-
Archives
- March 2023
- January 2022
- December 2020
- July 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- September 2018
- January 2017
- April 2015
- August 2014
- July 2014
- October 2013
- December 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- August 2011
- July 2011
- February 2011
- October 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- December 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- March 2008
- November 2007
- October 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- May 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- January 2005
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
-
Meta
Author Archives: admin
Hitler and Dragonball Z
I’ve been busy lately, haven’t had much time to post anything. Here is a quick post. I ran across this video the other day. It’s a clip from a German movie Downfall, a movie about the last few days of … Continue reading
Trip to Burnet, pt. 2
I mentioned in my last post that there was one other interesting thing that I would mention. Among the various artifacts in the museum was an old desk. Looking at it, it had this sign on the front: Mormons? In … Continue reading
Posted in General
3 Comments
Trip to Burnet
Last Saturday Ryoko wanted to get out of the house and go somewhere. This is actually harder than it seems. It being August in Texas, it’s 95 to 100 degrees every day, the only exception being if it happens to … Continue reading
How to get 92 heads in a row, pt. 2
Two posts ago I showed how many coin flips it would take in order to have a 98% confidence of getting 92 heads in a row (Ã la Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead). The answer turns out to be \(3.874\times … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
5 Comments
Strange Meats
Last Wednesday my family and I returned to Austin from our (so far) annual trip to Japan to see Ryoko’s family. Since Ryoko’s mother passed away last year, this year is one of the important anniversaries of her death where … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
3 Comments
How to get 92 heads in a row
A couple of posts ago I talked about how laughably improbable it would be to get 92 heads in a row on a fair coin. To sum up, the probability is: The probability of this happening is so abysmally low … Continue reading
Posted in Science
3 Comments
The worst of 80’s sci-fi (with some 90’s thrown in)
A few months ago on Sakeriver there was a discussion about the best SF TV series. I submitted the following which I’m reproducing here because I’m lazy: Talking about the best SF series is fun and all, but I personally … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment
3 Comments
People are predictably irrational in actions involving uncertainty
I ran across this page that is an outline for a lecture given by a professor of statistics at Berkeley. The title of his talk is “The top ten things that math probability says about the real world”, but he … Continue reading
Posted in Science
4 Comments
Documents revealed about TaishÅ Emperor
My wife pointed out a very interesting article to me this morning about the TaishÅ Emperor, who was the emperor of Japan from 1912 to 1926. Specifically, the Imperial Household Agency released some of the official records from his reign. … Continue reading
This Sailor Moon thing is a little wierd
Since we speak mostly Japanese at home, most of the children’s books we have for our girls are also in Japanese. Recently we received some older children’s books from another Japanese family whose children are older and have grown out … Continue reading
Posted in General
11 Comments