Chronicles of Harry

You know, it's a commonly taught mnemonic that the initials of the great lakes, when reordered, can spell the word HOMES.

An argument I've gotten into several times on the internet regards why psychological trauma occurs.

And yes, it limits to 1.

So when Kappa unpacked her boxes of books last year, there's two boxes she didn't open.

So I a few months ago I noticed that on John St there is now a pho restaurant called "Pho John St".

It's out!

Instead of saying "the trail has gone cold", we should say "the trail has gone warm".

So joshuazelinsky recently sent me a link to this paper and wow!

So, New York City recently got rid of the Metro Card (the card readers are still there, so if you have one it's still usable for now, but you can no longer get a new one nor refill your existing one) and replaced it with the OMNY card.

Someone else has written about Snake!

Hey, they finally put up the public version!

People keep needlessly adding vowels to things, and I think it'd be better if they didn't.

It seems PAMS never actually told me when they published my paper with Andreas, seems it went out (or at least up) in September.

We're down to just 120 books left!

So, I have recently been reading/thinking a bit about central groupoids.

I never properly wrote about this question here -- only obliquely referred to it here with the text "proving it seems annoying" -- but now it has an answer!

Imagine if someone organized a big festival to celebrate slugs.

The "numbers rant" is someting I've posted various places on the internet in the past, but it seems like I've never posted it here.

But that time it involved ping pong comments

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, the idea of natural units is that you can create a "natural" system of units, determined by physical constants, by declaring that certain dimensioned physical constants should be equal to 1.

Inspired by seeing this old article on Hacker News, here's a challenge for you: In the (current) NYC subway system, find two stops A and B such that to get from A to B, you need to take 4 trains.

So, remember this?

So, last summer, I learned from HK about the horeshoe crabs in New York City.

Huh, I never posted about this, did I?

So, here's something that had bugged me for a long time.