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My Last Dell

I ordered a new PC from Dell last night: one of these cute little Zino things. But, apparently I screwed up and ordered it with Vista 32, instead of Windows 7 x64, like I wanted. So, I immediately called Dell's order support to see if I could change it. They were closed for the evening […]

Dellja Vu

Or: Dude, You're Getting Another Dell! Just like before: order a Dell on Monday night, choose the cheapest 3-5 day delivery, no rush, get a call Wednesday morning saying it will be delivered that day. Assuming they leave it on my porch today, instead of requiring a signature, it's basically a 48 hour process: order […]

Cox–Zucker Machine

The Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line. The algorithm was first published in the […]

Harm

Since I have a seven-day trial of Adobe Character Animator, I made another video with it. Here's Harm. It's no accident all of these faces have the same haircut. The puppets I used here and for Streetlight are all based on the demo characters that come with Character Animator. You do some facial motion capture […]

Grab Your Pitchfork

“He has no historical view. He is only dealing with these issues now, and seems to think the world started when he took office,” a diplomat told BuzzFeed News, pointing to Trump’s remarks and tweets about defence spending. “He thinks that NATO existed only to keep the communists out of Europe. He has a similar […]

Game: Jackson

Just finished the first half of the second volume of the Lord Of The Rings (so... the third 'book'). The second book ends when Frodo and Sam leave the party and head out for Mordor on their own. The third book is about what everybody else does after Sam and Frodo leave. And it starts […]