I am against Ideologies. What ideologies, some might ask. All of them, I reply. But how could you be against ideologies while being an environmentalist? How does that work? Well, I’m glad you asked… I am opposed to “Ideologies with a capital I”. Communism, Capitalism, Zionism, Christianity… essentially all dogma. Let’s be clear: that doesn’t… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
This one’s just for fun: I’m on holiday and i felt like making something. So i made a wallet out of an old cassette I had lying around. It’s pretty much just the two halves of the cassette held together with a zip glued on with hot glue. I’m proud! P.S. how much more joy… [Read more…]
April 24, 2012
I made a good decision the other day to waste less time on the internet, its sort of working. I went on a hard bike ride up a steep hill and while i was pedaling hard i felt everything become a little bit clearer. Its a good feeling. I had it a few times growing… [Read more…]
April 14, 2012
To depart a little from my usual themes, I’d like to comment on washing. You see, when I returned from a few days backpacking and threw all my clothes in the washer it struck me that we really overestimate how dirty we get in our day-to-day lives. Even after days of recycling t-shirts and tramping… [Read more…]
March 13, 2012
So I was fortunate enough to visit the Geneva Auto Show. Now normally this isn’t really a prime destination for me. I am what you might call a car-skeptic. Ok maybe that’s too strong a term. I do drive if I must but I always feel that driving is something of a failing – either… [Read more…]
March 8, 2012
An increasing number of environmentalists are raising the problem of increasing population as the new big environmental issue. While i basically agree, i prefer to make the distinction that population in itself is not the issue, so much as the way it seriously exacerbates environmental issues. These include energy supply, food supply, soil depletion, resource… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
I was trying to figure out why people get so upset about gay marriage. After all, it has absolutely no effect on the lives of non-gays. Zero. It is, practically speaking, a change in legal formalities giving people certain rights and responsibilities. So why do people get so worked up considering that the day gay… [Read more…]
February 9, 2012
tl;dr: spyder for osx10.7 package (requires pyside+qt to be installed) I’ve been mucking around with generating actual apps in python. Turns out it’s pretty difficult! My original goal was to create a standalone mac app from Spyder, the scientific development environment for python. The idea would be to create a “real” mac app with no… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
tl;dr – code now availalbe on github I previously posted an optimized version of Craig Reynolds flocking algorithm. Nothing very fancy – simply adding a way to store the boid objects in a grid data structure which makes looking up the distances between boids much faster. I felt the need to do this because there… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
For those unfamiliar, iPython is a great interactive console for Python. I’ve found it very useful for data processing and while developing apps. I particularly appreciate the new qtconsole, which allows you to use a somewhat more user-friendly qt based terminal instead of the system terminal. On mac however i was continuously bugged by the… [Read more…]
May 2, 2012
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