Notes and Queries

2026

October 11 The Proof in the Code
September 20 Threats
September 12 What Would Change Your Mind?
July 28 Weinersmith's Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home
May 25 On the Incomplete Calculation of Volume
April 10 Read in February 2026
April 10 Romilly and Trédé - Petites leçons sur le grec ancien
April 10 Young on Natural Pain Relief
January 31 Read in January 2026
January 1 2025 Reading

2025

December 14 Cuconato on Quinean Indispensability and Commitment
November 30 Hinst on Quine
March 8 Asymmetries in the Current Canada-US Conflict
February 9 Shredding Your Constitution in a New York Minute
February 8 Recently Read
February 2 Back to Posting, Perhaps

2021

January 23 Getting Trump Wrong

2020

August 27 Proust, again
August 26 Nothing
February 15 Drawing Stemmas With Tikz

2017

December 28 Back

2014

August 31 August Links
August 1 July online
June 30 June Link Roundup
June 1 May Link Roundup
May 4 April on the web
March 31 March Links
March 30 A Reading List for Computational Stemmatology
February 28 February Links
February 12 January Links
January 12 Books of 2013

2013

October 12 Woolf on Writing
April 29 Site reboot

2011

October 13 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)

2010

October 16 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
August 7 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
June 26 Recently read: Coming up for air edition (imported from explananda.com)
March 3 Oliver (imported from explananda.com)
February 12 Recently read: Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (imported from explananda.com)
January 17 Recently read: Clearing out the Backlog Edition (imported from explananda.com)

2009

December 31 Recently read: Remembrance of Things Past (imported from explananda.com)
December 29 Recently read: Two books on philosophy and children (imported from explananda.com)
December 22 Recently read: Academic Graffiti (imported from explananda.com)
December 9 Remove .pyc files as a step in the test process
December 7 Recently read: Pink Brain, Blue Brain (imported from explananda.com)
December 6 Dynamically Constructing "Or" Queries with Django's ORM
December 6 Recently read: Like Life (imported from explananda.com)
November 29 Recently read: In the Land of Invented Languages (imported from explananda.com)
November 28 A very, very gentle introduction to the Linux Command Line
November 10 Recently read: The Philosophical Baby (imported from explananda.com)
November 7 Recently read: Thank you, Jeeves (imported from explananda.com)
November 1 Spooky UI story one day too late
August 3 Recently read: Sowing Crisis (imported from explananda.com)
August 1 Forget shorter showers (imported from explananda.com)
July 17 Cronkite (imported from explananda.com)
July 17 Facebook (imported from explananda.com)
June 29 Welcome to "Notes and Queries":" An Occasional Blog."
May 22 Recently read: The Code Book (imported from explananda.com)
May 12 On carrying it around in your head (imported from explananda.com)
May 9 Recently read: Lords of Finance (imported from explananda.com)
May 7 Recently read: Hella Nation (imported from explananda.com)
May 4 Recently read: Spoiled (imported from explananda.com)
May 3 Recently read: A Continent for the Taking (imported from explananda.com)
May 2 Recently read: The Will to Whatevs (imported from explananda.com)
April 29 Recently read: The Mycenaean World (imported from explananda.com)
April 27 Recently read: Fear and Loathing (imported from explananda.com)
April 18 Recently read: The Epic of Gilgamesh (imported from explananda.com)
April 13 Recently read: Consider the Lobster (imported from explananda.com)
April 12 Recently read: Zen Meditation in Plain English (imported from explananda.com)
April 11 Recently read: My Horizontal Life (imported from explananda.com)
April 10 Recently read: Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (imported from explananda.com)
April 9 Recently read: The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (imported from explananda.com)
April 8 Recently read: The Great Brain (imported from explananda.com)
April 7 Recently read: More Than Just Race (imported from explananda.com)
April 6 Recently read: Sexual Fluidity (imported from explananda.com)
April 5 Recently read: Personal Days (imported from explananda.com)
April 4 Recently read: Taliban (imported from explananda.com)
April 3 Recently read: Dreaming in Code (imported from explananda.com)
April 2 Recently read: The File (imported from explananda.com)
March 11 Recently read: Cradle to Cradle (imported from explananda.com)
March 4 Recently read: Descent Into Chaos (imported from explananda.com)
February 18 Recently read: The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (imported from explananda.com)
February 17 Recently read: Lust in Translation (imported from explananda.com)
February 11 Recently read: Rembrandt's Nose (imported from explananda.com)
February 9 Recently read: I Was Told There'd Be Cake (imported from explananda.com)
February 6 Recently Read: Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (imported from explananda.com)
February 3 Recently read: Talent is Overrated (imported from explananda.com)
February 2 Recently read: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (imported from explananda.com)
January 30 Recently read: The Forever War (imported from explananda.com)
January 28 Recently read: My Man Jeeves (imported from explananda.com)
January 27 Recently read: Ways of Seeing (imported from explananda.com)
January 25 Encounter (imported from explananda.com)
January 22 Recently read: Gomorrah (imported from explananda.com)
January 18 Recently read: Panic (imported from explananda.com)
January 13 Recently read: French Kiss (imported from explananda.com)
January 11 Recently read: Bonk (imported from explananda.com)
January 10 Recently read: Through a Window (imported from explananda.com)
January 6 Recently read: The Iron Cage (imported from explananda.com)
January 4 Broadway (imported from explananda.com)
January 3 Recently read: The Science of Orgasm (imported from explananda.com)
January 1 Recently read: The Principles of Uncertainty (imported from explananda.com)

2008

December 16 Recently read: An Anthropologist on Mars (imported from explananda.com)
December 13 Recently read: No one belongs here more than you (imported from explananda.com)
December 9 Recently read: A Small Corner of Hell (imported from explananda.com)
December 9 Recently read: Emotional Awareness (imported from explananda.com)
December 9 Recently read: In Search of Memory (imported from explananda.com)
December 9 Recently read: The Now Habit (imported from explananda.com)
December 7 Recently read: In Praise of Slowness (imported from explananda.com)
December 1 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
October 18 One step campaign finance reform (imported from explananda.com)
October 15 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
September 10 The MTA disappoints me, again (imported from explananda.com)
September 3 Recently read: "Heads in the Sand" (imported from explananda.com)
August 20 Recently read: "Emotions Revealed" (imported from explananda.com)
August 18 Mandoo party your way to a freezer full of cheap eats (imported from explananda.com)
August 17 Recently read: "Mindless Eating" (imported from explananda.com)
August 15 Agedashi tofu (imported from explananda.com)
August 12 Recently read: "In Xanadu" (imported from explananda.com)
August 10 Recently read: "Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior" (imported from explananda.com)
August 9 Recently read: "The Dark Side" (imported from explananda.com)
August 8 Recently read: "Learning Python" (imported from explananda.com)
August 6 Recently read: Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" (imported from explananda.com)
July 30 Recently read: Pinter's "The Homecoming" (imported from explananda.com)
July 28 Recently read: Dalrymple's The Last Mughal (imported from explananda.com)
July 27 The Monty Hall Problem (imported from explananda.com)
July 25 G. Polya's How to Solve It (imported from explananda.com)
July 23 Pardon me (imported from explananda.com)
July 16 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
July 13 Recently read: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians (imported from explananda.com)
July 9 Recently Read (imported from explananda.com)
June 28 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
May 27 Recently read: Daniel Radosh's Rapture Ready! (imported from explananda.com)
April 28 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
April 24 Battlestar Galactica: A complaint (imported from explananda.com)
April 17 Knee-slapping (imported from explananda.com)
April 10 It could only happen anywhere (imported from explananda.com)
April 9 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
March 23 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
March 12 The ancient art of nasal irrigation (imported from explananda.com)
February 27 Decree (imported from explananda.com)
February 4 Moral of the story (imported from explananda.com)
February 1 Make over (imported from explananda.com)

2007

December 18 Coltrane Choi, R.I.P. (March 1993 - December 2007) (imported from explananda.com)
December 6 The People's Symphony (imported from explananda.com)
November 24 Korean cuisine day! (imported from explananda.com)
November 18 Aristotle for autodidacts (imported from explananda.com)
November 17 Vertical lines, horizontal lines and a pink fire escape (imported from explananda.com)
November 16 Recently read: Flatbush: The Heart of Brooklyn (imported from explananda.com)
October 26 You'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself (imported from explananda.com)
October 14 E-String mp3 (imported from explananda.com)
September 23 Pictures not taken (imported from explananda.com)
September 8 Aristotle on proper weightlifting technique (imported from explananda.com)
September 7 Rant fizzles (imported from explananda.com)
August 25 Recently read: Paul Wells' Right Side Up (imported from explananda.com)
August 22 Summer light/winter light (imported from explananda.com)
August 21 Recently read (Catching up edition) (imported from explananda.com)
May 14 Missed by inches (imported from explananda.com)
April 30 Chronicles of the pathologically courteous, Part XCVIII (imported from explananda.com)

2006

November 14 Aristotle's What's Cheap and Free in Cancun and the Yucatan (imported from explananda.com)
November 1 After you've gone (imported from explananda.com)
October 23 Bottoms of trousers rolled? Check. Dare to eat a peach? Check. Walk upon beach? Check. Mermaids singing, each to each? Check. (imported from explananda.com)
October 22 Fitness blogging ("Look like a tool yet persist" Edition) (imported from explananda.com)
October 20 Hume on wood (imported from explananda.com)
October 18 Simple eats: Salmon, rice and arugula salad (imported from explananda.com)
October 16 What do you want me to prove next? (imported from explananda.com)
August 24 His crib was in Athens, yo (imported from explananda.com)
August 20 To the stairmaster machine at the gym, which I suspect harboured doubts about whether I could climb 400 flights in an hour (imported from explananda.com)
August 16 Recently read (imported from explananda.com)
August 8 Modification brings sign into alignment with local sensibilities (imported from explananda.com)
August 8 Of Priests and Piracy (imported from explananda.com)
July 25 On the relation between testicles and vocal cords, according to Aristotle (imported from explananda.com)
July 19 Characters (imported from explananda.com)
July 14 Howl (imported from explananda.com)
July 11 Diocles of Carystus and the cucumbers of Antioch (imported from explananda.com)
July 10 Fitness blogging (imported from explananda.com)
June 30 The best tragic style (imported from explananda.com)
June 26 Like the anus of a starfish (imported from explananda.com)
June 16 Sucka! (imported from explananda.com)
June 14 The relevance of her pleasure (imported from explananda.com)
June 13 Lasus and the Lipogram (imported from explananda.com)
May 30 Did Aristotle really not know anyone who could wiggle his or her ears? (imported from explananda.com)
May 3 Wheee! (imported from explananda.com)
April 28 On the ancient recognition of the problem of beer goggles (imported from explananda.com)
April 22 Aristotle on menstruation and mirrors (imported from explananda.com)
March 5 Bury Me Not (imported from explananda.com)
February 18 PSA: Sony sucks (imported from explananda.com)
February 5 A documented ear-span of over 12 inches (imported from explananda.com)
February 3 Overheard in the gym (imported from explananda.com)
February 2 Ice ice baby (imported from explananda.com)
January 10 Baby Spinach and Avocado Salad (imported from explananda.com)

2005

October 13 Here comes the flood (imported from explananda.com)
July 19 An old-fashioned alarm clock (imported from explananda.com)

2004

July 10 Recently Read (imported from explananda.com)
April 29 Kataperdomai (imported from explananda.com)
April 12 Easter Memories (imported from explananda.com)
February 2 Berman (imported from explananda.com)
February 1 Aristophanes (imported from explananda.com)

2003

November 18 I am Job (imported from explananda.com)