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Save the Serifs

Save the Serifs

Warning, this post is going to be about one of the most boring topics possible, font choice. The Washington Post reports the State Department has ordered a shift in font choice from Times New Roman to Calibri. The justification is that a serif font like Times New Roman (serifs are […]

Leibniz’s Boots

Leibniz’s Boots

Gottfried Leibniz was one of the smartest men of his age. And that says a lot considering he lived during the European Enlightenment. He was a master of mathematics, philosophy, and science, among other subjects. He invented calculus, having defined its rules simultaneously with Newton but publishing nine years earlier (which […]

2022

2022

Well that was a year. I guess it was an improvement over the past couple years. Covid is largely under control. Though I’m currently at home sick with it. We also didn’t have a violent insurrection to overthrow the United States government. That’s something. Though we are still seeing the […]

Will Twitter Fail?

With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or three months severance pay, most people will take the pay. Employers often overestimate how much their employees […]

2021

2021

Well that’s it for 2021. It wasn’t great, but it was unambiguously better than 2020. We had vaccines. No presidential election. I completed my Master’s. And no viral videos of celebrities singing Imagine. Anyway, here is my playlist of 2021 music. https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7pqLyuD1XqKngAV7dt0oVj?utm_source=generator