Author: John McMahon
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Second ActivityPub Test
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog… …and landed on top of a small gateway to another dimension.
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ActivityPub Test Post
INT. WAR ROOMStrangelove executes an about face from the big board to facethe camera. STRANGELOVEMr. President, I would not rule out thechance to preserve a nucleus of humanspecimens. It would be quite easy… hehheh… (rolls forward into the light) At the bottom of ah… some of our deepermineshafts. The radioactivity would neverpenetrate a mine some […]
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Einstein On Prejudice
“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.” Albert Einstein
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Geezer’s Paradox
You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox @juglugs@mastodon.juglugs.com on Mastodon
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Love and Freedom
“Those who wants to be loved, must want the freedom of the other, because love emerges from it, if I subject it, it becomes an object, and from an object I can not receive love.” Jean-Paul Sartre
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Asimov on the “cult of ignorance”
It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?” None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a […]
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Science has great beauty
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale. Marie Curie
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Thought for yesterday
“Listen, three eyes,” he said, “don’t you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.” Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe I thought of this yesterday when a younger coworker pulled the “I’ve been doing this for years” card on me after asking for help…
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A Solution To The Train Puzzle
In https://bombshelterradioblog.azurewebsites.net/2022/11/28/the-train-puzzle/ I mentioned a nifty puzzle that was shared on Mastodon. Here is how I solved it: I do not believe there is a way to solve for the other cars given the information provided. We do know there are 84 (99-C) people between the car pairs of A+B, D+E, G+H, and J+K. But […]
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The Train Puzzle
https://mathstodon.xyz/@mattp posted an interesting math puzzle on Mastodon yesterday. Since the original was in German, he provided a translation. A train is pulling 11 passenger cars. There are 381 passengers total, and in any 3 consecutive cars there are 99 passengers. How many are in the ninth carriage? https://epsilon-ix.masto.host/@mattp/109411569918653609 https://www.spektrum.de/raetsel/wie-viele-fahrgaeste-sind-im-zug/2071047 is the original article. A […]