So, this happened.  And I have to wonder—are we supposed to be impressed by this fine?  Because I'm pretty sure Phil Jackson isn'...

I don't want to become a downer, I really don't, but when the urge to write hits, I write, and here I am again with another post o...

I watched the Super Bowl.  Well, "watched" might be putting it a bit strongly.  I watched the first part, a very short part, in wh...

This is a problem that briefly entertains me each year around this time, because it's mathematical and I'm me. The question is, ...

Here are a couple of poems.  Sonnets again.  The schtick here is that they concern a pair of Harry Potter characters.  It should be trivial ...

MOAR Q-ING TREE PLZ. Actually, this post only has a little to do with queueing theory.  But I can't help tagging it that way, just ...

(a précis ) This is not a poem, not even a prose poem.  But it shares enough quirkiness with poems I enjoy for me to find it in the spirit...