On the blog: First Official Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/20/juneteenth.html #holiday

On the blog: 🍾 Happy Calendar-Changing Day (Belated), 2021 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/03/hny2021.html #holiday #newyear

Short Notice: Appearing on Millenniyule TONIGHT at 7PM New York Time
Sorry for the short notice, I’ve been busy for the holidays, but I’ve been asked to be interviewed on Millenniyule in less than two hours from when I’m posting this. I’m scheduled for 7PM to as late as 9PM New York time.

The livestream will be on this channel (i.e. not my own due to bandwidth issues).

If you miss it, you can get it [at the bottom of this playlist](https://www.youtube.com/ … ⌘ Read more

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Happy (Orthodox?) Pi Day, Tomorrow! https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/04/pi.html #holiday #math #dissent #pi #radix #programming #techtips

We will never know what it’s like to be the person the K-Mart PA system’s 1994 holiday playlist wants us to be.

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Wanted to do so much on todays public holiday but actually I only did some house cleaning and was staying on the balcony enjoying the sun while doing internet stuff most of the time…

Band name of the day: invaders on holiday

It is Christmas day
One of the many things to look forward to each year is, of course, the end of year holidays. Christmas, Festivus, or whatever you call it, the end of December is always a special time. My only complain, and that might be yours too, is that it comes and goes so fast! Kent has finished opening his presents, and somehow it feels “it is all over.” But we waited the whole year for this! We stayed up late wrapping gifts, gifts that are now open, and the “magic” gone. It should not be.

I … ⌘ Read more

Ricky Gervais - Why I’m an atheist
This is an article
written by Ricky Gervais, for The Wall Street Journal back in 2010.

Reproduced entirely here, as SpeakEasy seems not to be keep articles
around long enough. If WSJ does not like what I have done, let me know
and I will remove it, or adapt it to a co … ⌘ Read more

I hate school
When your, almost seven years old, son tells you he hates going to school you worry. It is not the first time that KM tells me he doesn’t like going to school. He goes to a private, Christian school, and his main complain has always being that he doesn’t like to memorize the weekly versicle. I have noticed that this “disliking” normally comes after a weekend, holiday, or similar ‘time off school’ occasion.

I have talked to him, trying to find out if there are other reasons, but haven’t … ⌘ Read more

Google’s Doodles
Google is well known for altering its homepage logos to commemorate a special event or Holidays. They have done it since 1999 —at least, that is the earliest documented year.

This year Olympic Games are not an exception. Google Doodle VIII celebrates the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Below is a loc … ⌘ Read more

A moment in time
Not much is happening lately. At least, not much worth of mentioning. Christmas is coming (yes, Christmas, I do not need to be “politically” correct by calling it “holidays”) and I tend to get a little bit sad just around this time. I know it might sound weird, but I can’t help it.

Time is flying by lately and I do not know whether that’s good or bad. It should be bad all the time, since time is one of the few things that never returns, it can’t be rewinded. But while at work, it … ⌘ Read more

Mid-Autumn Festival, Mooncake!
It is mooncake holiday again! Taken From Travel in Taiwan Festivals, the following “Legends of the Moon”:

Hhou Yi was a great archer and architect, who shot down nine extra suns that had suddenly appeared in the sky and thus kept the earth from being scorched. He also built a palace of jade for the goddess of the western heave … ⌘ Read more