I am supposed to teach, supervise…
  31 Jan, '06