10000 Years Married
Being married on 101010 puts binary in a special perspective. And, clearly, I am that sort of nerd who takes great joy in the fact that my wedding date is the answer to the universe. (101010 is 42 in binary.)
With the binarial perspective, celebrating anniversaries in binary means that every power of two is noteworthy as it means a new digit. So, today marks 10000 years married to the love of my life. It will be 2042 that the marriage counter ticks up another digit.
October 9th, 2026
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Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-2
Net Elo Change: -12
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- October 9, 2024 (2 posts)
- October 9, 2023 (1 post)
I lost most of my afternoon wrestling with the home server. I tried resizing some partitions, and it broke the boot process, which turned into a real ordeal. Thankfully, no data was lost, but it was a frustrating way to spend the day.
October 8th, 2026
Quantum of Solace (2008)
October 7th, 2026
Ted Lasso Season Finale
I had to go look up the full poem from the Ted Lasso season finale.
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purseto buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
—Mary Oliver
October 5th, 2026
Analogy : Thinking :: Motor : Car
I greatly enjoyed listening to this lecture about cognition and analogical thinking. Jump to 13:43 for when he starts talking.
Update:
After the lecture I was scrolling YouTube again and I saw that this is the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. Which, (A) makes sense, and (B) has honestly been on my list to read for more than a decade.
I guess I need to finally dive into that massive tome... maybe. We'll see.
October 4th, 2026
I have no idea why. My wife and I have tried Peaky Blinders a few times and bounced off it. But we picked it back up this week and we're in. It finally landed.
Don't mind me. Just coding some on the blog. Here are my dogs as compensation for cluttering your feed.
The House of the Vestals by Steven Saylor
I've read this series since high school. I picked this one back up randomly and it was lovely to return to the world of Gordianus the Finder. This wasn't the one I meant to pick up, as this one is a series of short stories, but it was still a fun and quick read.
