http://neolefty.com/ Eating the Odds en-us 2010-01-24T23:43:30-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000988.html Here's a really good description of one of the key things that the people I work with are wrestling with right now: Ars Technica: Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility Basically, scientific exploration is relying more and more on computation.... Billy 2010-01-24T23:43:30-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000935.html I've had a question for a while now: Why do people who crusade against a particular "moral evil" so often struggle against it personally and fall prey to it, sometimes very publicly? In my opinion, it happens too often to... Life Billy 2009-07-08T22:02:02-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000932.html Setting: back yard T: "I wish it was pillow day. Where there are pillows everywhere." Dad: "Pillows everywhere?" T: "Yeah, and all the pillows are filled with candy." On not having arms "Without arms you couldn't throw out the compost."... Teresa Billy 2009-06-27T13:00:16-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000914.html (according to Teresa) Put out balloons for birthday parties Reach the sink1 Make a hole in the ground Drink coffee Make a happy face Grow flowers Pull out weeds Eat sour plant2 Make honey water3 And that's all. 1 Without... Teresa Billy 2008-09-23T12:13:14-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000899.html Parental responsibility: resolving disputes. Teresa: Dad, Maya said that difficult is hard. And I said that difficult is easy. Can you please tell the best way? Me: Mm-hmm. Is difficult easy for you? Teresa: Yes.... Teresa Billy 2008-06-07T09:10:16-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000853.html Here is an article that I just read that I love. It describes time as an emergent property of the universe; that is, it's not a fundamental thing—instead, it arises from other, more basic things. I'm not sure what those... The World Billy 2008-01-11T09:49:51-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000848.html Ever since I was little, I liked to see what I could do with my eyes. Cross them (which I learned from Mom), shake them (which I learned from a fellow fourth-grader), focus and de-focus them (which I think I've... Techno-biological Billy 2007-12-26T22:12:30-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000827.html Bahiyyih has passed me the baton of listing ten things I like about myself. I'm reluctant to write such a list; historically, I think I have a rather pessimistic self-view. But maybe that's out of laziness -- going on the... Billy 2007-10-05T13:55:24-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000815.html Me: Can you imagine not having computers? Georgia: Yeah; Laura and Mary didn't. That's right, in Little House on the Prairie, they didn't have computers.... Georgia Billy 2007-07-16T18:48:37-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000813.html We finally got the camera and computer working together again: Billy, Bahiyyih, Teresa, Maya, and Georgia... Images Billy 2007-07-11T23:20:57-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000809.html Images Billy 2007-06-18T11:36:20-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000791.html Here are the fruits of Bahiyyih's and my latest collaboration. To the tune of The first one is the first one: Oh, the fish swim in the ocean The sharks swim in the sea Won't some kindly mer[maid/man] Come and... Tuneless Billy 2007-03-12T00:17:10-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000785.html Billy 2007-02-15T21:46:53-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000765.html It's beard-weather here. Thursday morning I saw a Caddy-style car bump into the back of an SUV at walking speed, maybe 3 MPH. The SUV was fine, but the front grill of the car shattered like glass (and sounded like... Fleeting Billy 2006-12-09T13:49:25-06:00 http://neolefty.org/archives/000762.html Mostly I am writing this entry down because I don't want to forget it. Feel free to read along, but don't feel compelled. Parenting has been a struggle for me, for sure. Sometimes the struggle is to be patient, and... Maya Billy 2006-11-27T23:22:59-06:00