Some of the sci-fi books I read during my childhood had this great endpaper…

You can find some interesting grafitti on the east side of I-25, just south of exit 262 (Colorado 392, Windsor, CO) in Colorado.

The Peripheral, William Gibson, 2015. ISBN 0670921556.

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, 2000, ISBN 978-0-316-46244-0, Orbit Books print edition 2020.

Another puzzle courtesy the Daily Coding Problem email list.

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1578 [Hard]

This problem was asked by Facebook.

Given an array of numbers of length N, find both the minimum and maximum using less than 2 * (N - 2) comparisons.

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Github repo for my solution.

Across the Space Frontier, Joseph Kaplan, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willey Ley, Oscar Schatchter, Fred Whipple, edited by Cornelius Ryan, Viking Press, 1952.

In a sense, this book is part of a prose exposition, and elaboration of von Braun’s The Mars Project, the technical appendix of Project Mars,

I have a copy from the second printing, June 1953

It snowed at my place the night of October 29, 2023. The next day I saw the most Colorado thing possible.

Possibly the worst booze I’ve ever had.

My roomba, Dobby, got stuck again.